audio-neon

Welcome to SSA! what 10" woofer are you running, and I agree with sean, ditch the rears

Some Updates: More resin on the box, duct tape all around just cause its cool, and spl' style. On Tuesday will be working on walling off my trunk will include a bunch of pics.

I like the yamaha recievers for budget, but it really depends on what $ amount constitutes budget to you.

8 Days until this event, a great return trip for anyone in CT on the 16th.

I was planning on getting the SSDs with the copper coils only. Than I would suggest one SAZ-1500d. Giving you ~1600 watts rms @ 1 ohm. Perfect for copper coiled ssd's.

+1 Sundown ftw

Personally I would have to say after myself testing audison, brax, arc audio, tru, sinfoni, genesis, focal, DD, soundstream, alpine, zapco Diamond d7's, etc. I have yet to prefer anyone of them over my eclipse ea4000, save for the tru amp which was a tube amp. I know that when I finally make the purchase that I will not be upset or un-satisfied with Jacob's product. I had a audison lrx400.1 before my saz-1500d. Along with blowing up a z1, DD m1, eclipse xa1000 and several other amps and love my sundown more than any of my previous subwoofer amplifiers. I guess my point is that with the proper tuning amplifier's should play little to no audible difference in any setup period. If you can hear a difference, than one of them is distorting the sound you are trying to re-create. An amplifiers job is not to color sound just increase volume through increasing power.

I am impressed to say the least, I love the shattering of windows caused by excessive spl.

You need to talk to someone else... Heh. The Z1a amps are pretty sweet, but the previous Z1's did have their issues. It has taken me 2 months to get them to even acknowledge the fact that my DD m1 was made by them. All to get told that I would be better off sending it to united radio for them to fix it, as it would take much longer for DD to fix my amp. The only issue I have is that it emits rf noise through the woofers, and clips like a whining virgin biotch... no matter how low the gains are. I loved the amp before it broke.

mine benched an impressive 1821 watts @ 1ohm at 13.8 volts. I love my saz-1500d, and would not sell it ever. I think I will keep this amp forever (might not use them forever would deffinitely run the 3000d's in their place) but would always have them.

I refuse to buy a product from a company when called about a repair, refuses that they ever made a DD m1 amplifier (you know the black with silver stripe very similar to sundown amp cases.

a pair of TC sounds OEM 10" woofers would only be 350, shipped within the continental us.

dont let him fool ya,hes mid 140s about to move into high 140s with a good power source and a new deck And I am not running "huge amplifiers" I am @ 140.7 with one saz-1500d, and all of the aforementioned issues going on in my car. My kinetik is in the mail and that will help a little. Than during these 2 weeks I will be adjusting all of my windows and temporarily fixing my gasket issues for the comp on the 17th. Will be running 2 saz-1500dls for that and my goal is 143. In a hatch I would be much closer to 50's though. The car is one of my biggest hurdles right now.

I would look into bigger amps as well. American bass 500.1, IA 40.1, atomic 5000d, cactus 5kw etc...

I am also just barely over 140 as of right now, and at only 1800 watts and zero sound deadening and frame-less windows that leak and my windshield gaskets leak as well. (just had to pick on you denim.) To be competitive locally is obviously dependent on where you live. I happen to live in the area of most team 420 members so being competitive locally is only when there is a 3x show somewhere else.

I love quad coils. I love to see a driver with quad 1.4 ohm or 2 ohm coils, it gives you the ability to strap a pair of amps or 4 amps to one sub, it also allows you to maximize efficiency for comps by running next to nothing impedances and than with two subs it is very easy to run them at a more reasonable daily impedance.

jeff is doing that in his camaro, but he has his ipod running to his alpine h701, so he still has full processing. His hu is out for repair.

The DD 1500 series actually sounds really good. What would I compare them too, idk yet as I have yet to come across a sub that is as tiny and fun as the 1508, but than again I would take my TC oem's over it anyday. DD has decent sq, obviously not Fi Q, or Rainbow aura sq, but sq greater than what you can find in a big box store none the less. My major qualms with DD is the customer service and never-ending backorders on equipment. Another suggestion would be the SSA ICON.

the h701 retails @ $400cdn??? Or is that your cost. I know it retails for ~525 american dollars and the controller is 200. You can find them on ebay all day long at 350 for the h701 and 180 for the c701.

I know with Jeff's headunit he can control it, but it is one of the top of the line dvd pieces from a year or two back.

If I had a choice to do it all over again I would go with the alpine pxa-h701. It is a crossover and eq all in one. I have the eclipse 8455 but it only allows me to do 4 speakers and a subwoofer, I am running 6 speakers and a woofer. I have my tweets and mids in the kick ran off one pair and my tweets in the a-pillars ran off the other set and it works great. Not as great as Jeff's camaro and his alpine pxa-h701 though. I am looking for a used one at the moment. Would love to get a used one with the controller.

The only issue I have had with aluminum was the plastic dustcap coming off every once in a while on my diamond d1's.

I have never heard of cone related failures with the titanium cones, and the issue with the aluminum cones from TC sounds has been dealt with and fixed.

I am only using one terminal set so far as I lost one of my terminal screws and I am waiting for jacob (no rush) to have some extra ones to send me.