Aaron Clinton

Your avatar over there is funny.

It's the Ban Stick dance. More so a pun with an emoticon.

Glad you built the box. Make sure you double check for any leaks.

As said above, keep that amp, it is a ZED Built classic. You should be able to get by for a while on this amp while you save up for a new amplifier for the sub woofers.

Just wanted to quote Brad for effect, as this is so true.

I did not go to school for this, just been around it or been doing it for a long time. And this is far from a career. Both Mark and I have full time jobs that pay the bills and are our actual careers. SSA, the store, the brand, the forum, the website etc. etc. are all part of a constant on going side effort. The MASS majority of the income from everything SSA is spent on upkeep, maintenance, fees, hosting, updates, a long list of expenses, inventory, promotion, web adds, etc. etc. Very very little actually makes it to Mark and I at the end of the month, if anything at all. If we did not both really love doing this, and had I am not trying to discourage you, but there is little to no money in this field of car audio (unless you are at the very top). The margins, from a retailers perspective (and most brands for that matter), is very small. This is only worsened by big box stores and incorrect info spread on the web and on TV shows. These big box stores push for more and more margin, so big name companies push for higher and higher sales, which in turn means more product built cheaper and cheaper. This all means quality is constantly and steadily driven downward, to add to that, the economy being in the tank, and the insane American mindset of only caring about the initial cost makes this issue a problem that will only get worse. Just take a brand like MB Quart for example, (disregarding any internal business decisions right or wrong), years ago, they built some of the very best speaker components available, period. I still have a set of the original 3 way MBQ's with the surfboard crossovers. But the market changed and they were bought and sold over and over again. Each time, the quality has dropped noticeably and the brand name has been diminished steadily. Look at companies like Phoenix Gold, SoundStream, Zapco and so on, all have been part or were part of the super elite, but have to have a very entry level model line to pay the bills. What I am getting at, is there is very little room left for high quality, livable margin, and steady sales to a point where it is career worthy. I have run both a brick and mortar shop and now an on line store. Both offer (or offered) great products and we work(ed) very hard to give the best customer service, both were or are a crap ton of work nearly 7 days a week and neither were or are much of an income at all. Hope that was not too negative.

I am a little confused by this, can you expand on that for me?

Nice forum upgrade.

Our 5 series can seem to go 6-7k before we get into the last yellow marker light. But I usually try to get it in when we are down to one green as it is not worth pushing it to me. Apparently, the sled is supposed to make it some 7-10k between changes, but I keep it under 5k at the utmost. My mechanic, who specializes in German only, always looks at me funny when I put nothing by M1 in it and I change it shortly after the 3k mark is passed. I think one time I did push it to 6500 or so, but that was a one time thing.

Bad weather > that lead to the wifes car being the victim of a hit and run > crappy east coast traffic > we are down to one car for a few days until a rental car is ready for the wife > I have a massive commute as it is > has been over two hours each way because of this > means very little time to update shop via the SSA company box.

Nathan was kind enough to send us the updated pricing sheet, and the SSA Store pricing will drop a great deal. I just have not been at the SSA computer long enough to have time to update the pricing in the last 2 days.

There are some awesome Eclipse HU's going for cheap, NIB on ebay.

I don't need that much. Maybe 7 million at most.

F3 -3 dB cutoff frequency, in Hz Fb Enclosure resonance (usually for bass reflex systems), in Hz I would suggest looking into building or having a fabricator whip you up a box tuned in the 30-33hz range. Thanks for the positive feedback on the Dcon's.

Plexi time?

If someone came in bound to a certain page from an outside website, a track back link shows where they came from. It is good for our analytics to see where people are coming from. Plus more links, the better the search engines find us.

And in the forecast, more snow this weekend.

:(

The enclosure + driver combo deals are very good.

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Keep up the good work, and the pictures with the pup!

That is awesome. Is that the Bassrace couch?