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May be going to the Royals game tomorrow, and they're playing the White Sox. It's going to be hot as hell (103 last I saw I think), but seeing Griffey Jr. in action would easily be worth it.

I like the flush mounted aeros

I'm really surprised you don't get port noise with only one 4" port per 15. Or do you?

Oh, I mean surface area inside the port. Not port area at the opening. Maybe try and think of it as a lot of 2D rectangles that make up the entire port length. In your example, a 4 x 4 port would have a perimeter of 16 inches. similarly, that 2 x 8 port has a perimeter of 20 inches. That extra 4 inches gives more surface area inside the port, which gives more resistance to the air trying to flow through it and more area around the port opening. Some port noise comes from the difference in pressure between the air coming out of the port and the air that immediately surrounds the port opening. The port air has to kind of curl back around at the port opening to try and fill in the low pressure area. Kinda the same principle with the mirrors in your car as you go down the road and why sometimes you can hear noise from them. High pressure in front of the mirror, low pressure immediately behind the mirror. This is why rounding port openings helps with port noise. Instead of having a sharp corner that allows that little low pressure area to be created because of the 90 degree corner in the wood and the port air wants to continue to go straight (while still applying pressure to the port walls and wants to go outwards laterally as well), the rounded port doesn't allow for that little pocket of low pressure because the air can immediately go laterally once escaping the port. As you keep getting a wider but less tall port, the surface area inside the port increases. So another way to get 16 sq. inches of port area would be 10 x 1.6 (23.2 inches of rectangular perimeter) or 16 x 1 (34 inches!) Does that make sense?

couldn't agree more man!!! Yeah I would have loved to tie her up and left her on the side of the road.

Boot her out and ask one of her hot friends to move in.

Nice work. What is in it? My mom would have had the opposite reaction, though. She'd have been happy that I was eating and gaining weight.

yeah sounds like something is up with that fuse holder. As for fuse rating, 120 amps or so should work for you.

don't mix drivers and sizes in the redo of your system. Just use the 12's. That massive amp would work.

ok, end rant.

Man I'm glad that week is over. the actual 40 hour HAZWOPER training wasn't bad, wearing the suits and being on tanked air was kinda fun. But the lady I was with.......ugh. She's 35 but often acted either 12 and all giddy or acting like my mother, and her mouth NEVER STOPPED. for an ENTIRE WEEK. It was "gosh this restaurant scares me" when it was a brand new place that looked and served very normal american things. I was like, wtf. She wanted to eat at the same restaurant every day. We went into a variety store with a bunch of older or secondhand type stuff and she just had this mortified look on her face the whole time. I went in for fun, but she was totally serious and "wow, this place is so tacky, and it worries and scares me." She brought ONE PAIR of socks for the trip, and we had to go to walmart to buy more because obviously she went through them in a day. I asked her "didn't you do laundry before you came?" She said "I thought I could just wear my sandals the whole time." Um, we're at training for how to properly handle hazardous material. I don't think you get to wear sandals in situations like that. She often said "did you eat some fruit for breakfast? We should have salads for lunch and be healthy. Don't forget to take your gatorade in the car. You're eating a waffle for supper? Is that allowed for you?" We'd be doing an exercize looking at a scene and radioing to a guy in another room what we saw. She'd radio something, then she'd tell me "ok, now you tell him that the one barrel is down and has a flammable placard, and it has one open bung. Then the second drum is standing up, has a toxic placard.....blah blah blah." stupid woman, I can pucking see! Not only that, but why did you waste all that breath when you could just be calling it in? Then we'd get inside and she'd tell our instructor just out of the blue "Nick did a really good job at looking for things, I was really impressed," in a genuine compliment. Wow. I could open my eyes and read and then push the button on the radio and say what I saw. If you're impressed by that........ Another guy in the class was reading side effects of being exposed to a chemical, one of which was possible loss of sexual reproduction and/or lowering of libido. She piped in "I better stay well away then, my libido is low enough already." GAG. We were out at supper one night (at that one restaurant) and I sent a text message to my girlfriend, and apparently she was upset that I wasn't giving her my full attention. She said "are you telling her what a bad date you are?" yeeeaaaahhhhh............ I was texting when we were walking through walmart and she commented on it then, too. I was like seriously, you're not running my life. I was trying my hardest to be civil all week. About the only way I could was to just be really quiet. She commented on how quiet I was being, and I just thought yeah, you better be glad I'm handling this by being quiet or else your head might be rolling on the floor.

Got it there.

don't lose that penny in the floor mat. I'd lose the wood grain up front, but that may just be me. box looks nice.

ugh. There are so many things wrong here I don't know where to begin. 1) Depends on your definition of loud. If you play the sub to it's maximum potential without overdoing either the thermal or mechanical limits (whether that's "fairly loud" to you is subjective), that sub will play continuously for days, weeks, months, years on that amp. Just because it's 2000 watts RMS doesn't mean it puts out 2000 watts RMS all the time. 2) T2000 can be enough or too much for a BTL. Depends on the enclosure. The BTL will handle 2000 RMS thermally but it may be limited mechanically by the box. 3) Again, just because the amp is rated for 2500-4000 watts RMS doesn't mean they're actually putting that much to the sub. Conversely, you could give the BTL 5000 watts for a few seconds and it would probably take it in the right box. So running that much power depends on a lot of factors about whether it is safe or not.

I don't think that amp would be highly overrated. Can you give links to the reviews that said so? Dayton makes great products. I have the PE version of their 500 watt plate amp and it's definitely not overrated. And yeah there are XLR to RCA adapters. I have some for my Behringer crossover. I don't remember where I got them though.

Holiday monday? What holiday?

sure is.

pole?

I'd say just use 3/4" all the way around with the bracing you mentioned, then double up the 3/4" for the front baffle that the sub mounts onto.

Is it just completely unnecessary? If so I can drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass with the tweet and 2" midrange in the doors for a "quasi" 3-way setup. If I wanted to go active, would it be better for me to use the x-over on the head unit or the HPF and LPF on the amp(s) I'm not sure what you mean by "quasi" since the 6.5, 2, and 1" speakers you put together would be an actual 3-way setup. I also don't understand what you mean by "drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass" because again, in the 3 way setup you did propose, the 6.5 would already be a dedicated midbass. And it's already considered a component setup because you are using different drivers mounted in different locations. as for the 6x9's, I say it's personal preference. Set up the front stage without them in, see how you like it. Add if you feel the need. I'd recommend going active if you have the processing power, and it doesn't matter if you use the head unit or amp's crossovers. But most amps don't have extensive crossovers that will go up high enough to highpass the tweeter and lowpass the mid, so you'll have to take that into account. It might take a combination of the two if you don't have 3 outputs from the cd player anyway.

I agree. I don't know if it's just me or what, but the more 180 degree turns I've put into boxes, the more muddy the sound is.

I only use natural lump, as for the brand I am not loyal. yeah, gotta use lump.

that's due to the lower tuning.

no. as long as the sub will fit in the box there is no problem with how deep it is.

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