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  1. Posted

    Just port that faital 8 you have in the door. Probably around 70hz or so....just a guess but knowing exactly which would help.

    I bought the neo pro 10s instead of the faitials. The neo pros seemed to have a great following. Right now the aurum cantus ac165/50c2c s are in the doors. It took quite awhile to set the crossovers perfectly but they sound pretty good atm.

    Although I have a gap between the 63 hz low pass for the subs and the 80 hz high pass for the mids.

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  2. Posted

    Looks good!! What's gonna be the finish?

    Thanks :) Port is going to be painted white. I have some black leather that matches my interior fairly well for the front, and I don't think I have enough leather to do the sides too. So probably black carpet on the side beauty panels.

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  3. Posted · Edited by SacredTanakh

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    worked from 10am yesterday to 12am today and got it playing. Its extremely loud, but it doesn't play the lows as well as I had hoped. I think once its sealed off a bit more it will get better, plus one of the woofers hasn't been broken in. So far I'm pretty happy with it, but now I need sound deadener for sure.

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  4. Posted

    Aaron has an XCON 18" right now, in his SQ ride, and I have a single Evil 18" on 4k in my Family vehicle. Right now i'm louder. smile.png

    We are in the process of putting together the SSA tahoe though. Going to wall it off with 6 15" Evils we think in a 4th order on around 25k-30k power. Work in progress.

    Oh you guys have switched it up a bit, Looking forward to seeing the SSA Tahoe though. Should be intense! :3

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  8. Posted

    Box turned out a little smaller then I wanted because of the port being double baffled, and more displacements then I anticipated. Its about 6.4 cubes per woofer, 5.5 cubes for the port, tuned to 30hz.

    All that's left to cut is the front baffle, which will be double baffled as well with a flush mounted holes for the woofers.

    It took about 7 sheets of wood for all this.

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  9. Posted

    My friend had similar issues with his kenwood single din, but it would also occasionally send huge pops. Even if we had the gain all the way down on the amps it would burst out the subs and door speakers very loudly. Also while playing the bass would flutter and sound distorted. I checked everything you checked, and the only thing that worked was putting a new head unit in.

    So If I were you I'd save anymore time, and do an early upgrade to whatever head unit you desire :P

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  10. Posted · Edited by SacredTanakh

    i would think the port would only need to have the same cross-sectional area. shape shouldn't matter. so if you do some maths and make the rectangular section of the port have the same area as the rear section of the port (the part along the slanted portion of the wall is a parallelogram) you'll be fine.

    this is why you use 45's in the corners for slot ports typically.

    That's what I was thinking, I ended up making the port as shown above but double baffled with a slant on the back port so that both ends of the port are the same overall length.

     

    Btw anybody know the easiest way to get a 2 70 pound 18s in a flush mounted wall haha?

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  11. Posted

    How many subs?

    IIRC, you don't want to have any uneven planes in the enclosure, at all. LOL. Example, if the top is angled, then you want the bottom angled the same degree. You may cause damage to your subs if you go the route you are going.

    I've never heard it would be a problem to put an angle like that. That being said I'm going to do it anyway cause it's already built, and it's for 2 18s.

    I believe it has something to do with how the subs are pressurizing the internal enclosure. I've seen it happen in person lol.

    Hmm well there are lots of ported wedge enclosures that do fine, so I don't see why it wouldn't on a larger scale.
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  12. Posted

    How many subs?

    IIRC, you don't want to have any uneven planes in the enclosure, at all. LOL. Example, if the top is angled, then you want the bottom angled the same degree. You may cause damage to your subs if you go the route you are going.

    I've never heard it would be a problem to put an angle like that. That being said I'm going to do it anyway cause it's already built, and it's for 2 18s.
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  13. Posted · Edited by SacredTanakh

    Not using an aero.. and I don't think there is enough space for an octoport.

     

    But I could cut the back piece of the port at angle to where the whole port is the same length. But it would look a little strange.

     

    edit: I just tested to see if two 4.5in sided octoports would work and it would have to make a bend.

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  14. Posted

    Ive never built a box that wasn't square all around so this is new to me.

    I have an angled back plate, so if I angle the port a long with it, the bottom of the port is shorter in length than the top.

    Which should make the tuning on one side of the port different then the other or how does that work?

    How do I create a center port like this and have the tuning and airspace I require?

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    These are interior dimensions.

     

    I'm sure I'm over thinking this, but I want to stay as close to 13 cubes and 30hz as possible.

     

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  15. Posted

    regardless of what kinds of user errors the subs encounter the SP4 is the only sub i have ever seen or heard of that CATCHES FIRE. the simple fact they had to redesign the leads to prevent this shows it was an engineering oversight. I loved my Fi BL and truly abused that as i did not know any better. bass boost was way the hell up, gains were set high, it was on a 1500W amp that could easily push more and yet i never had an issue with it. I have seen many kickers blow up but never seen one catch fire, customers routinely buy rockford P1, P2, and P3's from my store and bring them back blown (its at least a weekly occurrence) and never seen one of them catch fire. When i was at Circuit City we would plug the subs we needed to warranty out into a wall outlet (MTX, Kicker, Pioneer) and never did one of them catch fire.

    the sub i have has the bolt that threads down into push terminals on the side of the basket, from what you describe this is the old style?

    edit: i just found a picture of the new style leads on Fi's face book. i have the old style for sure.

    The Sp4 is not the only woofer that catches fire.. Just because you haven't seen or heard doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

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  16. Posted

     

     

    Very good! Yeah im really interested in their stuff. At SBN this year I heard a Charger or Challenger (I forget) with four IA40.1 on 4 IA's 15's (I also forgot the models of them) I think Judges. Anywho that thing sounded amazing! Had my eyes shaking and needing to take deep breaths of air to maintain. I know what I build will most like not sound as good but aside from that all the other incriminator stuff i heard sounded great too. And now have me hooked. I was originally thinking of going with Crescendo and FI but IDK Incriminator just sounded really good to me. 

    Fairly sure they have wardens in that Challenger, But I could be wrong. Hopefully Ill get a chance to run some Incriminator gear in the next few years, have to finish this build first though (Which is actually Fi and Crescendo) tongue.png

     

    Very nice! Were you up at SBN too? did you compete? 

     

    I was not at SBN, hopefully next year! :) Its a long road trip from AK.

    I only know that challenger cause I keep up with most of the large builds that I can, on forums, and youtube.

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  17. Posted

    well my reconed SP4 caught fire today on my way home from work. i dont think the redesigned leads were out when i ordered my recone as i dont know what date they made this change. i emailed FI to see if mine came with the old style or not. This time round it did not burst into flames like the last one but the tensile leads melted and set fire to the spider. i ripped the surround out after seeing smoke and sure enough the spider had flames where the leads are sown in... seeing as there are no fewer than 10 reported cases of this on the forums here and ive had 2 go up it is a design issue with the leads, just no two ways about it.

    i was on my way to target and playing pink - raise your glass: at about 5/8-3/4 volume as i was not in the mood to bump it hard. when the sub cut out i felt the dust cap as the sub is directly behind me and it was cool to the touch. the sub had been on for no more than 10 min or so when it went up. it was on a Viper 2500.1D that was voltage tested to not go above 68 Volts on the output at any frequency. bass boost was off all the way round and EQ is flat.

    if the recone i have is the old style i will order a new style but if this one is the new style then i have a Fi 18 motor/basket up for sale.

    The new leads have studs with a nut instead of a push terminal, so it'd be pretty obvious it was different from the old style.

    Also I have never had any issues with my sp4s, even running 4k to one for over 6 months. So I still think its user error no matter what people claim.

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  18. Posted

    Very good! Yeah im really interested in their stuff. At SBN this year I heard a Charger or Challenger (I forget) with four IA40.1 on 4 IA's 15's (I also forgot the models of them) I think Judges. Anywho that thing sounded amazing! Had my eyes shaking and needing to take deep breaths of air to maintain. I know what I build will most like not sound as good but aside from that all the other incriminator stuff i heard sounded great too. And now have me hooked. I was originally thinking of going with Crescendo and FI but IDK Incriminator just sounded really good to me. 

    Fairly sure they have wardens in that Challenger, But I could be wrong. Hopefully Ill get a chance to run some Incriminator gear in the next few years, have to finish this build first though (Which is actually Fi and Crescendo) :P

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  20. Posted · Edited by SacredTanakh

    I agree with Swift, but if you are dead set on pro audio. The Sundown Neo Pros come with grills, and also have a slightly smaller mounting depth (3.5in).

    But they are 3x the price of the pwxs.

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  22. Posted

    Since the Knukoncepts kables were mentioned I'd like to say that although their krystal kables look very nice and seem of good quality the connections themselves are very inconsistent.

    Every single one seemed to fit on differently, some were unusably loose out of the box and some were very tight. I had to crimp most of them into fitting decently.

    I bought them more for looks than thinking I would hear a difference. Time will tell if they were a good purchase.

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  24. Posted

    Pro audio drivers don't really need headroom, they are already efficient enough.

    Although that's true and I probably won't push them real hard to begin with it's nice to have.
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  25. Posted

    The error is on the factory side; while we QC test each one the staff doesn't put a DMM on every one due to time constraints and the rarity of a mixup.

    We can exchange them directly.

    Oh okay, sounds good. Thanks
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