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I just wanted to take a second and go a different direction in this thread. I know some of you have been waiting a while on your orders and even at my age its hard to have patience waiting for something so awesome(xcons in my case). That being said, I know hard Aaron and Mark work to make sure they have top notch products and unparalleled customer service. considering how many times a day they get questions and comments I think they do a FANTASTIC job of handling everything. Normally it doesn't take so long but the world is seeing what SSA and being hand crafted in the USA is all about which in my humble opinion is being the best which explains all the orders they are having to fill. I for one am glad to wait on something so fantastic. Btw i am under the impression that xcons are now in production So here is to SSA and being a part of an awesome audio family!!

Morning bump

I've heard the story of a man and his dog, but a man and his woofer. That's just priceless !

some testing from zaphaudio.com http://www.zaphaudio.com/temp.html

Momma Chop got it today! Packed by what has to be "Thee leader in packaging technologies" cause this was so far above a Job well done, Thank you Sean for being a suberbly quick and very caring seller who packed our new equipment with great care!

Well, another quick update I just gotta share. I got a chance to play with the tuning on the unit some more today. I went in and played with the EQ for a bit, fine tuning it to trying to get things perfect. The only issue I had on some songs was that they sounded a little flat in the upper midrange, lower treble areas. I could get it close but never quite got rid of it without bringing that bad harshness back so I had an idea to play with the phasing on the components again like I did with the Kenwood. Having the time alignment on the Clarion seemed to change the interaction between the speakers. If I turned off the time alignment it went back to sounding like it did with the Kenwood, light and airy but low on height and narrower. So I decided to start from scratch and went and put all the speakers back in phase with each other and voila, perfect. The flat sound was gone and the light airy sound was back but with the stage and image back up on top of the dash and nice and wide open when I put the time alignment back where I had it. From there I made some more adjustments to the Q of a couple of bands and played with the gains/cuts for a bit until things were just right and the original harshness I had experienced was gone. I never imagined I could get these results with such a modest lineup of equipment and little money spent. The components are doing such a good job with the midbass it's just completely thrilling to play the songs that really lend themselves to it. Everything else is just as improved though and while listening to "Alabama Shakes - Hold On", "The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling", "Rhianna - Stay", and "Billy Joel - Piano Man" I got the attention of some teenagers out playing some basketball next to my buddies house. They were amazed that all I had playing was the components and that it sounded so good and clear. I really got them smiling when I had them take turns sitting in the drivers seat while we played a host of other songs including several tracks on a couple of Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD's. They left seemingly impressed and talking about what they were gonna do to their own cars. One in particular is gonna come by this weekend to have me look at what he's got and give some recommendations.

MUCH better lol. Date I say it can handle more : peepwall: Is it getting an acutal 5500w now and wanting more?! Dang bro that makes me want to become evil......... No its not taking the whole 5500 watts as amps are not 100% efficient, you have to figure out the rise in its current enclosure and etc.

The 10 is complete.

yeah I would be sanding everything clean. So attach the ring terminals and then like spray paint over them? Yea, using a rust inhibitor helps.

Doesn't sound like anything, all the Facebook posts proved he was acting like a child.

This is becoming a confusion match. You fuse your power run to rms total wattage of the amplifiers. So your amp is 1200w rms: 1200/12= 100 amps. To your issue, you should do the big 3 upgrade and check ALL of your connections. Make sure the battery is fully charged as well.

Sounds like you are acting like a child. I wouldn't want a child representing my company either. C'mon Steve

Another prize was donated and added to the raffle: a 10" SSA GCON!