KU40

spend all your money (and all that you don't have) on the car and none on a home to live in. Brilliant!

is your sub the 2002 model? If not, the specs could easily be different between model years between yours and the one in CAE. Manufacturers almost always tinker with things for new model years, just like vehicle manufacturers. But there is no way that Fs should be that off between yours and published specs. That hints at a completely different soft part assembly if that's happening. So your machine must be wrong, IMO. Or else they sent the wrong specs with the sub in the box.

We competed in that as well. i was thinking about that but you can use as many 10HP engines as you want (so long as you don't break the weight limit). We definitely don't have that kind of money here. We use 4 of them, and if I remember right, they are donated. What do you guys compete in over there? as far as I know KU only does the open wheel racer. We are the lose I guess.

A sub's specs will not be different by twofold because of quality control. If they're off by that much, it's a completely different sub. Specs are normally off by 10% at the most, and normally not even close to that, even after break-in time. Either your instrument wasn't calibrated correctly, or something.

did you do a sine sweep in both runs (a continuously lowering frequency sweep, like from 100 hz - 10 hz)? I'm curious as to why your frequencies are different. Along with the different mic placement, that's why the scores are different. But sometimes it's atmospheric conditions that affect the score, top frequency, etc. temperature and humidity also come into play.

You're going into protect on sine waves and not in music because music is not a steady stream of power at all, whereas sine waves are. The amps have to be constantly putting out as much power as they can with a sine wave, which draws more current, which dips your voltage, which puts the amp into protect. With music you may have one big hit that lasts for a second and it's not enough time to drain your electrical system enough. With music your amps hardly work at all, relatively speaking.

awww. hehe. I think you'd be best served with a sealed box somewhere in the middle.

My 15 blends excellently with my front stage, and it's ported. This is only at low volumes, though. It's so easy to overpower the front stage and the midbass that the fronts put out that you lose blending if you crank the sub up too much. Having the crossover lower actually helps in most cases. Anything in the midbass range isn't played nearly as well by a subwoofer as a mid, and the difference is audible.

I'm confused as to how you have things wired. You have the tweeters ran off of the front two channels of the head unit, right? But then you have the two mids up front wired in series and powered off of the head unit? Why did you wire them together? You should also try getting an external amp. Not only will they make these sound better, but you'll need one if you're going to go 3-way like has been suggested.

Hey, nice name. You're just missing the "h." haha. he kinda looks like Liev Schreiber. But I did just watch a movie he was in two days ago

haha. That would be the most worthless option ever. Universal is only important if you think you'll ever switch amps from a 2 ohm optimized to a 1 ohm optimized, or maybe add another sub and again want a different amp.

You forgot Circuit City. It lost 55% today, down to 14 cents a share I think. hehe Didn't they file Chap. 11? Yeah, bankruptcy protection. They aren't actually bankrupt.......yet. They just got a 1.1 billion dollar loan for working capital while they are in the protection. Either way, nobody is going to be buying their stock. They also just received a warning from the NYSE about their stock being under $1 for over a month. But I don't know what they do? Just kick them out of the exchange I guess? In other news, DHL is getting out of the shipping business in the US. 9,500 jobs lost in that one.

Be careful of you statements. Have you ever heard of cheater amps. That may be true but still, 1 ohm stable amps are a lot more common than they were back then. There were literally only a handful of them back then, and they were too expensive for most people. Now every company has 2-3.

So did the server just blow up and Josh finally just said screw it and threw it all in the trash compactor?

did you get upset at the posts in your other thread so you just made an all "brand new" one?

It was just the way your last post was worded that made me think you didn't use glue. You were talking about the screws being stripped, but once the glue is set the screws don't really do much. The glue is what really holds the two pieces together. We know most people don't have a ton of money to throw at it, that's why we get critical. We don't want you to repeat mistakes that you don't know you are making. There really should not be panels coming loose on an enclosure. If we didn't pick at this one and find out what's wrong, we can't help you avoid mistakes the next time. You may think that you know all of the mistakes that you made with this box, but perhaps not. I'm sure it's happened to a lot of us. Perhaps some of us only used screws on our first box. Once we learned about glue, we made another box and used glue. But then oh we learned that bracing is a good idea. So we build a third box that has bracing. Then we find out that doubling up the front baffle helps a lot too. So our fourth box we double up the front. Then we learn about something else and make a fifth, sixth, seventh box, etc. We just try and get you to go from that first to that seventh box without all those wasted boxes in between.

I'm 100% sure. It will do 118.2 db. Now, I didn't say it wouldn't do more than that. But honestly it's a very silly question. So you get silly answers. Nobody knows what it will measure. There isn't a database somewhere that relates every vehicle with every sub, amp, and enclosure combination that will tell you exactly what you will measure. And chances are probably 1 in 10,000,000 that there is even somebody with the same vehicle as you (which you didn't specify), with the same enclosure as you (which you didn't specify), with the same electrical system (which you didn't specify), and lastly, with the same sub and amp, that will be able to tell you.

I'm so happy I don't have work, either. Plus today flew by. It was a good day. Now I'm excited about the anticipation of not having to wake up to my alarm, and laying in bed all morning!

That was some poor surveying and site inspection prior to the build. although it has probably been, what, like 40 years since it was built? It depends what's causing the sinking that will determine if it can be stopped or not. I don't think you are getting liquifaction from earthquakes like the leaning tower of Piza there in Indiana. haha. I'm not sure of the bedrock geology up there, but if there is karst in some limestone somewhat close to the surface, that could cause it. That happened underneath I-70 here in kansas. A nearby saltwater injection well's casing was leaking, allowing water to leak out and dissolve the limestone. They pumped cement into the void a couple or three times to raise the road back up, but it kept sinking because they hadn't found the source of the problem and the limestone was just continually eroded away. But it also (most likely, I think) is just caused by saturated soil and a heavy building. It has been a wet year down here, not sure about up there. Can't do much about that.

Hey, I resen....I resen....Boy I say I resemble that remark.

"Perks that help a leader to be more efficient and more productive are hardly perks." -- Bob Lutz, Vice-Chairman, General Motors So........inefficiency and unproductiveness are good? I see that's worked out well for you.....

You forgot Circuit City. It lost 55% today, down to 14 cents a share I think. hehe

ha I noticed that too. Not picking on you

forgot one thing about larger enclosures- increased efficiency.

I think it will hit 118.2 db. That amp will be fine.