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Well, my business partner was on a mission to bank some frequent flier miles off some cheap cross country air-fare. He mentioned Vegas, Grand Canyon, (YAWN) then Los Angeles. I told him if we could get up to Simi Valley to count me in! Long story short, Grand Canyon was a big arse hole in the ground, Vegas was pretty cool...helps that my partner does a ton of traveling and gets the VIP treatment at hotels... But actually visiting Zed Audio and meeting with Stephen in person was tremendous. Picture Santa's workshop without so many migets. JK But actually pretty cool. Mostly we just talked about politics and having some laughs, but as always when we talk, I learned some good tech stuff and got some hints about some of the other non audio related projects he is working on. Also he said he is working on a lower price/power lineup of amps as well as a line with tiny footprint. (Oh yeah, I bought a little souvenier of course Sadly economy is soft and production cost is prohibitively high so no MEGALITH in the near future Simi Valley is a nice town and Stephen was very generous with his time and hospitality. My life is now officially complete and I have to say I'm not a distributor or supplier or anything. Just a regular guy who buys a few of his amps and sends him blown up stuff to repair. Kudos to Stephen and his wife for being so welcoming.

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The enclosure specs itself are fairly decent. In terms of you scared of it acting leaky because the port is so close, no, it will not. Think of it like this- When the sub is put in a volume, regardless of where the port is, the volume is what influences the output capability. The smaller the volume, the more it likes higher notes, the larger the volume, the more it likes lower notes. Where the port is does not change that. However, placing ports in different sides of a box can greatly effect SPL based on firing direction, 1\4 wave theory, time-alignment theory, etc. But it does not negatively effect how the sound is pressurized. Do not think that the sound must "pressurize" and then look for an exit.. Instead, the volume itself influences the SPL capability of your playable range before any sound is even present.. That should change the way you think about it. Now, I hope you properly obtain your desired tuning frequency using a port that large! 6" Aeros are usually always enough for a single 15 for daily FYI.

Didn't know it came any other way

I bet that was a helluva spark!!

And that's exactly what they were designed to do - operate over a very large bandwidth while sounding good and getting very loud if need be.

Marine terminals ftw

Why would Fi design a woofer to compete with themselves?

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

For head and buttsecks? pssh what else?