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Hey, my first post on the board! I like it so far and I expect to be posting a lot more on this forum. I'm very new to car audio, I just got my first set up about 2 months ago. I hahve 2 12 Ultra Linear Subs and 1 1000 XA Eclipse amp, yeah nothing great ( All for sale) My new set up I wanna go with a 15 BTL. I was wondering If I could get some advice from some of you with what I will need to get this sub to reach full potential Amp,Battery? Capacitator? etc.. Thanks guys, and great forum!

I wanting to run 2 12" Qs in a sealed box under the seat of my 07 crew cab sierra Theyll have about 1cu ft of air space each. Im wondering if the SSDs would be better for this type of enclosure or what? Ill be running a RF Power 800a2 for right now and upgrading later to probably a RF T15002

So me and my buddies decided to see which car was louder. I had a 15" SSD and he had 2 type r 12" subs. I for sure thought he would be louder barley but he wasnt. I was suprised !

So when I first got my 2 12" btl's they got low and loud. I have had them almost a month and now they don't sound the same. It's late so I havent put a dmm on the so I don't know if something happened with the coils but I never smelt anything. One day they were hitting real low and I thought I heard a pop but they still sounded great, may I have over done it? Any ideas???

Ok guys, looks like we lost a lot of the information we had, I will work and get all of the enclosure information back up, explaining the options and everything else that we previously had. I apologize for any inconvience this may cause you. Feel free to post questions and register for the forum if your account has been lost. Once again i'm sorry this happened, but it did and we need to build this place back up to what it once was! Thanks! -Nick

Im totally lost on what options i should choose when configuring a BTL. Im looking to get a 12". Its gonna be used as a daily speaker in a ported box. im confused about choosing the P chamfer and the cooling part, and the rest of the options lol. I already have an amp that gives 2700 watts RMS, so most likely ill be using this amp unless this isnt safe? please help me in deciding which options i should choose while keeping the things i stated before in mind. Thank you in advanced. please help my noob self as much as possible

I normally check out Fi's web site at least once or twice a week. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see the updated look. Check it out. https://ssl.perfora.net/www.ficaraudio.com/...ndex.shopscript Chad

WOOT! I think my X series are finally broken in and I have them tuned just right, I am now capable of 135+ db in IB with 300 "rated watts" off of my Fosgate Power 1000 at 4 ohms. I don't have a Term Lab available but I think I am doing pretty darn good on my little handheld SPL meter! Thanks Fi!

Hello all, I've always been a fan of Fi since it came out just from reading the forums and when I first started wanting a system. That was about 3 years ago now I think. I would like to put together a system now but I'm shipping off to college so money is tight at this point in my life. I'm sure this is QUITE impossible but I'de like to not spend more than $500 on either 1-15 or 2-12s including the Amp. I don't have a deck either right now but hopefully can figure that into the budget sometime. Thank you for any suggestions or insight. -Rob

So what should I set my low pass at for my FI Q10 that I am getting ready to install? Its a D1, if that matters and the woofers I am running are 6.5" Rainbow Kicks.

im currently looking into buying a Fi Q 18 right? well, i dont have any car amps currently! (Had to sell my two 600 watt kenwood amps, yea i know it isnt much power, but it was plenty for my 6000s) So, since I def. dont have enough to buy a SAZ-1000 yet, how much would you say could get the Q moving? like 500 rms? 800rms? 1000rms? I dont wanna spend a whole lot, cause I want to buy a SAZ soon, but I dont want the Fi just sitting around, you know how it is when you get a new sub, you wanna hook it up as soon as the box is done! Cant just finish the box and put it in the garage and watch it gather dust. enough-power-for-minimum-before-I-buy-the-bigger-Sundown-amp budget Bu…

Right now i have my 18 bl in a ~6 ft^3 box (before port and sub disp.), tuned to 34 hz with a 3.75 x 20.5 in port (was supposed to be 4 inches, but i had a lil cutting error ). Anyways, i'd like to try a few different boxes, some higher, some lower, some smaller, some bigger. Fi has 30 hz as the lowest recomendation, and i'd like to see what the people who tuned to around this (or people who have heard a bl tuned to this) thought about it. They also have 37 hz as they're highest, so have any of you tuned to that, if so, how'd you like it? I realize a person who tunes to 30 hz is going a different path than someone tuning 37 hz, but i'd just like to see how each individu…

Hello. I have 1 15" Fi BTL for now and I was looking at getting another in the future. I found a pretty good deal on an Ma audio HK4000D. My electrical will have the Big 3 done and I have 1 Kinetic 1400 battery but also soon to be at least one more. Would this amp be worth the money to push 2 15" Btl's daily (Rap) to their full potential or is it overrated?

equipement: headunit - alpine 9887 amp - 4 sundown saz1500d subwoofer - 2 FI BL15 not full option Batt - 2 xs 3100d here's the picture: FI bl15 4 saz1500d with 2 xs 3100d: and the result:

Went out to move my vehicle earlier(after bumping my bl 18") and noticed a car sitting in the road. I got in started it up and the car rolls forward and out pops a cop. He asks me if i was playing my music loudly earlier, and i told him I was. He skips right past the warning and asks me what i got, and i told him to shine his light in the window. He says holy chit and asked for the company name so i told him. He wrote all down on a notepad and told me what he had in his previous system ,and we bullchitted for a few mins and told me he would look into it and rolled off.

i find out i get canned from on of my jobs today and was kinda depressed and then all of a sudden the doorbell rings. Sure enough it was my brand new 15 " BL's. this made my day possible my week. i totaly forgot i got fired lmao. next week i start my install monday morning first thing. pics wil be up soon after the install

I was just curious about the specs on the lineup,specificly the Q.Maybe its just the picture but the Q18 looks like it has a small mag.Whats the weight of the whole sub?whats the mag weight in oz?Im sure its designed for that application but the BTL is the only sub that looks proportionate.Dont get me wrong everything Fi does I like.My eyes have a hard time with big sub little mag.Hope this makes sense to everybody!

well... I got a motor here (lmt motor) and it was sent to me unmagged.. can fi magnetize it for me? what would be the cost? dont need a recone or anything.. just this. thanks

Recieved my subs the other day from Blade Ice (European distros of Fi and AA) Piccies here: http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/vbb/showthread.php?p=3664884#post3664884 Major thanks to all involved, great services as always (previously has BL's) and the subs look amazing with the chrome dustcap ! Also have to say a personal thanks to Scott (who probably wont read this but still) who got my alternator to me in time, a burden which originally had nothing to do with him. Thats the kind of thing you don't see anymore in the world. Gay as it may sound I really am touched. Keep it up guys, no one can come within 1000 miles of your service. Thanks So

I bought two 12 Fi Q subs about 4 months ago and I haven't had anything but good things to say about them. Everyone who gets a listen smiles instantly and asks me all about them. So the reason for me wanting new subs? None really, just getting a new car so I figure now would be the time to get the louder audio setup. I actually got into an accident not to long ago in my Lincoln LS and it seems to be totaled so I should be going to pickup my Audi S4 sometime this week. Anyhow, right now I have two Fi Q's in a sealed enclosure powered by a sundown 1500d. It gets pretty loud, but theres always room to get louder I haven't actually seen the trunk size of the S4 in pers…

Got this on my order status. "Manual Verification Required" I think this means they want an email from my account to verify purchase so that's what I did. Said take my money and yes please build it and I can't wait to get it. This what Fi wanted? please let me know thnx and God this wait will hurt lol order # 1503

Okay, so here's the dilemma I'm having: whether to go with multiple smaller subs, or a couple bigger subs. Now, I've looked this up, but nobody seems to get it. Yeah, if you power one single, massive woofer with enough juice, it'll outperform 2 subs with lower wattage, but what I'm trying to figure out is: say you have 1 or 2 18" woofers, and lets say 4 or 6 12" woofers, with equal total wattage going to either set of woofers, which one is going to be louder? Also, I've heard the bigger woofers will hit lower hertz louder, at lower volume levels than smaller woofers. But, will quantity compensate the larger size of the bigger woofers lower response?

hey gonna try and fit a 12 btl behind the seats of my crewcab silverado moved the seats forward I got the mounting depth cleared but want to know the measurement from the highest point of the foam to where the ring meets the wood to leave a lil space so the seat wont rub the sub at all when its running, thanks.

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I have a Memphis 16-mc2000d mojo amp. I also have a FI BTL loaded This sub is dual 2 ohm. I wired it in series so the amp sees 4 ohms. I have it in a 7.5 cube box tuned to 40HZ However when I really get this thing kicking it sounds like it cannot handle the power. Any suggestions, I know this sub can take all that this amp can give it???