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Starting around 1:20 that track gets purdy saw-eeet So is that wall. Ho Problems with 21" wardens, my dream T3 wall...wow!

I'm looking for anyone near Sioux Falls with a Term Lab. I won't be going back to Dashboard by Karl's, so I'll need to travel.

If I had someone willing to let me yes, but at the moment I have to keep all vehicles I work on ready to put back on the road within hours. If I could use your vehicle I could have one made in a few days, but locally there's no one who will let me remove a/c even for a day. The lot I normally pull vehicles from is almost empty right now, but the next time an Astro rolls through I'll put some serious time in it. xmikedxl- I should have a few ready to ship in another week or two. alrighty

So far he has been very helpful with me even after purchase.

Sarcasm?......my intrawebz sarcas-o-meter is broken.... yes sir, I have found that these forums have broken me over the years, I am becoming one of them, yet still against them. The masses just say a lot of stupid shit that is not only accepted, you are beaten down tared and feathered for being smart enough to know better, but not smart enough to defend yourself against them. Out of all the peple that swear audiopipe is dirty, I wonder how many would prove it in a double blind test. Even if they can, I can not, so I am not going to buy a single "cleaner" amp for four times the price.... I bought 4 APs and I am more than happy. Guess I like it dirty

getting my alt in was a biz snatch

mine make everything sound so dirty. dirty dirty power. selling all four of mine to get one saz or stetsom wink wink

wow, just checked out your build log, extremely impressive

I'll give him my excessive amperage alternator if he can beat my old score of 148 @ 25Hz

Not a prob, take that time off and enjoy it, don't need anyone cutting off fingers or setting themselves on fire or whatever can happen around there.

yep, sounds like they have been working crazy overtime over there... thanks for keeping up with everyone as best you can!

I lost more than I made last year, those guys had me workin like a dog for yup, $8, but he was my neighbor, we looked out... he'd bring ribs over and use my grill and Id get a pile of meat. I always waited for him to hook me up with his... business... lol but I never had any... offers :-P

well what to say what to say. I was wrong? Everyone else was right? Wait... Ive said that countless times. These subs are wicked in the enclosure/tuning/power requirement I ended up with. This is me still sliding in my excuses. Listen, I started off with 110 cubic feet and a 15Hz tuning. My towers dont load the subs hardly at all, I barely get any excursion reduction at tuning and I get close to peak SPL at tuning. That wasn't true in the final result of the van, but of course not, 45 cubes is a lot more restrictive and loads a TON more... then theres the 24Hz thing vs 15Hz. Not even going to try to explain myself away there. Also, I had never done a wall before, I had never even done a double baffle or a recessed/countersunk mount. I had this great Idea of making the two outter rings a tiny bit too tight since I used 3.5" screws that should pull the sub into the counter sink making it anti-theaft, even more air tight ( I didnt use gaskets...big no-no) and to support the "weight" of the subs. Now that I have "real" subs I realize even these pale in comparison to 70lb plus drivers. So I fixed the air leaks as best I could... I chizzeled out the outter two layers and I chopped up some mounting gaskets so ive got rubber seals now. On music air actually blows through my port! I believe before, my enclosure was leaking around the sub cutouts, making my port less effective, and as effective as it still was...well the IB3s weren't strong enough to fight it. So anyway, with the 110 cubes 15Hz tune I had a nice flat predicted responce with a big spike from 10Hz-20Hz like initially wanted. But ending in 45 cubes 24Hz, I had a nasty peak. I tried to fight it by lowering the sub level and maxing out the EQ at 25Hz... still leaving the 30Hz on down lacking, but also killing the 50Hz on up material. So I shut the EQ off before I fired up the new subs. Already they were AMAZING. Much louder and much flatter, much better sounding INSTANTLY. I could hear the difference the first 5 clicks before I even gave her anything. I drove around a while, loving it. Then I dropped the crossover to 80Hz. Ah, there we go. I was overcompensating the EQ by raising it to 200Hz. Now there's more separation from the Extremis. Thats what made me do it, the Extremis had disappeared with these subs. I thought about it. Dropped it. Much better. Well with that done, I cranked the sub level back up. WHOA! Now were talkin! So kids, dont listen to me, IB3s arent designed for even large vented enclosures. My towers are proving themselves, they do pretty good, but they have SIX times the airspace as my van. So far i am a happy guy. I am no Steve Meade or any of the other 4 18" setups I have seen vids of. But when I get my 2nd alt in, I'll be doing much better. Even the IB3s could get loud as hell for short periods but voltage drop was nasty. These get louder with less excursion having sealed the mounts. These get louder continuous since they can handle the power and theyre more efficient. I know, I know, you were right, i was wrong. Now Fi doesnt even want to talk to me.. what do you do. I led the masses astray. Well i was a hater, I couldnt afford Qs or Maelstroms or DPs.

one of the EPs has acted weird since Ive gotten them, one has brighter LED lights, clips a tocuh easier than the other, and gets warmer than the other. As expected during break in one started to get wartm so I toggled them as planned, letting them take turns. The "bad" one, when I turn the PC volume down to 0 every so many minutes to let it cool off, seems to have a loud BUZZ, not necessarily 60Hz or a grounding loop, maybe so actually but like a leaking cap when it gets warm? When I shut it off then back on it stops. No clipping lights, seems fine, just after going full bore for a while when it gets warm, not hot, when I remove the tone one remains anyway

the little guys arrived today, currently breaking in two bridged series 4 ohm of an EP4000, she is so much happier at 4 ohms... pushing two easily and barely even warming at all Jim did an excellent job packing them up, all three appear to be MINT. 1st one is installed while I break in the rest so I had another great idea... why build a break in rig, why not bend the shipping crate? no blurr but theyre movin

cut up 4 old mounting gaskets since the counter sunk holes were cut to fit without gaskets, and not using gaskets led to air leaks

Thanks and they IA makes nice stuff Nicks a great guy, wish he had more help catching up on emails or Id have 21" DPs modded for HT in my towers

er yeah, thats what I meant wink wink funkypups ftw

and here I thought the oozing sarcasm was painfully obviouse... but OK... 3 very capeable subs, completely application dependant. Any subwoofer used within its limits can be EQed flat, alll three subs could get very loud with the right setup, give any of them a bad amp box and vehicle they could all very easily suck... better yet, let me install any of the thee and youd swear against any of the three

might I tease you a little bit more? 10Hz -3.6dB FS THD: 7.70% THD+N: 7.75% 2nd: 5.74% 3rd: 5.11% 4th: .339% 5th:.363 6th: .228 7th: .129 8th: .032 9th: .0258 124.4dB my window rattles in the track like mad, and everything else in the house, so IDK how much of this is feedback crap

SICK! I'd like to have 4 IA DPs or Wardens in my wall

oh there she is! in the background, pimp is sitting next to her... she rarely came out, was always kept inside, sometimes she was allowd to come hang out.

this was the guy soldering, after we became friends, helping me out same box I built for the other guy with 3 pioneer 12's crack whore on my porch, my ex GF my fat ass still me my buddys helping me work on "pimp"s truck, guy got a lotta work out of me 8 bucks at a time The Batmobile! pimp thinks its his pimpmobile this guy really bothered me and this is how I break all my shit, never burning coils

Seriousely, not even kidding. Just today, my newest neighbor in the apt next door got screwed over by the landlord, he got hired and moved in for free to do maintainance for the slum lord. He hires guys, makes them big promisses, lets them work, never pays up. The guy across the hall from him is one of the 2 old maintainance guys that got screwed. The landlord wont evict him because everyone knows he owes dude money. The old guy got punched in the mouth 2 weeks ago for fighting with the new guy. The cops are sometimes there twice a day breaking them up. For the last week the new guy has been hoofing it..he was driving the slum lords Mercedes but he took it back... he is over here trying to ask me "you need some drou? I can get you some great nuggs. Dude, that guy screwed me over I have nothin help me out man." Today I was teaching my girlfriends son what to look out for, to be careful. He needs to know what people are up to when they pretend nice. The guy went outside to a car that pulled up in front of my house. I said "watch. he is going to get in the car for a couple minutes, like they are friends, but he isnt going to leave with him. The guy isnt going to get out and chill. hes gonna get out and go back in, the other guy is gonna leave" sure as shit. Hes always eyeballing my tools and house, hes always tweakin bad. 2 weeks ago I pointed out a girl and guy walking together, the guy walking off, the girl looking around. old guy in a nice car picks up nasty chick and they leave. 15 minutes later that old chick and the dude are walking up and down the street again. not safe for him to live here, but what can we do. we watch out for people in the neighborhood, they watch out for us. is what it is. Any given summer day, my house looks like this...people driving by come to check it out, want their stuff done: another day i didnt even know this guy, he walked by a few different days and said "hey nice van" then one day just pulled up, started BSing, started smoking a blunt, said "hey man can I borrow your outlet?" Now we buddys. every other day with all the people parking over the sidewalks or on my boulevard or people cranking their stereos when I first moved here this is how I let everyone know I am th speaker guy. now the whole town comes over lol the guy walking toward me is litterally a pimp, he lived next door, he would come sit on my pourch, his woman would come over... a john would show, she would go up with him, come back, nother guy, repeat. When "pimp"... thats really his nick name...when he wasnt there we would all time how long johns were up there...8 minutes once! The got evicted and moved a block down then got busted for meth, the old maintainance guy lives in their apprt hood guy wanted a system, then he wanted me to keep doing it, wanted me to get "hot gear with hood prices" and he always stood over me when I worked so I stopped doing work for him people partying on my porch while I worked some dude I didnt know heard I build boxes, 2 weeks later this was done some guy that heard bout me

havent had a problem yet. Its been good for several reasons, one is shorter wires from the front alt(s) and battery to the rear batteries, then having as short a run as possible from the batteries to the amps, then again from the amps to the subs and front stage. 2nd is anti-theft... I live in the worst part of town, litterly have drug deals go down in front of my house. Pimps and hoes that do business right in front of my house. Two or more cops drive by every five minutes. Last summer I had someone rip the cover off my electrical box and pull my breakers to my house to kill the security lights all around my garage and house then they tried to get in my garage. I woke up with NO power! Why all the security lights? Crazy stuff happens all summer long at my house. The liquor store is a block away and people will get their beer and make them selves right at home on my pourch. Cops will pull up while I am out back working on other cars and tell them to move along lol. If people want to steal my amps, they gotta crawl through my port with a light and powerful cordless...after busting out my window in the van lol. Seriousely I havent blown any amps or vibrated them...yet...lets see what the new subs do :D