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well so much for the big debate........... was the amp clipping or was it HF dirt from the class D ........????

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Here is the catalog I did for IA after we got the website, and photos all done. Click here for all images

Sounds like a V12 with straight cut gears. Four CBR600 engines juryrigged into a 2.4L V16 link?Sounds nutty! Everything on Google seems to point to YouTube or French websites.

Been drinking a lot of high gravity stouts lately. Figured I would share some of my opinions on the best, and worst, I have tried over the last 2 or 3 weeks. First, I hate IPAs... No, I really hate IPAs. Ales just suck, no matter how you color them... although admittedly I occasionally enjoy a cherry wheat when it is hot out and I am feeling a little foo-foo. I am a big fan of lagers in the summer, but during the winter I like a heavy stout. Not a porter, not a bock, I like a stout. I have recently ventured out into chocolate stouts. I have become a big fan of them... HUGE fan. I have always liked heavy milk stouts and double stouts, but the chocolates are amazing. I have also tried some bourbon stouts as well. I am going to share them in the order I would buy them, cost and price considered. In at least one case (Dragon's Milk) I have placed it lower on the scale just because it is so fucking expensive, and IMO not worth the money. I will rate them from 1-100 after my input on them, based solely on flavor not price. Southern Tier Brewery's Choklate is fucking amazing. Far and away my favorite beer of all time. It is really heavy, has an extreme bitter chocolate flavor, and enormous alcohol content. The head is darker than any I have ever seen, and it tastes like bitter bakers chocolate. Interestingly, you don't taste alcohol at all. It is extremely filing, and will flat out get you fucked up. I grabbed one on tap at lunch one afternoon and inhaled it in ~10 minutes. I ordered a second and about half way through it I realized I was pretty well buzzed. It is labeled at 10% alcohol, but it hit me like a fuckin' hammer. It is spendy; on tap we paid $8 for 12 ounces, and in the store I only found it in 22s at $9 apiece. I drank 3 one night after work, and split one with a co-worker... I should not have driven home. I am hesitant to give anything 100, and I have vasilated on my rating while writing the rest of my reviews out, but I simply cannot give 100 to anything I am not in love with. So I give Choklate 100. Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate stout still sits near the top of my list. Choklate edges it out overall, and I feel that the Choklate is even worth the extra money, but since Choklate is so damn hard to find, Brooklyn is an easy "hell yeah". Brooklyn is not as heavy as the Choklate, but it is still very full. The alcohol flavor and aroma is really strong, and it is also a 10% brew, but I think it is an honest 10%. Chocolate flavor is slightly sweet and really nicely balanced with bitter stout. I pay $9-10 for a 4 pack. This is a brilliant stout. If the alcohol flavor and aroma were a bit less, this would score higher. It is no a knock on this beer, it is incredible, but it could use a little more balance. 97 Southern Tier again visits my top 3 list with their Double (2X) Milk Stout. I like a nice milk stout, but I usually feel like something is missing. This milk stout is everything a milk stout should be. The texture is very full and creamy, and the texture carries out into the flavor. The bitter is well balanced by the creamy flavor into an easy to drink stout. Don't get me wrong, it is not your run of the mill Guinness, it is a real solid stout, but it is easy to drink. At $8 for a 6 pack, this 9% stout is definitely the most affordable, high quality stout I have had my hands on it a long time... maybe ever. This is easy. It is everything it should have been, and more than I expected. It is brilliant, and scores a 96. Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout steps in softly at number 4. I say this because I like the listed #5 better, but the pricepoint makes SS a winner. This is the only beer that is an import on my list, and deservedly so. Obviously the foreign market has not gravitated to high gravity beers, nor have they gravitated to really heavy, bitter stouts. This stout is light on the pallete, with a decent, almost light chocolate flavor. Nothing is overpowering about this beer, it is extremely well balanced and extremely easy to drink. I had to add this to this list for those of you who like Guinness. It has a much nicer flavor, and a similar alcohol content (only 5% for this brew), and it is a tad more expensive, but it is not outside the realm of the more mainstream stouts in any way. I prefer a heavier, more rich beer. But I don't want to take away from a well balanced, more "mainstream" style mid gravity stout. 94 Dragon's Milk had me so fucking stoked to try, but it was a disappointment. Overall it is sitting firmly in my top 5 stouts right now, but the implication of what it was really made me expect more. It is a bourbon barrel stout... How fucking exciting is that for a fanatic of high end bourbons like me? The bartender who turned me on to the Choklate tried to get me to try the Dragon's Milk as well, claiming the DM actually had a bourbon flavor, not just the typical undertones of a bourbon barrel stout. So I snagged some, cringing at the price of $18 for a fucking 4 pack. Yeah, that was not a misprint... at 10% it is strong, but the buzz felt dirty compared to the Southern Tier and Brooklyn chocolate stouts. The bourbon flavor is an undertone, it was not terribly strong. It was well balanced, actually, but I was hoping for more. The alcohol aroma is pretty strong, but the flavor is really well buried beneath the other flavors. I really do like this beer, but it is expensive. 96. Now for the bad... I also tried Hi Wire's Chocolate stout. I hate to judge this as a bad beer, because to be honest I had tried several really good beers that day. I had a couple Choklate's at lunch, than a couple ST Milks, and a Dragon's Milk before trying this. To me it was very flat, and almost had a hint of an IPA as well. NOt my favorite, but my pallate may have been a bit heavy due to the other stouts I had tried that day. I'll give it a 65. Fuck Bell's. They make, from what I understand, a great IPA. They are known for their IPAs. Their Kalamazoo Double Stout, is an IPA. It was fucking atrocious. I hate to say this, but I spent ~$10 for a 6 pack, and dumped 1/2 of one on the ground it was so bad. I gave the rest of the 6 pack away, it was horrible. The 100 rating on the price tab was fucking bullshit. It should have been -100 Anyone interested in these beers can ask for a picture to see if you can find them locally. A group of us tend to try different beers, and I have been sharing with friends, so most are stored on my phone as I have texted my beer drinking buddies..

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OP you had very bad luck with this. SSA customer service is top notch. they answer emails even on sundays ! When I need a caraudio product for anyone, I start to look at the ssa store first enjoy your xcon : this sub is marvelous !

From what I have found so far looks like 3.5 cu ft for sealed. Which works out great as its only 18.55" cube enclosure. Anyone have input on that?I have not checked the specs, but that seems quite large. UniBox 4.08 Results:

Sold the w140 wheels to fund the E30 project, because race car

working on them now... SSA is due to get some brand new modern looking skins also

So you are running a 5.8k amp @ 1ohm (close to double the rms of the sub) on your stock alternator? Well, no shit the sub is going to fail, I am surprised it lasted so long.

There are two truths here. 1st being. Nobody knows exactly what caused this. 2nd being. No manufacture makes 100% bullet proof equipment. Things like this happen to many end users and with equipment from many manufacturers. This particular time is was you as the user and SSA as the manufacturer. Nothing more than "shit happens"

An amp shouldn't "sound like" anything. That's quite a hunk of money to piss away for a sideways move.

it seems like back in the day the problem with leads was them snapping because of excursion. Now a days they are burning up because they are sandwiched or sewn. I think it had something to do with the materials it is connected to, and the amount of glue used to secure them in place.