General Audio

Recently acquired an e36 m3 coupe. During the hunt for the car, I was also able to purchase a pair of Jehnert door panels with space for 4 6.5 mids. I've hand picked a couple items I had laying around in the garage for this build So far I've got Kenwood DNX9980HD Audison Bit.1 Zed Dreadnought, Zed Leviathan iii, & JL 1200/1 2 SSA Gcon 15's which I'll be trying out IB or possibly 3 JBL mkii 10's. JBL 2426H horns(Found these on craigslist for 100..steal of the century) ID full horn bodies Now, for the front stage, I have 2 options. 1. 4 18sound 6ND430's(4 ohm). 2. 3 18sound 6ND430's(4 ohm) & A pair of Audax PR170M0's for midrange duties. Which …

Today on the ride home from work I was streaming Pandora through my head unit with my Galaxy S4 via aux jack when all speakers but the front left and subs quit playing. I tried music stored on my phone and everything went back to normal. 1st thought was an app issue with Pandora, so I tried Slacker and got the same results. Back to the stored music.... fine again. I then tried streaming both apps through Bluetooth and everything played fine. Wtf could cause this??? If it was a problem within the phone or aux cable, shouldn't the stored music do the same?

I know that a lot of people don't like them here .. why is that lol I thought Dave was part of RE back in their glory days

im looking for a crimper like this one but id rather not have to hit it with a hammer. does anyone know where to buy an impact gun driven crimper for 30 bucks or under? i found some 250.00 ones from snap on but thats it. http://www.nagca.com/grandtech/Tech%20Photos/crimper.jpg

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I can't stand these prices people are asking to make a box. I think worst-case, can I pay someone to cut some MDF and I assemble the box myself? $200 for a 2.5 cube 12" box with no extra features seems pricey. The only thing I don't have is a panel saw, but otherwise I have pretty much everything else. Would it be hard to make a panel saw myself? Would lowes/home depot cut mdf for me for a reasonable fee? I have also read that they will give you a new sheet if the cuts aren't perfect. (I won't mind 1/8" off, but if they aren't straight then that is a problem) BTW I have 33x38x19 to work with and I want to tune to 28hz. Possibly aero port to save some room if nec…

I use Stefan's port area calc to figure out the needed port area for a design. It's not working for some reason. I was wondering if the website moved or if there's anything else similar to it. Also if you see this Stefan, what's going on? lol I like your website. Here's the link...bitpusher.in/

Does anyone know if the volume and port length calculator work pretty accurate on the 12 volt website?

I have an MB quart 4.80 running 6.5" 3 way infinity kappas in the front and infinity kappas 3 way 6x9s in the rear. Each has a 2 ohm nominal on each channel of the amp. If I bought some crescendo super tweets would I be able to wire them and still make a difference to my front stage? I am planning on upgrading my 4 channel in the future to a Hertz or quality 4 channel after I get my alternator this winter. Should I just wait until I upgrade my 4 channel and just buy a component set?

Hey guys. I have a fair amount of experience with installs in my car, but it was only me driving it. I am getting ready to put a system in my Explorer, but space is more of an issue than it has been before. Questions I have: 1. Without sacrificing any storage space, where is a good place for the amp(s) and a subwoofer? What is the best way to approach this? 2. How do I find out what size speakers I can put in the doors? The depth of the speakers as well.

Post em here! Sweet deal from Crescendo!!!!

Sorry if this isn't the right topic to put this into but.. On YouTube I see some demos to where the song starts regular then starts to slow down into an edited slowed down version of the song. I have audacity and know how to edit and slow and blah blah but is there an option on audacity to do this or is there another program you could recommend me, perferably free lol

I seem to have a lot more voltage drop to rear fuse to amp when the seats are up, rather than down. This is a trunk car. Is lack of air flow making the sub work harder? I have the rear 6x9 vacant..

ok i have the sundown NS-1 .... i have wanted a bigger amp... and well a friend is selling an AB 1100.1 12v black PCB amp.... for 1500 ... thats a steal, and i think im going to puss the trigger, of course ill need alot more sub to put it on.. but that can come later... so .. quick.. yes or no.. and any reasons you have NOT TO ... thanks;/

I see a few people round here using their Components. What about there subs? I got a qoute for there HD and HDD line... Just wondering what you all thought of them...as a company and performance. Anyone running their subs? Ther look like everyone elses(Sundown, Fi, Etc)

if i have a sub box that has a rating of 40hz will the subwoofer still sound good and play low notes if the subwoofer is rated at 33hz or will i have to have the same rated hz on the box as well as the sub to make it sound correctly Thanks for any responses,

Well I ordered all my wiring last week when I ordered my amps and forgot to order the RCA's any one have any good recommendations of are they all pretty much the same

as some of you know i was hit by a drunk driver a few months ago and now my settlement is almost over and im almost ready to start a build log when i recieve my money i want to keep my budget around the upper 5 thousand range it can go over some if i need to but i want to go 2 18s i was thinking two team fi 18s and a cresendo 5500 at .5 ohm or should i just get the sp4s or zv4s my goals are too tune around 32htz range i have a toyota tacoma double cab and im going to take the back seats out and wall it off so ill have around 10-14 sq ft in air space so ill be good on air space on any of these im pretty set on the cresendo 5500 so something i can run off of it and my eletr…

Heya guys, I'm starting a somewhat crazy build. I've run several sims and I just cannot viably fit a large slot ported box in the car. So.... I'm looking at .75 mdf double baffled top 21" x 24.5" x 20.75" giving 4.8 gross cubes. I'm bracing the box with rod iron. I was looking a putting 2x 4" ports and tuning the box to around 32hz, with a single zv4 18 on a crescendo bd2000. My question is do you guys think I should give a third 4" port and give up a tad of airspace? 3x 4" 16.5"long ports should give a tuning of ~34 hz. I could also go with a single 6" port, but I don't have the room in the car or box to put two 6" ports There is very little more room in the car afte…

I've been wanting to try id horn for the longest. Purchase a set months ago they were DOA because of packaging and shipper that was F.... Up. So I decide to contact eric Stevens and order a set and purchase the selenium d2500ti drivers. I read on line that I'll need an adapter ( adf25 1in) I think I was good to go yea right not at all aggravated! Can any one tell how to mount the three hole driver to the id mini horns thanks in advance.

I have a 99 toyota camry with 2 fi q 12s on a saz 3500v2 I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with camry. I have my subs & port firing to the rear & it is not bad but I was wondering if anyone has had the subs firing forward & port to the side & how it did vs. sub & port to rear. I am having a slot port built right now just wondering if anyone had gain or improvement doing this in a gen 4 camry. I am just looking for a suggestions I know ultimately I am going to have to just experiment because of all the uncontrollable variables. Here is my question do you think I should go for it & try subs forward port to passenger side or stick with…

Would really appreciate you alls help Will run 2 american bass xr 10 dual 4ohm Off an audiopipe apsm 2000 Just wanting to get loud Hoping to strike around 32-34hz Max dimensions 34w 13H 20D Listen to all types of music, specially hip hop On the other hand would hope to hit some Good db Thanks!

Hey everyone, I recently purchased a 1976 BMW 2002 and I would like to outfit it with a nice system. The car itself is a little restricting due to the amount of noise it makes and its size. My main question is about power consumption. Right now the car has the stock alternator in which produces either 35a or 45a, I'm not sure which. How much amperage would I need to run a little 10" sub such as the SA-10 and a set of front speakers run off of an amp? The mounting location accepts what appears to be a 4" speaker. I would also like to get some opinions on a real good set of 4" speakers for lets say around $200, a little more wouldn't kill me but I'd like to keep it relative…

Hello guys, Need you advice on my automotive audio issue. I had changed by setup to Zed LEVIATHAN III from Helix and the current speaker are from Seas. So far, i like my current setup compared to the previous which used Morel. However I had encountered whining sound from my tweeter whenever i on my HU or the system. The whining sound was constant. There was no increase in the whinning sound when i increase the accerlator. I encountered this whinning sound after installing Zed LEVIATHAN III. I would like to know if LEVIATHAN user encounter this problem too? I had read through about the write-up about the noises from the speaker. I had done the followings: 1…

Its been over a month to hear anything on mine. Didnt know if they were backed up or what. Thanks.