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Just got my 2202 back from being overhauled and modded. Here she is along with the 3002. These are what will be powering the Ex-Anarchies and Discoveries.

The obsession with the "frankenwoofer" on any and all Facebook audio groups gives me nightmares.

Trying to decide how to finish this enclosure. Trying to find some sort of bed liner / rubberized coating to make it invincible, textured and black.

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The peerless / scanspeak discovery HDS tweeters match well with the ex-anarchies if you wanted to do a 2-way. That's perfect! Thanks for giving me an actual recommendation bro. You rock!

Nvm I think I got it.

Anyone have any experience with these? They look like they're pretty good. I could stick the Exodus' in the doors and make some enclosures off the A-pillars to point these at the headrest http://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-4-fullrange/markaudio-alpair-7-gen3-grey-cone-4-full-range/

Any recommendations on some 3-4" midranges and tweeters to be run active 3 way. Midbass will be Exodus Anarchy run off axis in the doors, and mids and tweeters will be run on axis on the a-pillar. Also willing to run a fullranger on axis to pair with the Exodus', just needs to handle ~1000+ Hz

First day baby is fever free. Hopefully we'll get good culture results back and be able to go home.

Hey guys, sorry it's been awhile. I took 6 weeks off of work and everything else to spend some time with our new little girl. On Monday, I signed into SSA for the first time in like a month. I'll be back around a little more now. I missed this place. Sofi is now six weeks old and doing well, in the hospital at the moment because of an unknown fever. Running 48 hour cultures to see what she's fighting. Thanks for being such an awesome group of people. Here's Sofi, enjoying a cool washcloth to fight that fever

I've modeled it aero and it works but the port length for a 4" aero is massive.

So I've modeled my Crystal cmpx2 12" and it is completely flat from 30Hz + in a 2.1 cubic foot box tuned to 22.8 Hz. That's perfect but I'm having a hell of a time putting it together. I have my max dimensions but I'm stuck. It's a slanted box in the back. Can someone put something together so that I can get this built asap? Height can definitely go down, and width can definitely be made smaller, but I'd rather it be wide over tall just to look symmetrical. I dunno why but I'm insanely anal about symmetry. 40"w x 18" tall x (9 1/4" d1 /// 14" d2)

Looks like FE85's in the A pillars on axis would be nice. Maybe I'll give that a shot. Any recs on mounting? Do they need to be sealed? Vented?

I do not want my subs playing midbass. 63Hz is my crossover point. Looks like I'm going back to Anarchy's and Horns.

Full ranges play just that, a full range of frequencies or at least a fuller range than most. It all depends on the driver and application but for instance in my Jimmy right now I have the Fountek FE85's playing from 200hz on up. The purpose is for the sake of imaging and stage to have one speaker playing the majority of the directional frequencies pointing directly at the listener, basically. They help to eliminate issues that you have with multiple drivers trying to play frequencies that are highly directional from different locations and frequencies that the drivers typically have a hard time to play properly. Typically that comes at a cost of a lessened very top end and while I will admit that the Fountek's can't quite nail 16khz and up like a tweeter can they sure as hell don't do a bad job either and it's more than good enough for me. As most 6.5" drivers start having response issues in the 2khz ish neighborhood and most car audio tweeters have a difficult time playing much below 3khz. Typically the manufacturers will have the 6.5 play up into the 3 to 3.5khz region to protect the tweeter and in most cases there's not enough issue with doing so to cause problems for the majority of users/listeners. Some exotic cone materials will have issues with response much earlier than that, others later but the point is the driver will suffer from beaming and cone breakup at some point in it's response. As for tweeters even the best ones do good to get below 2khz and typically won't get very far below. Even then they will often suffer from distortion issues at high listening levels because those frequencies are simply asking too much from the driver. These are the reasons why Sean and Brad are so adamant about driver placement, size restraints, etc. because those things determine what drivers can and can't be used for that application and then the compromises that have to be made to the response, stage, imaging, etc. to use the drivers that can fit the application. There's just no perfect world with this stuff, no perfect setup where everything is played perfectly. Compromise has to be made in every choice or decision and sometimes it's hard to REALLY understand just what that compromise ends up costing us sometimes until we hear it for ourselves. Most people are convinced that it's not a big enough concern to worry about it. Then again most people think we're blowing our money on this hobby anyway because what comes in the cars from the factory is good enough for them. That's just a matter of perspective, personal taste and drive. I'm not too worry about fabrication. I want this to sound as good as possible. Money will always be a determining factor, but I can glass or build anything I need to make it work. On axis is not really any sacrifice. Glassing a pillars or sail panels is the same amount of work whether they're facing the driver or not, so I can happily accommodate on axis mounting. I just need to find something with good midbass in the factory door location, and some tweeters that can be run off a Linear Power 2202 (obviously gain will be down to nothing lol) that will fill the gap. I can even hot pos a pair of ribbons to handle 16kHz and up if I need to, shouldn't be a problem. So are Anarchy's the way to go? Or is there something else I should look into in the under 150 budget? Midbass will be run off a modified 3002. 150rms @ 8 ohms. I guess if anyone is looking for 6FE's, they'll be in the for sale section as soon as they arrive.

I've seen people who run full rangers instead of tweeters.Is there a point to this? And what do they play? Like 1kHz to 20? Seems like I might end up just trying to make horns work again.

This is true

I can put them on axis if necessary but does that sound like shit to passengers.

I understand that. I'm not running zcons on 5500. Pretty simple really. Audison sr1dk (1200@1ohm) going to a Crystal cmpx2 12. Linear Power 3002 for mids and 2202 for tweeters. All for dodge ram 1500.

Size doesn't matter 1" to 3". Fiberglass doesn't care.

Hmm maybe I should sell em or trade em. What tweeters work well with exodus?

I was going to save a bit of cash and order some Exodus Anarchy's, but lo and behold a nice little pair of Faital Pro 6FE200's have fallen into my lap. I'm looking for tweeter suggestions. I will probably be mounting off axis in sails or a pillars. Budget is under $150 for the pair. $150 being absolute maximum.

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75-100. I collect a lot of old school stuff and run in those channels. Find a PPI collector.

Probably going to build a big ass HT enclosure. I collect Crystal and old LP so even of it sits in my collection closet I'll be happy lol. Haha what are you doing with the 15?