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Watch "Why Doesn't MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?" on YouTube Almost wet muh pants there.

Nice man

Love that group.

Very nice enclosure design !!!

This was box number ~160 for me, and ive never once built 2 boxes the same.

Final configuration. 17 banks @ 15v. Just shy of 7500 farads.

Looks nice

Box looks good so far, no 45's?

Any progress on the build yet?

No dont stop. Tell us how you really feel.

Well, there's at least a little light. I was just a little curious as the product line was cut down a bit. I was just guessing they were slowly closing product out. As material costs continue to rise, and the race to ZERO with cheaply built off the shelf rebadge brands popping up left and right, it is more and more difficult to compete. Which is making it ever more and more difficult to justify keeping the doors open at American made brands. Hence the slow disappearance of the smaller models of lower profit. I find this so frustrating. So many cheap garbage clone companies popping up lately. It's to the point that any 20 something can order clones and start a company with a new logo and semi-different heatsink and the kiddos blow them like they've developed the latest and greatest thing. That's the problem with our country now. There is NO innovation. The good companies develop great products and then get undercut by small-fry startups that don't even have a buildhouse, just a single rollup where they take orders and wait for a boat/truck to arrive. Thanks for ruining our once great country. I've been complaining about this for YEARS. It takes zero knowledge to start an audio company anymore. Just enough capital to meet minimum order quantities, and then the lemmings on the internet run around circle jerking each other about how this essentially off the shelf OEM product is the best new product on the market, despite the fact there are 10 other nearly identical products already on the market. Most of the time the owners don't know or understand their own products, or much about audio. They just thought it would be cool to start their own company and then get enough people to pimp them on the forums. It's ruining, or probably better stated already has ruined, the industry. I could not agree more. The little people with no understanding or knowledge of how things work get all kinds of excited about this amazing amplifier that will do 2.5k on stock electrical no problem whatsoever. When they blow the shit out of the woofer ie clipped to death, they all cheer on how underrated the amplifier must be because of the "insane amount of power" that blew the woofer. It's like falling on your face and being applauded for your superhuman balance. It has destroyed the market. There are two hell holes we've sunken into; the first being the people blowing eachother over the same gear that's been floating around for years with a new badge, and of course this retarded obsession with "custom" woofers. Every kid who knows how to use glue thinks they're a goddamned engineer. The result of course being a bunch of shitbox woofers with unknown parameters and therefore no way to build a proper enclosure BUT WHO CARES?! All people want is an inexpensive option to make enough noise to compensate for their inability to succeed in life. /endrant

Well, there's at least a little light. I was just a little curious as the product line was cut down a bit. I was just guessing they were slowly closing product out. As material costs continue to rise, and the race to ZERO with cheaply built off the shelf rebadge brands popping up left and right, it is more and more difficult to compete. Which is making it ever more and more difficult to justify keeping the doors open at American made brands. Hence the slow disappearance of the smaller models of lower profit. I find this so frustrating. So many cheap garbage clone companies popping up lately. It's to the point that any 20 something can order clones and start a company with a new logo and semi-different heatsink and the kiddos blow them like they've developed the latest and greatest thing. That's the problem with our country now. There is NO innovation. The good companies develop great products and then get undercut by small-fry startups that don't even have a buildhouse, just a single rollup where they take orders and wait for a boat/truck to arrive. Thanks for ruining our once great country. I've been complaining about this for YEARS. It takes zero knowledge to start an audio company anymore. Just enough capital to meet minimum order quantities, and then the lemmings on the internet run around circle jerking each other about how this essentially off the shelf OEM product is the best new product on the market, despite the fact there are 10 other nearly identical products already on the market. Most of the time the owners don't know or understand their own products, or much about audio. They just thought it would be cool to start their own company and then get enough people to pimp them on the forums. It's ruining, or probably better stated already has ruined, the industry.

Chad has not owned AA for quite a long time. See Aaron's post for ownership.

nice looking design.

I have been eyeing those Q4-120's myself lately.

Also, please don't take my views as a simple bash on the guy doing the test. I am only basing my opinion on experience. I just finished up a 2 year tenure here: www.afotec.af.mil I was a suitability evaluator. Basically, I evaluated electronic systems for the military. I used extensive amounts of test equipment and completed objective test reports on military space assets, in other words, I know what I am doing. This is why I have a tough time with a lot of "car audio" tests...

They did not lie to you. They make every concerted effort to get your packages to you. If it was UPS, you would not have even gotten a person to talk to and if you did, they would have told you just wait without giving you any more information. They all do Saturday delivery except to remote areas.