Dave88LX

Mine's a professional photographer...$3000 camera body, $300 lights, $60 stands and crap...so, no room to complain.

Yep! My house is about half a mile off one of the Chesapeake inlets. Just some rain and wind, nothing bad thankfully. Although, I was hoping one of my trees would take down my fence, no such luck. How about you?

Oh nice, you're about an hour up the road from me, I'm in 21122 (Pasadena).

Yessir, that is I. I stopped posting there pretty much over the last year after they were bought out by that Canadian company, went to shit, and everyone started posting elsewhere. Who are you there?

Nice! Not to drag this too far OT, but what do you have/do in MD? Just thinking about the shipping cost if something can be picked up locally.

Don,What part of MD are you in? (Assuming you are still active here!) Thanks. - Dave

I have 80ft^2 of their 80 mil product that I just got in last week. It doesn't look like the stuff in the original post to this thread though. Black foil, black adhesive layer. I see in a thread linked a few replies above, that they changed their manufacturer. I need to do my Civic, and also my truck (big). I will use this in my Civic. Going to also talk with Don (SDS) about my truck. I've only spoken with Coleman through e-mail and he was quick/courteous. I haven't been in the game for years like many of you guys, so I don't know the history. This was an interesting read though. - Dave

I just got some 1/0 OFC, but haven't cut it yet. I'll update this when I cut it, see if it's changed.

Do you have a storefront in MD or a place to listen and see? Before I found this forum, I asked elsewhere and was told there was an unrelated physical store up here but that's it...

Sort of related, but not entirely...I'll just ask it here. With the SAZ-1500D v.3 coming out, I have been seeing a lot of the v.2's and some v.1's for sale. Is there any reason not to pick up one of these earlier models at the lower prices? (Looks like they are ~$300 shipped)

Oh, let me ask this too...any Maryland members around here? I'd like to get my ears on some of this stuff.

DAMN. The description of what I want it to sound like is dead on (as I said, I'm not looking to compete in anything, just sound good, and hit hard when I want it to). The thought of running a massive 15" with over 2kW never crossed my mind though.

Yes! I see he used to review product, but now has his own. I'm reading up on a lot of his posts in the Sound Deadener forum tonight. Well, you know how budgets go. I budgeted $4K to redo my Firebird when I spun a rod bearing. I'm at $12K and counting. My initial thoughts for the sub was going to be a pair of ~$200-$250 subs (each), +/- $200 for the box, and ~$300 for a good deal on a used quality monoblock around 1kW. This may change as I learn more.XCON wasn't on my inital list of subs I was looking at (GCON, SA-12, DC3), but seeing that I may only be able to use one instead of two, it frees up some money, and may be a better choice. Have to see how the numbers work out I guess after I get Dustin final measurements. You know, I haven't looked at car audio stuff in close to 10 years. I have it in my head that to get "tight, accurate bass, you need to run 10s sealed" because "12s aren't as tight", and "ported boxes are just way too boomy", and "15s have no accuracy and are sloppy". There may have been some truth to this 10-15 years ago, I don't know, maybe it's all hearsay. I know it's not the case today at least. I personally haven't heard 15s, so I'll need to hear some and at least verify for myself how they sound. I did some reading/asking today, and learned that upping your wattage from 500-600w to 1000-1200w isn't as large of an increase as one would expect, so not to get hung up on the amount of watts so much.

I was looking for all sorts of information, came across SSA subs, and subsequently, SSA's website, noticed the forum. I love forums.

Was able to pick one up also. I figure it will at least hold me over until I learn enough to find out what I *really* want.