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Nothing will keep up with two 15s right behind your head. Turn them down and balance with the front stage, then you'll have it.

I've never had the pleasure. Never been fishing in saltwater. Someday......

I suppose so. I like catfish pretty well too. Well, eating them. If I catch them I kick them back into the water.

The bass boost is still a boost, not a gain.

He didn't use something to cover the wire, he replaced the wire with a larger gauge.

It's obviously better than below. But you need a BL. The sub will need to handle the abuse you will undoubtedly send it.

By the way, Florida was awesome. We stayed in Destin, which is between Pensicola and Panama City. Insanely beautiful and perfect fine white sandy beach, which was the host of the wedding I went to. I got way too sunburned the first day. I think the tops of my feet may have gotten 2nd degree burns. My left foot swelled a bit and is just now starting to go down. My shoulders and back got pretty red too. Oops. I've put aloe vera gel on about......13 times since Friday. I ate grouper for the first time, and it is now my new favorite fish.

I got my computer in ridiculous time from Dell and now I have it set up! I got an email saying it was expected to be delivered on May 5th. Imagine my surprise when I was getting ready for my trip to Florida last Thursday (April 30) and a deliveryman comes up to my door and delivers it! Only 4 days after I custom ordered it. Took me an extra day to set up my wireless because I accidentally downloaded the wrong wireless adapter model's drivers from Linksys's site and I didn't figure it out until after a frustrating hour and a give-up for the day.

I'd choose the IA LIs.

You ask in the Fi forum and expect any answers other than BTL?

You have to stay on topic now, what are you DoInG?!?! You can't trail off topic and try to help him or else you'll be asked to stop helping him forever.... F**k you dude. Your just sour cause I told you off. Relax. He was helping you by suggesting your settings must be off. Namely your gain.

If by "magnet" you imply the whole motor and not just the actual magnet, I'd say the second most is the coil and what kind of configuration its in. Because really the motor and coil have to interact correctly to get desired results. You can't have an awesome coil but bad motor mated to it and have an awesome sub, and vice versa.

You also have to realize the differences in amplifier topologies. So you can't compare a 2 channel class A/B amp with a mono class D amp. Those A/Bs are made to run at 4 ohms but the D's are made for 2 or 1 ohm and will put out less power at 4 ohms. There are only a few amplifiers designed to have the same power output from 1-4 ohms. So if you are talking specifically about those amps, higher impedances are better. But if you start comparing A/B to D, the difference in topology will have a much greater effect on the properties than the impedance will. For example, my old Crossfire BMF1000D was more efficient, had lower THD, higher dampening factor, etc. when it put out 250 rated watts at 4 ohms than it did putting out 1000 watts at 1 ohm. But it put out less power. So if you want 1000 watts, running at 4 ohms just to get better specs would be pointless. Not to mention that a lot of these properties are lost on subwoofers and are more prevelant on mids and tweeters.

The extra slug is not it, at all. In fact the new BTL has only one slug. And as for power, that is enclosure-dependant. How much power do you think the 12" BTL would need to get to full xmax in a 15 cubic foot box? But I agree that perhaps he should downgrade to a couple Qs or SSDs and less power (maybe 1500 watts for both). If he isn't prepared for the electrical upgrades that are likely required for his little car, he'll end up damaging some amplifiers or his alternator/battery.

ah, interesting. Good feature for some people.

So you're going back to AQ after your problems with their amps before?

Yeah those things generally do need huge boxes. That's how they can be so loud with such little power. I don't know what Bassahaulic is talking about with 15,000 watt amps. There's no reason for those. All you need is a 150 x 2 at 4 ohm, class AB amp. Those normally do 600 x 1 bridged at 4 ohms, which would be 300 x 1 bridged at 8 ohms. That would be perfect for those speakers. Basically every manufacturer makes an amp like that.

Yeah that could be true. I have a friend who says he wants to try getting info off of my hard drive because a lot of times stores like that will just hook the hard drive up to their computer but if it doesn't come up with that easy fix right away they just give up. But he said he'll try some other things, the one I can remember is putting a different/new motor in to see if that'll spin it since maybe mine is broken. at least the Geek Squad gave me a full refund. I paid about 110 up front and they were supposed to refund 70 if they couldn't get anything off, but when I went back they refunded the whole thing. So that's cool.

If he's talking about the bass setting on the head unit, it could either be boost or just the subwoofer output. If it's a boost (usually accompanied by a frequency, like 60 or 80 hz) then you don't want that all the way up. If it's the subwoofer output level, that can be all the way up and be fine. That's a setting for the whole signal.

I'd use 12-14.

x2. Can't go wrong with either.

Kinda curious as to why the 100.4 has a remote gain knob? Isn't that what the head unit volume knob is for?

I'd definitely take the crossovers out of the door, and they definitely need to be covered. Can you put a small mounting baffle in to adjust the size? Even a 1/4" piece of plywood should work if depth is a concern.

It'll be fine. I had a 15" sub on a front baffle that was only 15.25" tall or so. In fact, IMO, it is better to screw the sub through to the top and bottom sides of the box because that way the entire weight of the sub isn't pulling down at the front baffle.

I took it to Geek Squad on Friday and on Saturday they called saying that they couldn't get anything off of the hard drive, it had totally failed in a bad way. But my keyboard had come unplugged inside one time so I had to open it and make a good connection again. I hear that is somewhat common. But they remove the hard drive to try to retain information from it, so unfortunately that couldn't be it. I wish it was only an unplugged hard drive! Anyways, I bought a Dell Inspiron 530s. My choices were limited because I required a downgrade to XP (I like it, not a fan of Vista.....yet), and since they make you buy an OS anyways, may as well get both (they include the Vista installation CD for "When you're ready for the switch). I thought about a laptop but desktops just give you so much more performance for the price. I custom-built it, so it won't get here for about two weeks. I'm a bit excited because it has like 2.5x the processing power + double the cores, nearly 6 times the RAM, 20x the hard drive space, larger screen, better graphics card, etc. etc. etc. than my 7 year old laptop. The CPU was 850 after shipping and I chose not to get a monitor because I'm going to get one from best buy so that I can see them before I buy and because I get a discount there. So almost $1,000 total, but compare that to the almost $2,000 that my laptop was 7 years ago plus all of the additional performance. Wow. I can't wait! Now I just have to redo all of the stuff I lost Oh, and we found out that my gf's computer has at least one virus as the cause of her problem. Which we then transferred to her external hard drive when we backed up the photos onto it. Oops. Glad we didn't plug it into my computer to back up my stuff, though not that it mattered because it failed anyway.