CBFryman

As far as I know soundstream is good stuff. However I have not used any soundstream amps. Hifonics makes great budget amps....and then overpriced competition quality amps. If you want SQ and a lot of power look into our very own sundown. I have their SAZ-1500D and IMO it is superior to the USamps MD2D in every way. It is one of the highest quality amps I've used.

Not a bad score at all comming out of a trunk! And yes, these amps are beasts.

I geuss I kinda contradicted myself up there. No I think the strand counts are really close after looking back at it today. Just caught that.

x2 I've never had a bad experence with weldingsupply.com. However, as long as that guy is selling wire on eBay and I need a large ammount that is where I will go. Even after he rose his price it is still almost $1 cheaper than weldingsupply.com after they add shipping.

I dont really have a favorite. If I had to choose I would say FloridaSPL.com. No cliques, no drama, no BS...just a bunch of Fla/Ga guys/gals talking about SPL and what not.

No, the two are deffanitely different. Weldingsupply.com is only one case, this has two casses (a plastic inner and neoprene/rubber like outer) and the eBay stuff is by large more flexable. The strand count looks to be about the same, individual strands are the same size by eye so it is deffanitely the caseing that is making the flexability difference. I have eBay left over and I got weldingsupply.com for my friend and I paid more for the weldingsupply.com wire. However weldingsupply.com is by the foot and I only needed 15 feet where as I have plans to use the full 50ft in my truck. I like the eBay stuff a lot more. I will get comparison pics up after I get off of work. The Towncar is here so I'm installing the head unit and running wire today. Hooray, my favorite part of installation...not.

That's a pretty decent price IMO. A cracked dust cap is strictly cosmetic minus a little bit of leaking you might get between the front and back sides of the cone. A 12" XXX will be perfect for the Mini IMO.

somewhere in the low $200 range high $100 rangeish is what I'd pay if I was looking for one. If you are looking to sell I'd reccomend you post it for $240 and if you dont get hits change it to OBO.

I got the same suff VJ did. It's more flexable than Weldingsupply.com wire and has a higher stand count. It's almost as flexable as hyperflex...though hyperflex is a deffanite winner and is thicker (kicker is almost 2/0 IIRC). It's good stuff, better than a lot of ''car audio'' wire IMO.

Hifonics, though great amps for the money, are not the best for SQ. If you are not planning on pushing the amp to its full power potential distortion will stay tame. However I will reccomend you look elsewhere.

Anything you do to fix is probably wont be very pretty. I'd reccomend getting some epoxy and filling the crack.

Lets just say, here in the US, when girls have a really dark tan, they generally have sandy blonde hair, which is hot, not platinum blonde hair, which only guys have...if you know what I mean. The one in the pink/tearing cloths is hot though.

Some of thoes girls look like... Never mine. Nice pics.

You know you want to get kinky with them. Note my favorite pants as well.

Going to get some practice in sometime this week. Built the girl a new box just so I could practice carpeting. People keep asking me if I can build a carpeted box for them and I dont feel comfertable selling htem my not so good carpeting jobs. Practice makes perfect. I'll post results if they arent too bad.

and by want I mean want to earn it using my SI products.

I want that sticker...just hte 150+ one though.

I highly doubt the 500/1's class D circutry is capeable of producing anything over 500Hz with any sort of decently low THD or dampening factor.

The guy I work with has one, just an SE though. He has put 100,000 miles on it (2nd owner) and only had to replace the alternator and fix the AC once. It is still running strong at 160k. Good buy mang.

Will it answear the phone for you? That would be the only reason I would want it. OEM bluetooth like quality. Of course I dont have a BlueTooth enabled phone so it doesnt make a lick of difference.

External EQ/Xovers FTW?

VGA simply means it uses a VGA cable. (12-15 pin depending on what is needed). That means it uses the same connections as what your computer monitor uses. Really the only way to have a touch screen only using one cable. 10" should be fine if you use a program with a big 'button' As far as sound cards go, you dont have to get the absolute best, but I would reccomend a higher end one. I'm sure there are soundcards that have RCA outputs also, which is really all you need. You mostly want a card with good output quality, input is something you dont really care about because you will have USB/FireWire for other assesories. Where do you planning on mounting your monitor? Glassing it into the dash or perhaps the center concil.

LS7 solstice is like an LS1 RX-7 on roids...OMFG FAST!!!

It seems as if they are setting up for it to be more marketed towards the HT crowd to have an in wall subwoofer where enclosure volume isnt a big deal...just mounting depth.

Because you are running an independant voltage system for oyur amps a carputer could work out great for you. Just a heads up, large touch screen if you plan on burping with the carputer. People say it is rather hard to hit a pause button on a touch screen with loud burps. If you need any help or have any questions let me know.