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I think I would need better electrical to get a larger amplifier after seeing your responses. Now to the next issue, I need a signal processor. The factory amp is crossed over and mixes bass to the fronts, while feeding some midbass back to the subwoofer. I've been putting the sloppy bass off as just being a 15", but I know it wasn't this bad when I had an 18. My car uses a canbus system to control volume. From the front comes the canbus signal, as well as flat untouched left and right audio into the amp. My options would be to take the flat signal wired to a volume control for the subs, or a signal processor. For option 1, how would I wire it up? The signal coming into the amp is low level, so would I just wire those into RCAs and plug them into a PAC-LC1 which I already have? Option 2 being a DSP, looking online I can't seem to get the same information from two different units. Some say they rebuild bass, some say they sum the signals, etc. Option 1 is cheaper as I have everything I need, if it works, but I would have to control the bass all the time. Option 2 would give me level control normally, but costs more.

I currently have the IA 10.1 amp and a 15 inch Death Penalty with dual two ohm coils. I was worried about my electrical so I ordered a 1200w amp to be safe. My stock electrical holds at 15.2v at full tilt. It spikes down to 14.9 but quickly recovers due to the smart alternator, which is rated at 150 amps. The subwoofer definitely can handle more power. So my options would be to buy another 10.1 and strap them at 1 ohm or sell the 10.1 and buy a larger amp, DC audio 2K, or buy two other amps and strap them at 1 which would look good. Don't want to spend too much but I know another 10.1 is 400.

So 1200 to ~2500 wouldn't be any different to the ear? As for a battery, my alternator responds very quickly but I do get very slight dimming. Would a battery solve that?

Correction!! It's dual 2 ohm. I confused my self with what each amp will see when strappd. The subwoofer is a dual 2 ohm and I have the 10.1 at 1 ohm.

I wouldn't really want to spend more than 400 if 400 works. .5 would run fine to the 10.1 correct?

Has anyone used a Duracell Platinum AGM battery before? It's the largest AGM I can fit under my hood, 94r. Sam's club has them for $169; http://www.samsclub.com/sams/auto-grp-94r-h7-agm-36-mo-free/prod9510086.ip?utm_campaign=bazaarvoice&utm_medium=SearchVoice&utm_source=AskAndAnswer&utm_content=Default Ford put the smallest battery possible in my car to save weight, I'm thinking they counterbalanced that by using a 150A alternator. There are two pieces that hold the battery in place that, once removed, accept a 94r. Should I go for this battery or does anyone have any other suggestions?

Just realized I messed up the speaker wires on the inside, wrong spots on two and two are over the washer, oops!

Been off the forums and out of the car audio word for a while now. Decided I want some more bass in my 2014 escape titanium. It has the factory Sony 10 speaker system but I need more. I originally decided on a xcon 15 and a hifonics brz1200 amp. The next day I go tab place the order and the black and blue sale starts. Now I have a death penalty 15 and ia10.1 amp on the way! I have every thing wired in the car now, 0 Guage from the battery, 0 Guage ground, and a pac ls1 up front. Found a turn on lead from the rear fuse box, and spliced into the Sony amp in the rear as well. When first checking the car to see if it can handle a stereo I found that it has a 150 amp alternator and idles at 15 volts. With the car off it sits at 13.4 volts. My next step is to build the box. I found the requirements online and then found this box http://www.srtforums.com/forums/f40/official-free-ported-box-plans-56k-no-435910/#/forumsite/21161/topics/435910?page=1. Would this one work well? It is the 4.4 cubes at 32 hz one most of the way down. I wanted to go with a larger box since I will be running the dp at 1200 watts rather than the 2000 rated. I hope the lead time for bnb doesn't take too long. Pictures to come this weekend.

Got everything wired up today. All I need now to finish is the amp and subwoofer. Hopefully this week! Here are some pictures for now. Start!: Engine bay, so many covers! Like the look of the dash in this car: Center console: Voltage meter and volume control: Speaker wires going to where the amp will be: Inside the box: All the wires ready to go: There was a perfect channel for the power wires to go under the seat, tight but not too tight: Amp will mount on the side of the box here: Box, tools still fit in the back, was hoping they would: Grounds under the hood, black is factory: Yeah that's a full size battery stuffed in there:

So I don't exactly know how, but my Galaxy note 4 had two google accounts on it. One was @gmail.com, and the other was @psu.edu. They are both the same account, just an alias. But my phone treated them as separate accounts and stored my calendar and contacts all on the @psu address. Now I factory reset my phone because it started to slow down. I go to log in and I put the @psu account in, it logs in the @gmail one. Okay, it must just want me to use both again. So I go to log in the @psu one as well, it doesn't do anything because the gmail one is already logged in. TL:DR my phone used to see two separate gmail accounts but now it sees one as an alias and only syncs the gmail account. All my data is on the psu account, HELP!

Box looks great, but forgot to take pictures of it. But here are some pictures of my wires. All Cadence wire, 8 gauge for the speakers, and 4 gauge for ground and power. I'm having the 4 gauge come off the other side of the circuit breaker which has 0 gauge. The ground will go to a seat bolt sanded off, unibody so nothing better. Put paste on the lugs, then filled them with solder, reheated the solder and stuck the heated wire in. Used a grinding wheel to take big chunks of solder overflow off, and the buffing wheel to smooth it out. Then put heatshrink on everything. Also threw in a picture of my nitro trucks since they were right there, another hobby of mine

Little update, no pictures right now will maybe get some tonight. Got a 6 foot poplar dowel 1 3/8 diameter for the bracing. Cut it and put them on the long port wall to the opposite side of the box, top to bottom, and front to back. I've never used bracing in any other box I've built, even in my 8 cube box for my 18 build. So I'll see what kind of difference it makes. Used 2 cans of rustoleom(sp?) bed liner on it last night. Plan for tonight is to get the 8 gauge soldered and ready to go on the box. I plan on drilling four holes and putting bolts through the box as speaker terminals. I've used this before and like the looks and functionality of them. This weekend I hope to put the box in and wire the circuit breaker up with my 0 Guage, then cut and solder the 4 gauge to where the amp will be. After that I'll just be waiting for my order to come. Given the 2-4 weeks build time my order should come next week or the following week. Hopefully I have some subwoofer and amp porn next week for you all.

I have just about every accessory for the router except a circle jig. Really no need for it up until now. A bit and wire worked suprsingly well, the hole was an eight larger than its supposed to be but it should work. A circle jig will be on the list for the next enclosure build for sure though. How is bed liner applied? Is it just from a can or can you get it for a spray gun? I was hoping to use my new automotive gun but I have a texture sprayer as well I could use. I am very happy with how the box turned out, birch is a thousand times better to work with than mdf. My last enclosures out of mdf looked awful compared to this one. And the 22ply double baffle looks really nice with the rounded edge

Finished the box today. Put the back and one side on yesterday. Then the last side, port, and top on today. Got it all sanded down and rounded the corners off. used a drill bit, router, and a piece of 12 gauge wire to cut the circle out and it turned out pretty well. Biscuits make for clean lines:) Port is down right now, filling in a few seams with glue to be sure they're air tight. Now after finshing the box, I don't know if I want to paint it or stain it. My original idea was to just seal in the natural woodgrain. After all the sanding the vener came through in some places and I don't think a stain would look good. So I'm thinking either just paint it matte black, or a really dark stain. Ideas?

Anyone ever play around with the IR extenders? I'm using my xbox as one right now, my onkyo receiver and directv receiver are downstairs in a stereo room. All the cables are ran down there from the xbox then back to my tv. The remote works great from my room. Now when I try and set the same thing up in the kitchen with a top rated IR extender kit from amazon and the same model IR eye I used for my xbox, it doesn't work. Does anyone know of any good kits or what my problem may be?

Bought a sheet of birch today, a-2 grade! Using the box design from the link above I took the pieces and put them in a program called "cut sheet". It takes your pieces and wood size and arranges them for best use of wood and or least cuts. Really makes it easier to cut big sheets up. Except when you make mistakes and put a piece as 20 x 14.75 rather than 30 x 15.75. I was able to catch the mistake before I got too far, but still had to add a strip to the back of the box. I used a jointer along with biscuits and glue to put the pieces together. Got half of the pieces together today, I plan on finishing the box up tomorrow after these pieces dry. Here is the port wall; Front and bottom of the box; Double layer top piece. Glue it like crazy then took a cordless nailer and threw some nails to hold it since I was using all my other clamps. Nails will be on the inside of the box so you won't see them once it is together; And I reluctantly show you the back piece, put eight biscuits in there so it should hold well. After some sanding it should look just fine. After the box is all together I am going to sand any uneven joints with a belt sander, then take a router along all the edges to round them. For a finish I am either thinking of staining or just sealing the natural wood color with polyurethane.

Any one know where and when split competitions will be? Was planning a trip for the first week of March or in the summer. Sbn would be nice but my schools spring break is the first week of march.

Double post please delete! Dumb penn state wifi.

Double post my bad!

For sale is an image dynamics ctx6.5cs component set. I ran these of my Memphis amp for a few months. Includes everything that came in the box new. Only signs of use are from the mounting screws. Asking 100 plus shipping.

for sale is a barely used 15" ssa icon d1 bought early this year during the tax sales. used it for two weeks and my amp fried. (mosfets seperated from heatsink) no money for a new amp so im selling on here. looking for 200 plus shipping, pm for a quote. using email or text would be faster 814860onenine0eight. coil is perfect. my ebay has 100% positive with 130 transactions. will add pictures when I get home today!

I just installed the ctx65cs component set running of an old Memphis amp. They are seeing 55rms and I am not happy with the sound. Tweeters sound muddy whenever the bass hits, and the mids are severely lacking. I've tried everything on the amps adjustments and every level position for the tweeters, -3, 0, +3. The only way they can sound good is with the gain turned down to where they can't keep up with my subwoofer. Before, I ran infinity reference 6x8s and they had more bass, clearer highs, kept up with the subwoofer, and sounded much better than these. And they were running off stock head unit power. I tried bridging them and they sounded the same. What am I doing wrong?

What kind of delays if any should I expect due to the Black Friday sales? Is there any expected time for my to be complete? Order #5178

Not buy retail. Two Rockford fosgate p2 12s and a soundstream amp. Port noise like a jet engine and the amp overheated daily.

I will definitely post some pics. Just need my friend to buy my 18 then this install will be under way. I'll be going for a clean install with this one so hidden amp and carpeted box. Are there any predesigned enclosures for the gcon? I don't see any on the website.