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I hadn't noticed it was the 13th, though I probably would have once I got my timesheet. Not sure I would have noticed it enough though, as I don't put much stock into these things. I'm just glad it's Friday!

i'd do sealed

I hate my damn eyes. They're already getting blurry with my contacts in. It's not from being tired, because i'm usually the most awake 1-2 hours after I get up in the morning.

Gonna have to check our wireless router tonight after work. Haven't had internet at my computer at home in 2 days. I hate wireless routers. They need reset like every month. Lawrence got lucky with the storms last night, as we just got heavy rain. There was a small, 10 second tornado that touched down about 10 miles east of town though. I thought the whole line of thunderstorms was just going to move northeast over us very slowly because that had been its pattern, but once it hit us it decided to blow east more. That was lucky.

A few weeks ago my brake light switch went out. I think my rear blinkers kept working though. You can check it, though, by just pushing up on the sensor that's on the brake pedal to see if that turns your rear brake lights on.

I'd do the one ported at 33-35 hz

This thread should change its name to Just for everyone....

Man those are really 20 cubes each? That really isn't as big as I thought it was then.

Either after a few tickets, stolen equipment, or pissed off people yelling at him. Or maybe just maturity in a few years.

I'd agree with that. All of what we're dumping into the atmosphere can't be positive, it'll bite us in the ass down the road sometime... I think that sometime is now, at least if you're in China and talking about pleasurable days. Some of them haven't seen the sun in years due to the smog in their cities. Which I think will have a world impact at some time. Not because the air pollution will affect the world, but because I think at some point the Chinese citizens will grow tired of the dirty ways and demand better air quality from the government. This will cause increased restriction for them and increase the cost of goods from there a ton. The world market will change. But who knows how far away that is or if it'll even happen. They are still using coal mining techniques that the US banned 100 years ago. So it may be 100 or more years from now, and obviously depends on if the government changes at all from what it is now and has been. But just my thought.

I'd agree with that. All of what we're dumping into the atmosphere can't be positive, it'll bite us in the ass down the road sometime... I think that sometime is now, at least if you're in China and talking about pleasurable days. Some of them haven't seen the sun in years due to the smog in their cities.

oh, true.

that one picture of the parking lot is funny because there are like 3-4 girls all taking pictures at the same time. ha. And that car with the hood flipped perfectly over on top of it is just crazy. Reminds me of the microburst that went through KU's campus last year. Pretty similar damage.

and the chrome

hope it works out for you

if you're just going to ditch it, why not try to repair it yourself? Start with the resistors you blew, and if you have a digital multimeter you can test most or all of the other components. Even if you replace a handful of resistors and tansistors and it still doesn't work, you're only out like 10 bucks. Plus you could learn a little if you didn't already know. Try going to.......I think the12volt.com to look at tutorials on how to test things. I looked somewhere online a few years ago to learn how to test the mosfets that I blew. Don't remember if it was 12volt or somewhere else though.

I may stand corrected...it depends in what context your using the word "myth" And I'm sure even with millions of trees killed to print all of those "scientific findings and hypothesis" we are that much closer to saying that we understand mother nature? It's a myth, meaning its concocted. It's nothing more than raising global awareness and added marketing. If you ask me, we all learned the truth in earth science when we studied the heating/cooling cycles of the atmosphere. It's nothing abnormal. And need I add that hydrogen cars that emit pure water are horrible for the environment too. At least from a global warming standpoint. The highest heat holding component of our atmosphere is water vapor. Add more water vapor= more heat absorbed by the atmosphere. And don't get me started on the effects of concrete and local temperatures. but does the millions of trees killed (increase in temperature), hydrogen cars putting more water vapor in the atmosphere (increase in temperature) and the massive amounts of concrete and asphalt(increase in temperature) = global warming? or can we call it global increase in temperature? Audio-neon, you and I think a lot alike in this regard. As far as the term "global warming" is concerned, there are, IMO, two different and distinct definitions. The first is that it just means that the average temperature of the earth is increasing over some time period. The second includes the common connotation that it's man-made warming. Whenever I say global warming, I mean the first definition, aka the scientific definition. And I agree that marketing and money-making are part of the hysteria that people put into others. Statistics are another thing that are very, very easily manipulated. Somebody could say "The temperature now is 10 degrees warmer than it was 400 years ago!" Well of course it is, numb nuts, 400 years ago was a little global thing called the "little ice age." Then you might hear "The temperature now is 5 degrees warmer than it was 50 years ago." Again, of course it was, because there was a post world-war II era cold spell. Tell me what you think about this fact- The average temperature in 2002 was higher than it was last year. Uh oh! That doesn't fit! global cooling?!?! One research paper I read came to the conclusion that high CO2 levels didn't cause higher temperatures, and that it was actually flipped. Higher temps caused higher CO2 levels. People just want the temperature to stay exactly the same, and it just won't. The earth is way too dynamic for that. Not to mention that we'd have just as many problems if we had global cooling. Remember the disease and famine during the little ice age of 4-500 years ago? Half the planet's population died. But nobody tells you that. Another thing that nobody tells you is that 150 million years ago there were NO polar ice caps. oops. Another thing they won't tell you is that back then CO2 levels were orders of magnitude greater than they are today. and as somebody else mentioned, the equipment we have nowadays is much more sophisticated than it was even 100 years ago, allowing us to scrutinize every minute. Ice cores can show a decent history, but the temperature and CO2 curve they show is very smooth because they may only be able to get a recording for every 50 years or something. But now that we have better equipment, we can monitor and record temperatures every year, which makes the graph for recent history much more jagged, which makes it look like the temperature of the earth is wildly fluctuating and then humans are blamed for all of it. Now I'm not saying that man has NO impact. I just don't know that we can distinguish between what is man-made and what is natural. And as some alluded to, taking temperature readings anywhere near a city is dumb because of the urban heat problem with concrete and tall buildings, which trap heat. So basically what I'm saying is that nothing we're seeing today is new to the earth. It's had many many years of worse. If man wants to survive we have to adapt, just as all the animals of the past did. Humans are possibly the most adept animal in the history of the earth, so I think we'll be fine. Not that I don't think we could use a little population downgrade, but that's another topic.

You'll probably have to take the tire to a tire dealer. They may want to verify that there wasn't something in the tire that caused it to blow. i.e.- you ran over a nail, which deflated the tire, which caused it to blow. If they can see a nail or pre-existing puncture in the tire that could have caused the accident they'll blame it on that and not the tire, so they'll deny liability. Also, finding a tire dealer in your area for those tires and going to them with the problem may help. They'll know who to call in this type of situation, and since they're a dealer they have a much higher chance of getting a response.

I'd do 2 12's sealed.

I think the space within a car audio environment is really the driving force behind car sub manufacturer's designs. You have to keep the box relatively small and not many manufacturers want to give up low end (for many different reasons, including consumers who specifically want a low end monster, having a flat response down to 30 hz or whatever for sq guys, etc.), so that means efficiency has to suffer. But if you could get a big van or something and have enough room for maybe 2 of those 104 db/watt efficiency drivers and the boxes they need (what like 20 cubes?), those would take the place of maybe 10 "normal" drivers. So even with a $1000 price tag they may be worth it if you consider the alternatives.

Hope you have a big trunk, a 5 hz tune with proper port area will be hella long. In that case you may as well go sealed because they play louder below the tune of a ported box. But not many pieces of music that most people listen to get that low.

Yeah they're a step above Audiobahn. I've never been a big fan of AB because their subs don't have great sq and the amps have reliability problems.

The problem is when people say "the BTL won't get loud off of only 500 watts, you should get the BTL." The truth is that because the BTL has higher efficiency, it should be louder off of 1 watt, 10 watts, 100 watts, 500 watts, 5000 watts, etc., than the BL or any other FI sub. so when somebody comes on and says "I want an FI sub, what would be loudest off of 200 watts?" The answer should be "BTL." edit- brian beat me to it.

Don't take me the wrong way. I'm a guy who has a pair of XXX18s and 5KW rms in my living room.. But I also see a lot of misinformation spread all the time, and this is one of those times. We are here to help each other, best way to do that is to get the facts straight when you give people advice. And saying a BTL needs more power to be any louder than any othe FI sub, is, well.... misinformation... then why dont you run 500 watts to your xxx's? why are you running 5k to them? I don't want to take the words out of 95's mouth or try to represent him, but I believe the point he's getting at is that you don't NEED 5000 watts. At 500 watts the BTL should still be the loudest of the FI bunch because of its higher efficiency. However you can obviously get even louder with the BTL due to its higher power handling than the rest. Which is also why he has 5k on his XXX's. He doesn't NEED it, he WANTS it to get even louder.

I saw all this coming from the first post because I understood where 95Honda was going. Bigjon, I don't think you're realizing just which point he was saying hondaccord and hayes made. I believe he's going in the direction about him making the point of misinformation being spread. Not that the BTL wouldn't be louder with 500 watts. I suppose some people could make the point that they think subs sound better or whatever when being pushed near capacity than when they're only receiving fractional power. Which could be a matter of opinion, though most parameter graphs would dispute that. and yeah I know about not receiving actual RMS power 99.9% of the time with music, I'm just saying....... I know my SI D2 sounded good off of only 200 watts . Maybe even better than with 1000. I think some of it had to do with the amps, though. One being a big class D and the other a smaller AB. *sigh* yeah I'm one of those who thinks there may be an audible difference between D and AB