Impious
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I'm guessing the daughter's laptop is win7?
She has a Mac. No idea what version of OS, and she doesn't know either. She doesn't know how to figure it out and neither do I
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Would really like to be finishing up my stereo right now, but my laptops battery won't hold a charge so I have to leave it plugged into the wall. I believe this is causing some grounding related issues. And for the life of me I can't find a fucking laptop to borrow. My daughter doesn't remember the admin password to hers so she can't install any new software. Mother in laws is windows 8 and I can't find the drivers I need for my mobilepre. Sister and dad don't have one. 2 days I could have been working on finishing this, or atleast verifying that it's the power cable causing the issues. Such a simple task, just can't fucking make it happen.
Maybe I can find a cheaply on craigslist? I don't know what else to do. I might have found a battery online but will take 2 weeks to arrive.
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I got my first soccer game on Saturday. Not sure if anyone here plays soccer
I hear this one guy here likes to play a little....
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It sounds like they basically just invented a different type of Helmholtz resonator. Narrow band absorption based on essentially catching and dissipating rather than reflecting the energy. Exactly what the helmholtz resonator has done for a century.
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And as you can see from the last pic there, I finished up my kickpanel install as well. What do you guys think ? I spent quit a bit of time working on aiming to get the best imaging...I think it flows well and blends in nicely with the vehicle. Almost looks stock !!
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IT LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!
I needed to come up with a good hiding spot for the MS8 display... I really like hiding the display for a few reasons. First it's one less thing for theives to see, being that it would look like a GPS to someone in passing it's one less reason for a theif to double take at my car. Second it's one less thing shining in my face at night. And last I think it just adds a little something extra to the install to have the display in a unique location and not just out in the open stuck on the dash somewhere.
In my old install I had the display for the MS8 hid in the overhead sunglass holder. Unfortunately the Buick doesn't come equipped with a sunglass holder because, being designed for old people, it's presumed their "sunglasses" will always be clipped onto the owner's tri-focals. So I had to come up with a new spot for this car.
What I found is that the display is almost exactly the same size as the ashtray. So I popped out the ashtray, built a little mounting panel and secured the display with velcro to the panel so that it was still easily removable without having to tear the whole assembly out of the car. Turned out well. Simply flip the door shut and it's out of sight. I was a little worried that the angle would be poor from the driver's seat but the display is easily visible
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You don't want a 94 Impala SS. I have it's cousin, a 94 Buick Roadmaster and they're not audio friendly at all.
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Get up at 5:45am, hit the gym around 6am. Move some weight for an hour then head home at 7am to hop in the shower for work. Out the door at 7:20am, drop kids off at school and drive 30 minutes to work. Work from 8am to 5:15pm then head out on the road to field call customers (drive to the house of delinquent customers and pound on their door demanding money, mafia style). Drive 200 miles doing that, get home around 8:45pm. Have enough time to poop and change so I can leave by 9pm to drive 15 miles one way to pick my daughter up from dance. That gets over at 9:30pm so probably won't get home until between 9:45 - 10pm. Sit down and finally eat supper, try to hit the sack by 10:30pm so I can get up the next morning and DO IT ALL FUCKING OVER AGAIN.
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HT and music are completely different. For HT you want a large low tuned enclosure as sound effects can rumble down into the low teens. Music obviously doesn't get anywhere near that low, so the enclosure and tuning would be way off for benefiting music. If you plan on dual purpose, you either have to build for HT and accept the fact it'll suck (comparatively) for music or tune for music and accept the fact it'll suck for HT (and run a subsonic filter so you aren't blowing the subs).
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All the DD-1 will do is fuck your stuff up. It has ZERO value for anything....well okay, perhaps for a paperweight. It is seriously a terrible idea to use.
The number of blown drivers that are set with a DD-1 is a WAY higher percentage than ones set ANY other way.
More confusion in your first post too.
Then those people are idiots. No such thing as underpowering.Some people mentioned that 2k for a Zv4 is low.
The way you've asked the question would tend to have me recommend the Z for you. Either will be fine however.
I ordered the X12 already, supposed to be here Monday. Unless it's absolutely dire that I get Zv4 I'm guessing the X12 will do what I want it to at 2k rms. Also there will probably be some box rise so chances are it won't be seeing the full 2k. Maybe around 1700 considering the 2000d was clamped at 2400w @ 12.5v.
Clamp tests are meaningless.
There is no such thing as "box rise". Speaker systems have an impedance curve.
You are fine with the sub you ordered as long as you intelligently set the system adjustments.
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It's a specific type of epoxy resin. I would imagine the big box home improvement stores probably sell a similar product as well. I've seen them use the same type of product on DIY shows before.
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i have a question i figured you guys may know how to do what i speak of,
if you have ever been to a bar that has tables that have a thick clear coat on them, with pictures underneath,
or like a ski ball table,
is that lacquer ? or fiber glass resien?
i have a table that has reclaimed wood on the top, its nice, and i would like to protect it and make it nicer and use it as a coffee table,
can anyone help?
http://www.uscomposites.com/kk121.html
Never used it, but everyone raves about their fiberglass resin so I'd imagine it's a solid product.
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Kinda been slacking here lately. Decided to finally get something done today. My bad on the crappy pictures. It was dark and the camera on my Ipad sucks.
Anyways, got my Rockford Fosgate RFX-8250 installed today. For those not in the know, this was RF's high end HU offering about 12 years ago (date of manufacture on the bottom of my unit is April '02). It was OEM'd by Denon and is basically a rebadge of one of their units, although the exact model # eludes me at the moment. I didn't buy it because of supposed sound quality advantages to the unit. To be honest I simply love the aesthetics. Nice and clean, simple, classy, functional. That's it.
As with everything else, it took me a lot longer than anticipated. Learned something new about my car today as well. When removing the old HU I accidently ripped the connector off of the antenna wire (FUCK !!). And apparently with my car if the antenna wire is not connected to anything the blower for the AC runs full blast and the display for the HVAC system stops working as do the HVAC controls. So I was pretty excited about having to run to Radio Shack and praying the whole way there that they had the connector I needed. They had one, literally, and it was sort of a shot in the dark when I bought it...but luckily it worked perfect. I'd been screwed if they hadn't had that connector. Then I had to make a 2nd run to town to get screws for mounting the HU. The damn Japanese make their high end HU's ISO-mount, which pretty much nothing in the US is compatable with. The dash kit I have supposedly works with ISO, but the fit/finish of every kit I've used ISO mounting with is shitty, and because of the design of this particular kit the screws I had weren't long enough. So I wasted 2 hours today just driving to and from the store to get materials
As you can see (kind of), there isn't a trim ring. The HU doesn't have one, and I couldn't get any of them I had lying around to fit. I tell myself that I'll try to figure something out and get a trim ring on there, but the truth is I'm lazy so this is pretty much how it is probably going to stay.
Aside from being one step closer to finishing my install, this is also motivation because, as of this moment, I do not have a working stereo in my car. And I have a 30 mile drive to work every day. Which is going to be boring as fuck. So hopefully that serves as motivation for me to finish the stereo so I have something to listen to again
Next step I think is to work on the kicks. Got bored with the doors and those don't bring me closer to listening to music as it's just the midbass. If I can finish the kicks then I'll have 90% of the bandwidth covered, so I can atleast listen to tunes while I work on the doors...which are going to take me for fucking ever to finish.
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......I have a 2002 Yukon XL with 4 18" Level 4's and about 7k watts of power.
I don't need or want to over kill
Go with Don @ SDS as has been suggested. Great products, great advice.
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Or hell, there is nothing proprietary about your cables. He could probably buy the materials and build an equally good cable for less than yours are selling for unless you are getting really, really good discounts on materials.
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To answer the original question;
No, they are not worth it.
Not sure why you can't use less expensive RCA's throughout multiple installs as well. Or hell, if they were cheap enough don't waste your time pulling them from the car. Send them with the car, buy another affordable pair and still be ahead money, and time.Depending on your application and budget, they may or may not be "worth it" for you.
All of our cables are shielded, constructed with very nice cable and connectors that tightly grip RCA jacks, and come with a lifetime warranty. Personally, I would prefer buying one nice set of RCA cables I could use throughout multiple installs rather than buy multiple cheap sets of RCAs.
Very few people need to use a warranty on cables. Of the few that do, it is still cheaper to buy multiples of a more affordable cable than to buy one expensive cable (and then potentially have to deal with trying to get it warrantied). Plus a warranty is only good if the company is still in business and, no offense, statistically you have a very low probability of being around mid to long term.
Likewise if he is using a UTP cable and doesn't experience noise, then the shielding isn't going to matterAs far as twisted pair goes - unless you have balanced differential outputs/inputs then they're borderline useless. In car audio, differential is very rarely used (symbilink uses it) and when differential isn't used, shielding is the #1 form of noise rejection. Cable routing is still important as always, but even passing over stock wiring can introduce noise, which can be unavoidable in many cars.
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I hate people at the gym who sit at the machine or workbenches to fuck with their phone after their set. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY. It's a small gym so there is only ONE of everything, and no one else can use it to workout if your just fucking chillin' at the machine
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is giving a lecture at my alma mater in Oct. Tickets are free, it's for a lecture series they host every year. I want to go so fucking bad. Neil is one of my idols. He's right there with Carl Sagan as one of the most rational and intelligent thinkers of our time in my opinion...not just in physics but spiritually, socially, etc. Even though it's free, the tickets are still not available for order until Sept 29th, and there is a limited number although I don't know how many.
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i would love to do a blowthough but dont have the cash for it...Why not just build a blowthru?
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im not trading my truck now.. gonna wait to find something else.. the 1994 buick roadmaster is even worse the my truck on gas! only thing good about that car is there is mad room for subs and amps in trunk.. hope to get a car soon thoOh, yeah, in the winter I get 16-17mpg, in the summer around 19mpg. And that's 90% highway driving.
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Oh, and it's TERRIBLE in the winter.
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I have a '94 Roadmaster. Sucks as an audio car. Trunk has a funny layout with the spare tire and hump for the rear axle. Door panels are fragile. Not much space in the door stock. Kick panels don't have much room because of the humps for the frame rails. I started a build log on here but haven't made it very far...LOL
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Got pulled over today for looking like a drug dealer/drug runner.
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My complaints are more practical and about how the state is ran, less about it's aesthetic beauty. I've never been to the UP but I hear it's awesome.
I've been to a lot of beautiful places in Michigan. The drive to get there is ALWAYS painful though.
There is not a single thing good about that state. If the USA were to take a shit, we'd call it Michigan.Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Michigan roads?
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Michigan sucks TOP in the HOP
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Yes, car stereo. Plug it into my MS8 and it doesn't work right. Plug it into the garage radio and it works just fine.