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Thumpper

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  1. On ‎10‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 5:05 PM, ///M5 said:

    Ever listened to a good set?  Lacking is a strange way of describing them to me.

     

    I have tried many soft domes and always gone back to titanium because I find a lack of depth and sharpness

    some of them were really good but there is just something "missing" between them and a good metallic dome

    I don't like all metallic tweets though...cheep metallic domes are tinny and color the sound 

     upgrading to Beryllium tweeters in this current rebuild , they sound incredible


  2. 3 hours ago, akuma4u said:

    thats what i got now but i find its a peaky response with stuff sounding good around tuning freq only so some songs sound nice but a lot dont.. when i was running sealed most sounds sounded great with the exception of very low freq songs,. so this is why i prefer sealed, plus i can get more cone area with 2 12s, so if i get a low f3 sealed woofer i can get all songs sounding good.. thats my goal.

     

    stay ported but tune them FLAT with less 

    than 8% port velocity

     

    you would forget all about sealed


  3. 19 hours ago, Randal Johnson said:

    More power makes for better driver control.

    Not true... 

    It's not the amount of power that improves

    control , it's the quality of power that counts

     

     

    and yes you can damage a 2,000 watt 

    driver with a clipped 1200w ....

     


  4. I'v built a few thousand enclosures over the last ( almost 30 years ) and I have tested them with air pressure and a sledge hammer to make Shure my product is as close to indestructible as possible

     

    the enclosures that I used only glue and Brad nails can be hammered apart panel by panel with laminate layer damage on all seams but the enclosures that were screwed as well had to be hammered into a pile of scrap to come apart and they don't blow apart at the seams with 120psi of positive pressure inside

    you can call my testing overkill but it proves that screws increase the strength of an enclosure by a long shot 

     

    This is why all my enclosures  were sold with a LIFETIME warranty against coming apart at the seams under normal use conditions


  5. 2 hours ago, Billy Jack said:

    thumper is the one who said OFC sounds better and that who I was explaining to.

    if you can not hear the difference between OFC and CCA ( speaker wire and RCA's) on good equiptment your tone deaf

    it makes a very noticeable difference in sound quality when using it with top end stuff..

    with the head unit , amps and components on my front stage I would be downgrading SQ going to CCA over the OFC

     

    and as far as the power wire..... (for example)

    my Crown A3000gti could not get the current it needed with double runs of CCA where the pure OFC did just fine with a single run

    that damn thing clipped like a cheap piece of crap and would shut down when it didn't get proper current

     

    my new Mosconi ZERO ONE draws as much as the A3000.... I'd be stupid to use cheap assed CCA to power it...

     

    and you trying to explain anything about audio to me is like a monkey explaining to a squirrel how to open a walnut.... nice try


  6. 38 minutes ago, Billy Jack said:

    Unless your running a huge $100k dollar demo vehicle OFC ain't worth it. For a daily ground pounder CCA is fine. All where doing is running current, it doesn't care what it flows through, just as long as it's big enough. OFC is just for vanity, which is actually a big part of audio. These company's want you to believe OFC is so much better because there's money in it for them. You ever seen how they test it, lol they do rolled up wire in 1000' lengths, last I checked a car is only what 15' long. If anything just run a extra run of CCA and call it good. 

     

    ya .... OK.... LOL

     

    CCA does not deliver the same amount of current from the batteries /alt to the amps as OFC of the same size,

    it does not deliver the same sound quality from the head unit to the amps

    or from the amps to the speakers.... not even close

     

    if your using mediocre equiptment in a ground pounder listening to fart music CCA would be fine but if

    your into SQ and want all the micro details with a dead back ground and no noise floor it's junk

     

    you can't use your bullshit opinions and fight the laws of physics....

    OFC has way less restriction and carry's the frequency's more freely

     

    Copper and aluminum are the most commonly used wire materials and there is a significant difference in quality, power handling and signal transfer between these materials. The least costly between these 2 options is Copper-Clad Aluminum (CCA) wire. CCA wire utilizes an aluminum core that is clad or dipped in copper. It is a suitable choice for lower powered systems or restricted budget applications, although the power transfer is not on the same level as the far superior Oxygen Free Copper (100% OFC) wiring. OFC wiring is refined to remove virtually all oxygen and other corrosive elements.

     

    Oxygen Free Copper wiring provides a superior electrical conductor to aluminum because it does not expand or contract with heat and can carry a higher current load. The improved efficiency of OFC wiring will also reduce the strain on your vehicle tremendously and allows your sound system to run at its maximum efficiency. While OFC wiring is more costly upfront, it provides much improved corrosion resistanceand greatly reduces your long term maintenance costs. CCA wiring often times will degrade to the point that it needs replacing much sooner than OFC wiring.

    OFC Advantages

    • Increased Conductivity to Carry More Current to Your Amplifier
    • Reduced the Strain on Your Vehicle’s Electrical System
    • Increased Corrosion Resistance
    • Decreased Maintenance Costs
    • Improved Heat Absorption

     

     

     

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