altoncustomtech
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For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
PM Replied Sale on the BC2000 is pending... -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
For starters, I'm knocking $10 off the price of the three remaining items. (Aaron, here's the opportunity on that Audison!!) Now, up for sale here is a used Crescendo Audio BC2000. I picked it up from a user on this forum along with a sister amp of the exact same model. I'm going over stuff and I don't think I am going to be using this one for anything either so I'm gonna go ahead and sell it. I've not had it hooked up while I've owned it but the previous owner removed it in working condition from his vehicle immediately prior to shipping to me so I have no reservations considering it's working condition at 10/10. Cosmetically it has the usual marks from the screws on the mounting feet and such and I would consider it 8.5/10 and in really good condition cosmetically. It does include the remote knob as pictured. I'm looking for $275 shipped for this amplifier. SOLD -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
Same here brother, it was a pleasure meeting you in person and thank you for the comments on the Traverse. Hopefully the next time we meet we have the time to get you a demo of it and the Jimmy both! I'm glad everything was as you had hoped. -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
No problem. -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
Looks like something to the tune of $40 for standard ground shipping. -
As the title states, it's great to be back on here. Family, work, and the universe has had my life in quite the uproar the last few months. So much so that I withdrew from online life almost completely so I could concentrate on taking care of the business at hand. Things are still busier and more hectic than usual but it has slowed down enough that I feel I can spend additional time doing some of the more superfluous things I did before such as spending time on the forums. That being said I've still been active with my hobbies, including audio. When I stopped visiting the forums I had only vague ideas and almost no work done on my wife's Traverse. I can finally say that there's more done on it before I left. I've helped several people get some great work done on their systems here and even had to repair one of the PR's in my Jimmy recently when the adhesive that glued the surround to the cone failed. All these things have taken place during the smallest of lulls in the madness, lol. Even though I've gotten a fair bit of work done on my wife's Traverse it still has a very long way to go. For anyone who's interested I have stumbled upon a website that I think is pretty neat. It's a site a lot like Cardomain and other sites of the sort but with less clutter and the handy feature of hosting pictures that can be linked to like Photobucket. Here's my CarProfile.io garage for anyone who's interested. All four of my vehicles are in there with all the same pictures as that exist in the build logs on here, except the Traverse. I'll be updating the build log on it here shortly.
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For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
Thank you sir. C'mon, you know you want that Audison...... Damn it, how did you know? Seriously. I remember you stating so whenever I bought it and posted the pics of it on here..... -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
Thank you sir. C'mon, you know you want that Audison...... -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
The JBL GTO1004 and the Diamond D3 subs are SOLD!! Bump for the rest of the stuff..... -
Gotta love the smell of contact cement in the middle of the night, lol. Getting the carpet glued down to the false floor/amp rack cover.
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For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
PM replied, JBL GTO1004 and Diamond Subs are spoken for! -
For Sale - Audison SR2, Sundown SA15, Blues Audio, Crescendo Audio
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in For Sale/Wanted
Thanks brother, I'm hoping someone has a use for this stuff. Most of it has been sitting in the corner of my office at work for a year or more since I bought it, lol. -
Where to find Soundigital micro amps, small amps in general
altoncustomtech replied to SpeakerBoy's topic in Amplifiers / Head Units / Processors / Electrical
How about the Massive Audio Nano series?? http://www.sonicelectronix.com/search?keyword=Massive+audio+nano&Submit= -
2005 Volvo v50: Install version, eh, whatever.
altoncustomtech replied to Nocturnus's topic in Build Logs
Gotta love it when things work out that way (ie loving this over the last setup). I am looking forward to seeing how the finished product turns out. -
can this forum handle another Camaro build log? V.3.0
altoncustomtech replied to stevemead08's topic in Build Logs
I LOVE the fleece you're using!! It could be cool if you could see it after everything was done, but then again I'm kind of a nerd that way. I can't wait to show this build off to some of the local guys. I sure wish I could get them to join the forum, I know they'd enjoy it just for your builds let alone all the rest of the site. -
Alton's 2010 Chevy Traverse build log
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in Build Logs
Yeah I hated taking off and being gone this long but it was definitely necessary. Yes the local college here has that show every year. I'll get a date for it posted up as soon as I get it. We also have car shows a few times a year put on by the Hoosier Cruisers car club. Although the club focuses mainly on classics they invite anyone with anything to the shows. The next one of their shows is the weekend of August 15th. Thanks for the compliment on the build. -
Thanks guys. It's gonna feel great to be contributing again. With some of the fabrication work I had to teach myself recently I should be able to contribute in a few more areas as well.
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Thanks man, I really appreciate it.
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Alton's 2010 Chevy Traverse build log
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in Build Logs
And last but least, this weekend I got started on the amp rack. I shaped the front of the rack to match the width of the center console for the front seats to help it look a little more like it belongs there. I placed the Harmony DSP at the front to take the signals in from the HU and distribute them accordingly. I am putting the subwoofer amp in the middle simply to keep the ground and power runs to it as absolutely short as possible. The battery is located behind the passenger seat and under the floor so it's not far away at all to start with but I want the ground as short as possible so that's where it will be at. Finally the four channel amp will be behind the sub amp. Gotta love flush trim bits! And here's the basic layout. That's everything up to now. -
Alton's 2010 Chevy Traverse build log
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in Build Logs
After over a dozen layers of fiberglass the enclosures were finally ready. I dropped the woofers in and tested the strength of the enclosures every so often. With 14 layers of glass on them the fiberglass didn't move at any frequency I played with over 100 watts of power driving them. Between pressure from the wife and being COMPLETELY burned out doing the work on the fiberglass I deemed that test good enough and began to work on getting the enclosures and the speakers put into the truck. I applied the CCF foam that I had put behind the door card on the driver's door to the back of the enclosures (so as not to go to waste) to help prevent any possibility of rattles between the wood of the enclosure and the door panel and did so on both enclosures. Here's how the enclosures turned out looking after the fiberglass was done. As you can see they're still a good fit in the door card. I also took this opportunity to get the wires ran to all the appropriate locations. Finally, onto mounting everything to the doors. I couldn't figure out a good way to temporarily attach the enclosure to the door card and I couldn't figure out a better way to make a better way to shape the door for the finishing fiberglass work than expanding foam. Then it kinda hit me, it seemed like the best answer for both. The foam can glue the enclosures into place inside the door card and give me the foundation I need to put finishing layers of fiberglass down to smooth everything out and (hopefully) make it look like the doors could have been made from the factory like this. I put plastic behind the door cards when I put them back on the doors to keep the foam from attaching to the door itself. Then I got to filling all the voids with foam. After the foam had finished setting up I took a knife and some sandpaper and began to work on removing the excess foam and rough shaping it. Finally here it is with the Bravox CS603CF 3 way component set installed. It still boggles my mind how large these enclosures ended up, how little space there is between everything, and nothing rubs anywhere. I got so lucky on this that it still makes my mind spin when I look back at how much work has gone into this and how much of that work was simply all I could figure out to do with it given the circumstances I was dealing with. The speakers sound amazing. I mean absolutely amazing. The bass response is so phenomenal I have to remind myself that the subs aren't installed yet and they're still only on HU power. They do so at every volume level from barely audible to right at the limit of the internal amp in the HU they come across smooth, detailed and balanced. All the work to make this a custom installation seems to have been worth all the time, effort and money to make it happen. I can't wait to get the last of the fiberglass work done (when the insane heat and humidity finally breaks) and hopefully get this thing showed off to some of you at the big shows. -
Alton's 2010 Chevy Traverse build log
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in Build Logs
So, now it's time for the fiberglass. While I have used fiberglass before to repair a few tanks, dock floats, etc. none of them had to look good when they were done and none of them were done like this. I was able to ask around a little before starting what kind of fiberglass products to use and get a few tips and pointers. I feel that information was paramount to the outcome of this project. If it weren't for the fella's who gave me that information this would have undoubtedly been a disaster. I picked up some good stretchy fabric to use for the base and some 435 polyester resin and some 7725 Twill fiberglass cloth from US Composites. While I'm no fiberglass expert I think the products from USC are without a doubt better than anything I could have picked up locally and definitely better than I had used in the past. I got the stretchy fabric the wife had picked up at Jo-Ann crafts stretched over the enclosures and stapled down tight, or at least I thought it was tight enough. One of those little things you learn from experience is that the fabric has to be SUPER TIGHT to work. Once the weight of the resin was on the fabric it began to droop and I quickly pulled it tight enough to hold straight across the expanse of the enclosure and stapled it back down. That lesson was learned at the expense of my stapler, lol. It didn't work so good after getting resin in the chute where the staples come out. That in turn created a bunch of wrinkles that weren't present before the resin application and therefore I did my best to smooth it out and applied the fiberglass cloth over those spots to keep everything in good shape. It seems to have worked out. While I was applying layers of fiberglass to the enclosures I was able to work on the exact locations and aiming for the tweeter and the midrange and got those mounting rings glued into place. -
Alton's 2010 Chevy Traverse build log
altoncustomtech replied to altoncustomtech's topic in Build Logs
I didn't have much room to work with and with space at a premium in this case I used a high grade 1/2" hardwood plywood to create the backbone/frame of the enclosure. I had to slowly and methodically measure, cut and test fit every piece of every panel of the walls on the enclosure to ensure it would work and fit. I couldn't miss out on a single cubic inch of available space so I worked out kerfing one of the top panels to follow the curve of the door card. After getting that far I had to work out the aiming on the woofers. I also wanted to make sure that if I ever had to change the drivers out in the future that the aiming would (very hopefully) be adequate for those drivers as well since this woofer only plays up to 800hz. I aimed the drivers for the middle of the vehicle, directly between the front seat head rests. I did that because if I tried to turn the driver's side woofer up to where it would aim directly at the driver the woofer would not fit up high on the door. It would interfere with the dash and the part of the door card where the window controls and such was also in the way and would had to have been modified and I just couldn't come up with a good way to do that either. I had good luck in the van with the center aiming and with a little testing it seemed to be okay in the Traverse so that's what I went with. At this point I had to start worrying about how I was going to finish the enclosure. I used some of the same grade plywood in 3/4" thickness to top and follow the walls of the enclosure so that I had something to round over and give a smoother finish to the fiberglass. I used some Inifnity Reference One bookshelf speakers I have early on to do a little testing on placements and such as they are the smallest speakers I own in the house, lol. I found then that aiming them with the port firing into the foot area under the dash resulted in an amazing response boost in the lower registers. Without the enclosures already built and any way to test how it would work for these speakers I decided to try it for the Bravox woofers and these enclosures. So I put the port opening directly below the woofer aiming forward into the foot well.
