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Hi, Which would you recommend for daily use? BTL or BL? Thanks.

I plan on doing 5.75 3^ft after displacement sealed enclosure on 1000wrms. Any and all critisism welcome aswell as opinions. Please be brutally honest, I'm a big boy no harm no foul. This will be going into a ford escort hatch

Well i've got my friend hooked on Fi. He wants to build a setup with my help. He is looking at a 12" or 15" Fi BL Powering it with a Directed 1100d, old model. He listens to mainly rap, and it will be placed in a Grand Am. What options should he look into with this amp power. I told him to just get it fully loaded if he ever plans to upgrade someday. Just need some opinion. His main concern is what size to go with, what is your opinion, I personally went with the 15, and love it.

I am hoping that all of you with more experience in the car audio world can help me out. I am designing a home theater installation for a friend. My friend has never heard an I.B. (Infinite Baffle) sub but he plays guitar and has mucho experience with car subs. He is of the firm opinion that 15" and 18" subs cannot hit like 10" and 12" subs. I am recommending an I.B. sub installation, using 4 Q18's in 2 manifolds mounted in the attic, with each manifold having 2 drivers mounted on opposite sides but facing in the same direction and wired out of phase, for that extra 2nd harmonic cancellation. I had to sell my house (divorce) and am leasing now so I can't demo an I.B. sub…

i was wondering if a BL with pchamber (sp?) and SPL package will do nice daily (not daily 2k beating 4 hrs a day) maybe....20 mins of play time a day? this has probably been covered also but how much port area would you recomend im going to be going about 6.5-7 cubes tuned to?

lol this is a noob question but i dont know how to put on the sticker fi gives you when you get your sub. Do you just peel it off like a sticker and put of on or do you have to do something else?

I bought the 12" BTL and received a notification from papal (This email confirms that Fi Car Audio has accepted the $459.28 USD you sent.) on 11/9/09. Is there supposed to be any other notifications? I read on this forum that FI sends a tracking number that is updated when the sub is shipped. Was i supposed to get one and just didn't? I know that its only been 4 business days, but i was just wondering. Thanks in advance! …

Is a T1500-1bd Enough for a BTL 18"?

I'm deployed to Iraq (9 months done, 6 to go) and I was starting to get serious sub bass withdrawals. I just got a great deal on a Behringer EP2500 for my HT setup. I was going to order a Q12 for my car when I got back but I had an idea. So I emailed Scott and Nick to see if they could build me a small sealed box and ship the box to Iraq loaded with a Q12. Scott said yes so I placed my order. I was getting impatient because I wanted to know how much more Fi needed for the box and additional shipping. Then it arrived today and it is amazingly in 1 piece. I've had a smile on my face all day. It is jury rigged with 3 adaptors inline running of my laptop but it still so…

can I recone my bl that came with reg coil with a flat wond coil is the gap the same?

See i ordered 2 12 Fi Bl but the more and more i look around...a 15' btl or a 12' Btl would do so much better...well i have not gotten my tracking number yet...so is it possible to change??? to a fully loaded btl???instead of the bl

I am planning on possibly doing 2 18" BTL's in pretty much the optimum enclosure to be put in the back of a Tahoe. Ported to the back, subs upward running about 2500-3000 watts each for daily. I am newer to all of this and hate to ask this stupid question, will that get loud as hell??? I would like to compete and wondering if this would be good for daily and competition. Wish I could do 4 18's, but I doubt I can afford that much power, LOL!!! As I said, I am very new to all of this and learning, so any info would be great... Thanks

Anyone know how much it would cost. I just emailed [email protected] about it. I'm so frustrated with this sub! I bought it from someone and it was making a wierd noise when he pushed on it and he put glue on it and it went away. But when we hooked it up it made a wierd noise when it played. He told me to put some glue on the spider in the center where it connects to the cone and I did that but it still didnt fix the problem. So I turned my gains on my MD2 down to where the sub played fine without it making the noise which was pretty much all the way down and used it from there. On the way to work today it stopped playing so I thought maybe the sub froze because it …

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.

Right now i have a Q15 and its hittin 143.3 and its in a 5 cuft box tuned to 40 htz and its just not loud enough for me in my jeep grand cherokee. I want to buy something new i will have 2 Digital Audio DAD1504's which put out 1500 watts at 1 ohm and im not sure on what to buy cause my area for my box would be 19" in height 28" in depth 35" in width so if anyone has any ideas for 2 subs running 1500 a piece or 1 running 3000 daily im up for ideas i also thought about 2 fully loaded BL's running 1500 daily or one 15 fully loaded BTL running 3000 daily please respond with your opinion on each cause im lookin to hit around …

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Hey everyone. I am new to not only this forum but to FI as well. I have always had "eh" subs that are sold in my area. I currently have 2 10" RF T1's in a 3 cu ft enclosure....I am lookin to upgrade to something louder and better and am not sure of which sub to go with. I listen to 75% heavy rap, 10% techno, and 15% heavy metal. I like SPL mostly, but want to retain some SQ. Are the Q's or BL's a better replacment for what I have?

can i max the gain on the saz1500d without breaking the bl? is 1500wats the max wats that a bl can handle? or can it handle a little more? and what can a saz1500d really produce? coz i know its under rated, thanks!

Ok so i orderd my sub last monday and they billed me thursday and i still havent got a email for a tracking number or anything. Do they start building the sub as soon as your put in your order or do they wait tell you get billed then start building it.

11cubes to work with...2btl 18's ported tuned to 35hz with 2k going to each or 3 q18's sealed with 2k going to each? for the folks cant understand 2 18's ported 4,000 watts or 3 18' sealed with 6,000watts either setup will be in a blazer walled off 80 i feel like such a noob

So, I have been debatin on a lot lately what to go with on 4 15's.....Q, BL, BTL. I love lots of vibrations and tons of SPL, so not real sure. My wife who rides with me a lot loves lots of vibrations to, but onlike my current truck, actually wants to hear the music with it...lol. I have no exp at all except watchin video, but you obviously cant tell from that. So, what would you guys suggest. For this install, money is not a very big issue....but like anyone, the more I save in the end the better, lol. Lookin for you guyz' ideas and input. If you haven't read my previous post, it is going in the bed of a truck with a blowthrough.

So my budd is worried about his electrical in his 2000 Toyota 4Runner and wonders if he needs to upgrade his Alternator and/or battery. He's running I think a yellow top under the hood, and we'll be running an AQ1200D on my 18 soon enough. Thanks guys

when are they coming out? i was going to get 4 18" but when i heard these 22's were coming out i figured i would wait... is there going to be a new motor on it or any drastic changes or should i just get the 18"s? pretty much just wondering if there coming out in the next couple of months

I would like to purchase a Q series 18, however, due to some issues with unauthorized use of my paypal account, paypal has locked my account and blocked my card number from being used. Are there any other ways that I can order with this card?

hey guys ...have a quick question ...i just bought 2-12" FI Q DVC 1 ohm used...just got them in the mail today so i pulled out my meter to check the ohms on each coil ..1 sub i get .8 to .9 on one coil and 1.0 to 1.2 on the other coil.... sub 2... 1.0 to 1.2 on one coil and 1.1 to 1.4 on the other coil is this ok ? i know on the FI site 1 ohm dvc should be .7 ohms and 2 ohms dvc should be 1.4 ohms and yes i am using a good meter ( fluke 116) just dont know if the ohms go up a little once they are broken in which is my case since they are used .....just want to make sure i am hooking them up to a sundown saz1500d at 1 ohm and dont want to blow anything …