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You got your turf, I got mine.

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You have a great eye. Mel LOVES datsuns.... He has a dozen on his property. You seem as "geek" as he is on em...lol. Great times, with great people.

Both are good subs and either will do the job, really comes down to a coin toss. Nobody can say what will be better or louder as all that is subjective.

would not go that far, but thanks. For some reason, the last 7-8 weeks, im down over a db and a half, for some reason. Not sure. OCT17th show. Turd ran OK. First in 3-4, second in psyclone ( i need to just add some rear fill and fuses for 20 points, but , im lazy) and the only one to do 599. Sure it was only a 53.7 for the 30s at 35hz, but, meh..... I beat on this thing all day. Hell, even just driving up there, i whaled on it. And everything ran fine. Getting up there, buddy Mel, laying a trench in his rig.... Demo'd all pucking day........

I picked up a pair of SilverFlutes for around 40 bucks + shipping and I am very happy with them paired with my MiniDSP and horns.

Why not spend $150 on mids and $100 on the miniDSP? Same budget, better performance. If you don't love the mids later sell them and upgrade. It is really hard to shop without hearing some things first. A used set of Seas CA18 or ER18 would be a great starting point mated wit the miniDSP.

In my humble and limited opinion if you're planning on running active in the very near future then I would definitely skip buying an automotive component set and go straight to picking out raw drivers and building your own. The manufacturers of the component sets you've looked at cut all kinds of corners to offer those sets and/or worse charge far more for them than they're worth. Take the Arc Audio Black 6.2 components for an example. That's an $1100 set and it was explained by someone on here that Arc sourced the drivers from SB Acoustics and the very same ones can be purchased from Madisound for under $250 and the passive crossovers sure as heck don't make up the rest of the cost. Imagine how much a company actually has in a set that costs $100 to $200. My point is that if you're going to run active there's no point in wasting money on mediocre at best and more often sub par speakers in some component set when even cheaper raw drivers will blow them away. Look into the ScanSpeak drivers you mentioned, Seas, Dayton, SB Acoustics, HiVi, Morel, Tang Band, Peerless and so many others. You'll be far better off and have less money in it overall. That's just my .02

Now I just need to get Aaron up for one.

/afterdrive approves

Go with a bigger box.