Everything posted by audio-neon
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Which electrical component to upgrade next?
Or leave the current 4ga. use it for your 4ch. amp and use a dedicated 1/0 run for your saz-1500d. I would definitely upgrade the battery/alternator when they fail.
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Building another car?
You could prolly find a donor transmission pretty cheap... Running a single 12" sundown nightshade.
- new to ssa
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cone tore straight in half
pics please, are you sure that the coils weren't wired opposite on each side? I have done it before and the sub is fighting itself, it will still play and all but it is literally tearing itself apart.
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Building another car?
New Street A... 1 amp. (1 saz-3000d, 1 battery) Matt, i'm looking for a crx. Sorry to hear about the transmission, never had any problems with that in neons (except for the one i beat the crap out of.)
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cap or no cap?
capacitors are useful if you are using a lead acid battery with a more than adequate charging system, once you get into batteries like stinger/kinetic etc... they are capable of keeping up with the demanding current needs or a decent/high powered substage.
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sound damping
I agree that you get what you pay for, I would however choose damplifier (the regular stuff) over dynamat xtreme, and damplifier pro is the best product I have ever touched for sound deadening.
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changing subs
what kind of power will you be feeding the icon?
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Building another car?
lol, so I take it your done competing? No, did a little last year. Just don't think life will allow me to this year. I hear you there, competing is strenuous on schedule's and finances.
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Building another car?
lol, so I take it your done competing?
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The rebuild of my 05 Civic
On a note about rear fill, if you do decide to do it, try and run the same style speakers and just run them off deck power, it should be enough for fill and not too much to notice.
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aero ports suggestions
For a general rule of thumb with aero ports I try to have 1/3 or more port area as cone area. so 3 4" aero ports, or 2 6" aero ports would be my minimum recommendation.
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Welcome to the IHoP
boredom in the real world, so in the intraweb my attention shall be focused.
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Dust Cap
tiny power for those subs, make sure you aren't distorting stuff to make it loud enough for your tastes.
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why so many recones
The reason why you see so many re-cone requests on the Fi forum is because they do such an amazing job at re-coning. Many people also clip the hell out of the signal they send to their btl's with cheaper amps (not naming any names but you see it a lot).
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help me decide.
I myself have never had issues with 8v pre-outs on any amps. Even my saz-1500d's strapped. A DD m1, a eclipse xa1000 etc... Any high quality amp should take 8v preouts as long as you aren't being stupid with it.
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5000 watt amp kit?
Who needs an AC... If i wasn't building a street A car and could have my car running, I would gladly drop the AC for a second alternator.
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Second Skin Overkill
Come on denim, where are the pics.
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connecting zune to head unit?
I don't think at this time there is any support for the zune in the car audio world, there maybe something hidden in a dark closet somewhere though.
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18 BTL FULLY LOADED GOOD AMP FOR IT??
Seeing as I don't know anything about your set-up, I am going to offer this advice, wait a couple weeks. Take pride in your system don't just toss things in there because the cost is right. You got a fully loaded spl sub so that it would sound ok. You have a 140 amp alternator... I'm gonna guess that this is a truck/suv and a factory option b/c 140amps really isn't that much. What do you have for a battery. Your system is only as good as its weakest link. I would really push for an amp that is capable of 2500 watts minimum for this sub as it is an spl sub and has a stiff suspension so that when strapped to 10kw it doesn't go boom. Biggest suggestion, wait a couple of weeks, save up a couple hundred more dollars and get an amp you won't be replacing in 6 months-1year.
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Amp For 2 18" BTLs
They do slightly but in this case at 1 ohm nominal load before impedance rise a pair of saz-1500d's would be strapped and running .5 ohm nominal impedances each voiding the warranty for a couple hundred watts.
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4 15" SSDs or 2 18" BTLs
4 15" subs win in the cone area department... Now do you have 4000k watts total? or 4000 watts per sub. Which amp.
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sound damping
From personal experience with both products I still turn to ant and second skin every time I start a new project.
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sound damping
Start with damplifier. Its your basic sound deadening tool (although second skins sound deadening is second to none in my book). Don't worry about the paints, overkill is nice too and not too expensive to use on the back of interior panels.
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New Setup
Budget= box (premade or how much space do you have) power Type r's really don't have the x-max or thermal handling to be spl drivers, they are quite efficient and do ok on power but you would be much better suited to get a high efficiency soft suspension driver (sundown sd1's for example). Why 15" drivers? what type of vehicle, it all matters.