Fi Car Audio

Ill square things away with you. Go ahead and send it in to: Fi Car Audio Attn: Scott Atwell 5480 Cameron St#107 Las Vegas NV 89118 Please be sure to include all contact info on a sheet of paper with the sub. Thanks, Scott

Picked up and will start adressing all of them tonight... Ill update later.

Both subs have shipped, but it looks like the other subs shipped out 2 days later from the ship log. Im sure having a holiday weekend makes the delay even worse. Looks like it should be to you on Thursday. Please let me know if I can help with anything else. Thanks, Scott

Lol... no, Im not planning on divesting myself of Fi. I am the only one with a stake in Fi, and thats the way it will stay. Not that Im a control freak, but having realtively no headaches nowadays is priceless. No XBl for Fi subs. I have other things I can use that work well. Currently we are using MGLC for most setups... not quite a long gap, and not a short one either. Somewhere in between. Ill see about a pic or two. Smoke comes from an angle grinder and flap wheel cleaning up other companies subs for recones And I hate that smoke.

LOL! Love the pics I can use the Q coils in that motor as well. Im sure I can make it a decent 18. Thanks, Scott

(2)SSD10s will have the most output with the given power. How much space do you want to work with? I think mine are in .4 cuft each... been a while. One of these days Ill get aroudn to swapping the standard versions for copper coils, but so far Ive been very happy with the standard SSD10s sealed.

Pole chamfer is a machined angled cut to the top of the pole to help direct air down around the coil and reduce back pressure under the dustcap. Thanks, Scott

Yeah and I had to wait a fair amount longer than expected too... got a call at 5:15 on Friday saying that they were finished (and they close at 5:30 and Id have about a 45 minute drive to get there...). Closed today, so I will pick them up and address them tomorrow. People should start getting them on Friday... USPS 2 day. Thanks to everyone for their patience. Im not a fan of "preorders" but this is a little more unique of a product than subs. Thanks, Scott

While I am thinking of picking up some Zed amps since there has been a decent amount of buzz for them and their SQ ability (for a smallish SQ setup), Im still of the mind that more power is better in most applications SQ wise. Headroom in an SQ system is always a good thing. And I would rather have 250W with 6dB of headroom vs 3.5 dB. Not that I use the power on tap 99.9% of the time... but often running an amp near its power limits also pushes up THD as well (even though you probably wont notice it since precevied distortion in the substage runs at 5%+). Given that you are really talking only about the bass section of an SQ system, the sub and enclosure play a larger roll in things than the "sound quality" of most decent car amps. I would then put the midbass section ahead of the sub amp for blending of the substage as well. It is amazing to most just how much better a strong midbass can make the sub section sound... Memphis amp should be fine...

Tough call on this one. A single sealed 10" isnt the biggest output setup going... and with .6 cuft after displacement you are almost at the point where you could run a sealed 12". 1100W puts you right in Q territory, or with some modded SSD10s with copper coils and a slightly different suspension, a pair of 10s sealed in that space with about .5lbs of polyfill would work well. Id probably shrink things down if you need to go with a sealed 10" from what you have. What vehicle is it and roughly what are the dimensions you have space wise? Thanks, Scott

If not... the pair of Q12s will do great. Id do them in about 1 cuft each after displacement. It should have similar overall output to the 3512 (slightly less around tuning, and then more above and below) and should meet your SQ requirements nicely. The Qs do take some time to break in and really open up when they do.

18cuft tuned between 33 - 35Hz should make for a solid setup. Seems those amps are about 2700W, and should be plenty to get things moving well and keep them happy. Subs are all on the way to him as well. Please let me know if I can help with anything else and keep us posted when it gets going. Thanks, Scott

A single BTL or a pair of Qs would work well. Ive seen 2000s with 2800W birthsheets... so they have plenty of power for either setup.

With 17" of clearance the Q15 will fit no problem. You do have plenty of space for it sealed as well. But its almost a toss up between using that space for a Q12 ported or a Q15 sealed. I prefer the Q15 sealed, but you wont have as much output near tuning as you would with the 12 ported. Power wise you are great for both. Is your friends setup ported or sealed?

^agreed. Since it is going for a number then that would be the best way to do it.

Thanks for the kind comments. I appreciate the word of mouth as well. Thanks, Scott

appleyard- When Fi started it wasnt quite in a garage... well sort of, lol. I did have a warehouse (same one I have now) but I also have a solid machine shop and assembly line setup at my house as well. At first, before I had any employees and was doing prototyping and lots of consulting work, I didnt need to head into the shop everyday and I could do a good deal of design work (cad, fea, machining, driver testing) all from home. Much more convenient than driving in to the warehouse to do the same thing, and having AC is much nicer in a Vegas summer than our sweatshop RE wasnt started in a garage either... by the point of RE (origianlly called Resonant Engineering), I had been in a warehouse for close to 3 years. The OEM side of things (called FRC Soundworks) was started in a garage before I moved to the first warehouse. It was rough working full time, going to school full time, and starting a business at that point, and saving as much $$$ as I could for parts meant that I didnt want to waste any on a warehouse for a few months. Parts make money... the warehouse didnt. But when I picked up a couple more OEM accounts I had no choice but to get a warehouse (especially one of the home companies we assembled and bult for... we were doing 500+ of these little full range speakers for them a week and it took up LOTS of space). Fi is about as humble of beginnings as FRC Soundworks was. I intend to keep it that way too. I dont need a 10,000 sqft warehouse this time around and the way things are set up is very flexible. In all, keeping overhead down as low as possible and just having to flex the setup some definitely helps keep costs down... and keeps prices stable even though materials cost rise constantly. Now for a tour inside Fi? Dont know about that... maybe a glimpse or two, but Id rather keep the smoke and mirrors going for now At least with the above pic you cant tell how grey I am nor would you know that Pol is a ninja

Yes we can recone it to an 18... but Im not sure of what the specs or how entirely useful of a sub it would be. Are your motors the newer style with a little heavier bump in the back or the older flatter ones?

No worries... please keep us posted when you get it up and running... and no one will believe you without pics too Thanks, Scott

Sad to say no desert or rocks this weekend. Next weekend Im sure and then UT a couple weekends after that Yes, we have you taken care of on the leads. Subs will go out on Tues. Please let me know if I can help with anything else. Scott

Congrats... just a matter of practice to get spot on with the delay/go as weell as knowing how to roll back or kick it up a notch and when to hit the magic .9 mark. Do you have access to a meter to practice with? Talk to Shawn or tprj about all the little things you need to do for bassrace. They definitely know their stuff. Thanks... Scott

Looks really nice. Keep us posted on how it sounds when things get broken in some. Thanks, Scott

AA has moved to a new warehouse in Las Vegas. We will be making all of the subs on the same assembly line as Fi... but each company is a distinct entity with no major parts sharing except for 1 magnet size, the standard basket/gasket combo, and terminals (oh and glue if you are really picky ) There is a decent line distinction between the two companies, and the business models couldnt be much more different either... dont think there will be too many toes stepped on between the companies. Thanks, Scott

Absolutely agree with JimJ on that one. L7s have the ability to get REALLY loud... so you will have to have a solid setup.

Should be going out on Friday. Ill be sending them via USPS Priority Thanks, Scott