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I'm sorry it came to this. It's never happened before and I hope it never happens again. I spent many hours, over several months, trying to find a solution that would work for you - despite your refusal to be forthcoming on a few occasions. There were too many suggestions that I wasn't treating you fairly during this time an it finally felt much too risky to continue. It's not like you just sent me an e-mail and I told you to go to hell. If you had told me you were planning to have me ship the materials to Sundown to be combined with what you were purchasing from them, I could have told you it wouldn't work, instead of wasting both of our time. I may have been able to suggest an alternative that would have worked. It's much easier to get things done when you are straightforward with people. I don't think you'll find anybody who thinks I haven't given them as much of my time as they needed. I finally had to say enough is enough. I put a very high value on trust and honesty. I continue to wish you luck.

Headroom is everything in audio. ALWAYS going to get better results when your not pushing things to thier limit. What other mid's are you thinking of using?

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Okay not really, I snapped a terminal on one of my tweets. Hooked it up, doesn't sound any different.

I clicked, but am not reading. Will just be an abridged version of what I've already said. If anyone truly see's ANY value in a DD-1 post it and I'll show you why you are confused. I have quite the value for this item. While I will admit its over priced, but its uses are undeniable. - Doorstop - Paperweight - Chock Block - Primitive hammer - Keystone in the 'failed tools of car audio' collection. J my friend got one free from SMD since he's big on youtube.. Im going to mess around with it when I get the recone done. He paid too much and you are about to waste time

You will need to TA the mids. TA on the tweeters is much trickier. Since we generally localize higher frequencies by interaural intensity difference time alignment on tweeters will potentially not change the imaging/soundstage in that bandwidth, depending on how low the xover frequency is. But what will change is the interaction and phasing between the mid and tweeter if you TA the mid but not the tweeter which can potentially cause some FR anomolies around the crossover frequency depending on speaker placement, frequency and environmental factors. My best advice here is to TA the mids then TA the same side tweeter by the same amount and see if you notice a difference. TA shouldn't be too difficult. I've always done it by ear personally. Anything with a good center image should do. When you get the right amount of TA midbass/midrange will become much more coherent and centered, go to far & it starts to lose it's coherency again and sounds a little bit like listening to speakers in a hallway. The first non-music option is to measure the difference in speaker distances between their location and the listening position and use that difference as the setting for the TA (which given the TA is given in distance in the processor, I'm guessing that's how the processing is setup). The other non-music option is to use a good MLS or equivalent measurement setup and measure the impulse difference. Much more accurate, but again I've always had luck just doing it ear. EQ is a little more complicated. Without a well trained ear, doing it by ear with music you're not extremely familiar with (and by "familiar with" I mean "familiar with how it should actually sound on a good reference system" and not just "I've listened to it a hundred times") is basically like throwing darts at a board. Part of the problem with using music is that you end up Eq'ing based on your preferences for that particular song rather than the actual frequency response of the system so you'll get it setup to sound great on that one song but it'll sound wrong on another. If a good measurement system is not an option at this point, rather than worrying about a particular song or songs, I would first familiarize yourself with general tuning principle's and what instruments affect what frequency bandwidths, what anomalies (such as sibilance) fall within which bandwidth, etc. It will help you out a lot when you are listening to music to more quickly narrow down where problem areas may be located. This link may help: http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/freqchart/main_display.htm

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What vehicle, what power, what electrical, whats your budget, how much space do you have. Please enlighten us, as we will not be able to correctly help you without the answers to these questions. Take a little time to make a useful thread, and we will take the time to answer it properly =)

Never send money unless its a confirmed address.

Go to small claims court. And do what, get a claim against a criminal? Like that would be worth the time and effort. I call it a lesson learned. The guy was so sure that he could get away with it that he posted a pic of the amp and the laptop that he was suppose to sell me and another guy with the cash that we paid him on top of them. I will try to find the pic If you dont take legal action then your part of the problem.

found it. He got mad cause me and the other guy went to all the car audio sites we could and gave the moderators his ip address so he could scam anyone else.

I signed it. If this thing passes I'm moving to Canada

PM Nick direct so this thread will close,

Your level of tuning ability will be directly dependent on your equipment. Log on to DIYMA. The SQ sub section has great information on SQ system design and tuning.

If you plan on spending 2k Get 2 18 Icons. Enclosure, whatever amp you want, alt, batts, wire cables, and deadening. Still could have sum change left over.

you guys picture some big china factory... its not like that... how would you do things? im sure its the best way.... so your hard parts dont mixed up with new hard parts. and what not. its a small company. that does big things,. . NOOOOO!! i know its a small operation... But having only one day for recones is just horse shiit. I have and still own a Fi product... Just hearing this, if my sub did fry i would NOT send it in for a recone. Why...?? My luck it would take 4 + weeks to get it done! I would more likely just buy a new sub...ELSE WHERE! :-) Why you whining? Is your sub there? No. So STFU.

The ZCON's with 14k on them will surely have more output. Sounds like a great project.

Zcons with 14K sounds pretty good, right mark!!