Aaron Clinton

....Never made it to get coffee, see rtms.

No, never doing an outrageous deal again. We never kept any Stetsom in stock, models changed faster then we could sell them. Then why keep them on board? Because my semi-blind belief that people will build a quality product and provide good customer service when it is needed.

Dude just flopped over like he was knocked out.

No, never doing an outrageous deal again. We never kept any Stetsom in stock, models changed faster then we could sell them.

no plasti-dip foo. Totally kidding, but I swear I saw an M5 that was completely done in black plasti-dip. It was on my ride home from the office, NY plates.

Do you mean applying the CLD and MLV under the dash? I didn't pull the dash, but went up the firewall as high as I could go/wedge my frame into the car to reach up there.

Great posts Alton. To Nastynice, feel free to check out my build log on my little Mazda wagon for an example of the system Alton is referring to.

Plasti-dip foo!

SSA and Fi both use yellow spiders. I've owned multiple Fi subs as well as this xcon now and none of them had a yellow spider We moved to all Nomex. I personally prefer them. Seem to hold up very well.

http://www.theglobea...article4510740/ Dafuq?

Did you show it to her?

Both are excellent choices, nice car BTW. As to how much output or clarity they will have, that is up to the install.

Careful, or I'm going to put your butt on a plane to work on my car.

The website is going through a major over haul. Fi is not going to ignore you, they will take care of it. If need be, email shawn @ ficaraudio.com in a day.

I could not agree more with the post. Yes UPS and Fedex do drop the ball when it comes to shipping sometimes, but that is why the subs should be properly packaged just in case. My $400 18" SSA Xcon that I paid $40 to get shipped to me just showed up with a cracked basket. Either because the 65 lbs sub was packaged just like the above guys sub, or because it was damaged before it was even shipped. I was shocked when I saw how it was packaged too! I always see large Xcons in crates but I guess that was not important anymore. As I said in a prior post, you have not seen Xcon's in crates, we only just now switched them over. Please stop with the accusations, no idea why anyone would think that getting the product to the customer is not important to such a small internet only brand.

The Golf-R is supposed to surpass the R32.

Oh yeah, their interiors are excellent in that regard.

I guess it is all really a perspective thing. I look at the vehicles everyone here thinks are so great and I think "what a pile of shit". But I get to work on these cars. I see them with hundreds of thousands of miles on them, and I see the associated repair bills and maintenance costs. I see how they hold up, how well they are really engineered, and how those "cheap looking" plastic interiors hold up when compared to their wrapped brethren. I drive all Buick cars, and Nissan trucks. I don't want the high costs associated with bullshit cars that look pretty, but are substantive crap. I don't want to have to come home only to fix my cars, and if I have to, I want it to be easy. [/rant] The wrapped cars require some pre-thought before purchase. The cheapest 2 cars I've ever owned for maintenance were both M type BMW's. And of course right now I get to drive something work leases for me and picks up the service. I only pay for repairs & tires, but the certified bumper to bumper takes care of everything but the tires. As for the substantive crap, I'm curious what tops your list. The biggest BS on the road? VW/Audi. One of the biggest disappointments from my perspective is Infinity. I can see the Silverado being a burner. They suffer high cost failures, like fuel pumps and cats, older models had issues with water pumps and intake manifolds. I have seen some that eat distributors like they were candy. While I generally prefer GM, I wouldn't own a Chevy V8 truck, unless it was a big block. I am not really a truck fan myself though. I hate working on them, I hate driving them, and they are all pieces of shit. Fords have got to be the worst. Their 3 valve head issues, and coil failures are a nightmare. Camshafts locking up, timing chains falling apart, GEM module failures, rear ends coming apart. I would rather eat Pamela Anderson's blown out hepatitis loaded ass then own a Ford truck. Euros are general junk from a wrench's perspective. Failure rates today are through the roof. Stupid shit like MAF boots falling apart, and they cost a fortune. All their rubber is awful (now we know why Chrysler has so many issues with EVAP hoses falling apart!), and their diagnostic strategy is retarded. The information they offer us is a joke. Their guided fault finding is an insult to a real technician's intelligence, and it leads to the wrong conclusion 50% of the time. Note to German engineers, not everyone working on a car has an education level equivalent to your second grader! Their electronics are horrible, with constant MAF failures, and big ticket items like drive by wire throttle body failures all the time. As a general rule I find most vehicles to be disappointments. I love getting into G35s and seeing the entire interior falling apart around me. You paid what for this POS? But I am a cynic. Totally understand how you feel coming from your POV. I have always loved VW's, would love a AWD Golf-R, but I cannot subject myself to the cheap materials, along with horrible reliability. So maybe VW is a good car to lease, as in unload it at 40k before everything falls to crap. Well..... I cannot say I completely agree. The fit and finishbof the golf or jetta is better than every GM comparable IMHO. Locally the volkswagen community is huge. So I can get a mechanic to instal performance parts cheeper than I could just buy parts on anything comparable. It is an isolated thing but I know I could own and fix a golf and pim p it out for less than the GM or ford alternatives. But again I just know the right audi/volkswagen people. I never said anything about fit or finish. Just about some of the materials and reliability.

It's called well earned and deserved time off. J Sickening that in this country, it is the first holiday in nearly 2 months, followed by another 2 month drought. Haha, not like I take days off anyway. You should see how many holidays we have here... Norway/Sweden/Finland all have many more holidays then the USA, they have much higher productivity rate than American workers and they have much greater scholastic scores and longer life span.......

There are a number of older Icon's in home audio installs, Neil wrote a nice review. The Gcon is getting noticed by the home theater guys too.

8/9: dead lift / tri pull - 5 supers treadmill - 20 mins arnolds / seated db curls - 5 supers 8/10: tri pulls / rows - 5 supers treadmill - 20m pull up / crunches 5 supers 8/13: bb curls / over head tri - 5 supers treadmill - 15m preacher / bench tri's - 5 supers 8/14: db side flies / standing row - 5 supers treadmill - 20m lat pull / shrugs - 5 supers 8/15: db press / forearms - 5 supers stair master - 15m cable decline - 5 8/16: cable curl / cable raise - 4 supers treadmill - 20m cable lats - 4 8/17: treadmill - 15m incline db / dead lift - 5 supers standing military / bar curls - 5 supers squats - 3 8/20: treadmill - 15m seated curl / over head tri - 5 supers cable curl / cable tri - 5 supers 8/21: stair master - 15m lat pull / side shoulder rolls - 5 supers rows / military - 5 supers 8/22: treadmill - 15m db press - 5 crunches - 50 cable incline - 5 8/23: treadmill - 20m arnolds / curls - 5 supers hammy press - 4 8/27: treadmill - 20m bb curls / overhead press - 5 supers cable curls / tri pulls - 5 supers 8/28: arnolds / standing row - 5 supers treadmill - 15m cable side flies / cable row - 5 supers 8/29: treadmill - 20m db fly / calf raise - 5 supers leg press - 5 cable press - 4 8/30: db curls / over head tris - 5 supers treadmill - 20m pull ups / forward raises - 5 supers

La Roux!

The way Stetsom has handled this is inexcusable. Really running out of reasons to continue to carry the line on the SSA Store.

As suggested above, look towards the larger enclosure side of things with tuning somewhat lower then what we suggest for car audio. There are a few people running Dcon's in home audio, but they don't post much that I know of. A few people can attest to the performance of the Dcon 15 sealed, if you wanted to go that route.

Is best. Makes me want to get a hoe! #hoproblems