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If you can find some Pioneer Premier amps, look into those. Don't be fooled by the wattage ratings, though. If you can find one online with a birth sheet you'll find that I believe they put out at least twice rated power. But the Alpine PDX amps are pretty cool too.

there's really no reason to use "power wire" as speaker wire. Generally it is more expensive because it's larger, and you have to run two individual runs of wire for the + and - instead of just having them already together like in "speaker wire."

You should be able to build some baffles for the front speakers and fit either 5.25" or 6.25" components. For 800 you can make some pretty incredible DIY setups. Some other dudes should chime in with recommendations on that, as I'm not as familiar with that as they are.

good point, I hadn't thought of that. Damn, looks like I'll be in more debt. ha. I plan on driving my Explorer until the wheels fall off twice (I'll probably fix them the first time). I think as you grow out of your teens and into your 20's your priorities change. As a teenager in high school, owning a car is the coolest thing, because really that's about all you can own since you live at home typically. Then once you get out of college (or work a few years if you don't go to college), you realize cars aren't all that and realize that a house is not only a cooler thing to own but makes more financial sense. I mean I LIVE in my house, but drive my car to the grocery store and work. Seems obvious which one should demand more attention.

I wouldn't build an all-one-manufacturer system. Especially Pioneer. Their speakers are not awesome. I know it sounds cool to have an all-similar system, but that's usually as far as it goes and doesn't extend into real application very well. Alpine and Pioneer do both make good head units and their upper end amps are great, though.

I think it depends on the year of the vehicle on whether it was a manufacturing issue or not. If it's within a year or two old, maybe. But much older than that and you just can't tell I'm afraid. I mean who knows if he hit a bump real hard, or somebody accidently punched the dome light or something, and a wire broke loose and eventually sparked on stuff and started the fire. and also, I think the box not burning might have to do with it being made of like 75% glue in the MDF, and I don't think glue likes to burn, just melt if it gets hot enough.

more stupid people. not really a surprise. People these days have such security issues.

definitely. profile are garbage. or you can usually go on ebay and get some planet audio refurbs for cheap.

mine start next month

But wouldn't it not matter since the positive from the alternator has to get to a battery in the back also, so there would be voltage drop across that wire just the same as if both batteries were in front and the wire was running to the amplifier, would it not? They're usually just put in back because of space.

haha editor!

that's usually what happens. In which case you'd need to find out the cause of it so that you don't do it again after you get the sub reconed.

I've been trying to figure up if renting an apartment until I can or can nearly afford to pay straight cash for a house is a good idea. Just because if you get a 30 year loan on a 200,000 dollar house, it'll end up costing you like 375,000 with interest once it's all said and done. 15 year loans are obviously better, I think it would only work out to be like 300,000 with interest, but obviously your payments are higher. and I hate interest. and making payments on a debt. Interest rates are pretty low right now so that idea may not work, but I bet if our economy picks up and gets the interest rates back to where they were a couple years ago it might make sense. Though when you figure this out you can't just say "I'll save this much every month, add that to my total" because you *should* be putting that money into some kind of investment. If you have 200,000 saved and have something that gives you even 5%, that's 10,000 a year in interest. So it could up your saved amount pretty quickly. Sure you probably wouldn't have a house for 10 years, but you then wouldn't have to pay it off into your 50's.

Don't count on it putting out rated power. Figure 75% of it maybe. So if that's not more power than you currently have, forget it. Also I'm not sure if they have a warranty from that site, but if they don't, forget it again.

haha I like how on his post it says RIckRolled but on the quote it says RickRolled. But I agree with Jim/Rick and M5 on this one. You shouldn't really be able to hear a difference in amps unless one is broken.

Um, it has nothing to do with us mountains in the way of it running off into our country darn pretty mountains too. When I was flying to alaska the clouds were low for the first half and there were just a few peaks peeking through. wow.

I agree. While I also agree that not everybody drives like that (me and you and y doc at least, ha), I get your point. It does happen way too much, and I hate it. Well, I guess I don't really hate it, I just think "oh, there goes another stupid person. I wonder if he or she complains about how much it costs to fill up the tank. I bet so. Maybe someday they'll pull their head out of their butt and realize that driving more conservatively not only cuts down on fuel consumption but accidents as well."

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indeed. I have two "car audio" subs in my HT and I don't know how you'd tell the difference. subs made more for home audio usually have a lower fs I think and are made to fit in larger boxes usually since there is much more room in home than in a car. But given those, you probably couldn't tell the difference between a car sub in it's recommended 1 cube box and a home sub in it's recommended 2 cube box, or whatever.

Ok I think I mean to say 3' by 19.5 I hope thats right on each chamber. The port is going to run the full length and be 3' on the sub side up. I hope thats right. ah. When I just reread it I thought hmm, now that I read it again I think he might mean a 3" wide x height of the enclosure slot port. haha. 60 sq. inches isn't too bad. It will help even more if you kinda round all the corners inside and out of the enclosure with some sandpaper.

I doubt he'll get anything for the subs and amp unless he had specific coverage for the stereo. Otherwise insurance companies normally don't cover anything that's not in a stock location. When I had my car broken into they wouldn't give me anything for my subs and amps but gave me retail - depreciation for my head unit and interior speakers.

I haven't. What application and price range? For a car in the 280-340 price range I suppose. My mom got them for me... Hope there descent. She said the cars rides 10x better, but I hate chitty tires that don't last Federal, Douglas, General AmeriStar, horrible tires They may be horrible, but they have a funny looking mascot guy! http://www.federaltire.com/ Made in Taiwan. and about 3/4 of all the links for information on the site end with a popup saying "It is currently unavailable now!" haha.

sure do.....n't! ha just playing. I've heard their amps aren't great. So the subs probably aren't too different.

I haven't. What application and price range?

the only thing about that is that if you do that, it's an entirely different sub!