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I would imagine, before you go and possibly make a costly mistake, it would be best to cover some bases. First of all, most people really enjoy the sound of their Type R components from what I've read they have sufficient midbass. Are you certain the high pass crossover is set correctly? If that crossover is set too high it will easily cause the midbass to go bye bye. Try turning off the high pass filter and see if it helps. Also you could have one of your midbass's wired out of phase. I'd check some things out first before plunking down money on another set of speakers.

Wow.... I mean WOW... I wish we had haunted houses around here that got that involved and went through that much trouble... They're pretty cheesy around here... I've always wanted to be in something like that. I think it would be an absolute BLAST to dress up and act the part.

Yes, Vincennes. Record Cellar IS NOT involved past the fact that I'm sure a few of the guys who work there attending the show. Which I dunno about you but the less anyone has to deal with Rick and his bullcrap from that place the better.

Holy crap dude. You're on the other side of Detroit. That's a long haul to attend a car show, but we'll be glad to have ya down.

I took the original post by the understanding he didn't have the intention of going active, just crossover capability between the components and the sub.... guess I understood that wrong.

COME ONE, COME ALL!! On Saturday November 6th Vincennes University will be hosting it's annual car show and cruise in at Vincennes, Indiana. ALL vehicles are welcome to attend and enter the car show competition. Low Riders, Jacked up 4x4's, Mini Trucks, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Classics, daily ground pounders, SQ cars, SPL vehicles, etc. They'll have trophies for almost anything that can be judged. I've been in contact with the event coordinator who also said that if we can get a TL or some SPL meter at the event they'd love to have it and would adjust prizes, judging and whatnot accordingly for anyone wanting to compete. I'm tossing the notice up early in hopes of arranging someone from somewhere with a meter. The first show a few years ago had ~30 cars, last years show hosted ~100 and the turnout for this year is expected to be at least that good again. There's quite a few car audio vehicles showing up to this event and I'm sure if a meter was there even more would show up. So, if you're close enough and free please come on over!

or perhaps he didn't heatshrink/tape the wires good enough and something's shorting out?

:FACEPALM: The harness adapters are only a few dollars, why on earth didn't you make sure he bought one. I'm not familiar with that vehicle at all, but chances are it has a factory "amp" hidden somewhere and it's now fried either due to getting 12v run through it or too high of an input signal because of the amp built into the aftermarket HU. That would be my guess. They make harness adapter's that for connecting the HU to the factory wires and in the case of vehicles with factory "amps" a bypass harness for those. Try hooking a speaker directly up to the output of the HU, not through the factory wiring and see if it still plays. If so then there's something in the chain of the factory stuff that's bad, if it doesn't then something happened to the internal amp of the HU.

Preach on brother, preach on. OP, it's all about the installation. I would say, for now, use the crossover's on the Zed since they're there, but once you have everything installed correctly you'll want to change up to something like what M5 suggested and there's other's out there as well. Even on a budget SQ system you should not limit yourself to so few choices and remember there's much more to what's going on to make it "SQ" than the crossover's, speakers, amps, etc. that you choose.

Another first impression I noticed is the sheer impact. With the Hifonics subs and amps it got loud. Plenty loud enough for us in most cases. Like anything else with two 12's and over 1kw of power you could feel the bass, feel your pant leg or shirt move a little, things like that. Mind now that I have around double the power now but still the sheer impact of the Q's is unreal. For example, Tuesday a friend and fellow club member came over to check it out. We played with lots of songs covering many music genre's. The one that stands out in particular is Metallica's One. The kick drum was down right brutal, the impact nearly took our breath away and almost hurt our chest. Yesterday after work I demo'ed it for my little brother and was playing Tesla's Song and Emotion. When the song came alive he nearly jumped out of his seat. He couldn't believe the force he was hit with from the drums. It's amazing to have the drums be that forceful AND articulate at the same time. Most amazing is that I still have to tune the thing. I set the gains quickly and conservatively by ear with no adjustments to the EQ (not much to make it was pretty much flat to start with) and no adjustments to the crossover settings. It's still not being driven alot yet so I'll get them before we get too serious on it. I have to say I'll enjoy giving a full review once everything is dialed in properly.

I agree with him. Sounded like the amp clipping the sub to me as well. I know speakers are "dumb" and they simply do what you tell them to do, but I swear I've noticed over the years that higher quality more sound quality oriented subs seem to make the clipping more noticeable, such as on kick drums where the power peak is sharp, than other subs that kind of mingle the clipping into the rest of the muddled mess they're reproducing. Just my .02 I say throw a sine wave to it period. If there's no noise that sounds like that then the sub is fine and the amp is clipping.

Thanks man, looking forward to meeting you and the rest of the IAK family that weekend.

I've seen plenty of posts where people say they hate the KLMX, although I have used the KLMX several times without issue. I think it would be just fine to use. Make your buddy chip in on the cost of wire and his own connectors and I think that would be a great way to go :EDIT: I think the problem most people have is they cut too deep when they're stripping the ends off the wire which causes lots of the strands to break off. As long as you don't cut into the strands when you strip the wire it won't do that which goes for pure copper as well, it just doesn't break off as easy.

eheheheh.... reminds me of the PA amps in the PA setup at the university gymnasium here. BIG relays doing the same job, but they almost sounded like power transfer switches. Like the ones used for emergency generators, lol.

Believe it or not the entire Alton family should be in attendance for some of this. Wife wants to take the kids to the children's museum Saturday, get a hotel room and do the show and stuff next day. (given I can get a few extra $$$ up before hand) Our plans as of right now is to make it for the cruise Saturday evening and the show Sunday. May be able to make the lil man's B-Day party depending on how everything goes with the museum.

Thanks brother, clean was what I was hoping for. Well, my first impression was amazement at how loud they get for such little excursion, lol. The sound so far is superior to anything I've ever owned. I still have to go all through the tuning but SMOOTH is definitely the first word that comes to mind. Thanks man, and it was an expensive idea too. I used stainless steel all-thread, nuts and washers. It totaled $72 for 3ft of SS all-thread, and a 50 count bag each of SS nuts and flat washers. I didn't go for the lock washers, just too much money. Instead I opted for double-nutting so that nothing gets loose.

Alright, everything is going well here. The hospital has discharged the wife and she's now home. Hopefully not going back ANY time soon, we HATE hospitals. ANYWAY............ Here's the pics as promised guys. Unfortunately battling with insomnia two nights along with concentrating on the work led to the absence of thought on taking pictures during the installation of everything. I'll post what I have though. If you notice, there's a lack of wires for the fuse holder. I removed the bolts that were in it and used all-thread to make the connections on the back side of the board to help clean up the look. There's a few more things to do such as test and tune, a few more fitment issues with the amp rack to resolve and other little odds and ends but it's working out pretty good overall.

Okay guys. A few of you knew, but my wife has been in the hospital since Saturday. Looks like a gall bladder attack, but without a gall bladder? Anyway, been taking care of her and the kids this week and after the last few sleepless nights........................................ THE VAN IS DONE!!!!!! It's amazing what can be accomplished in the wee hours of night when you can't sleep. Everything is installed, but there's still the testing and tuning that needs to be completed yet. I'm on my way to the hospital now so I'll post up the pictures later on when I can.

Oh hell yeah, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! That is one happy looking family, good looking little guy, and one proud new daddy.

They're .1 cuft per driver and if that .5cuft box is a ported enclosure don't forget about the port displacement.

If it is going to put out the same power at either ohm load I'd go for the S4 because with the higher impedance it will be easier on the amp and the electrical running it.

Well there's always this, Click HERE. It's about as big as you can even fit in a speaker terminal. If you're just worried about minimum resistance possible this would be the way to go and the price isn't too shabby either.

IMHO 6ft really isn't that far, though the 14awg is probably still a little small I doubt it would make that much of a difference. If I had to recommend a wire though, Knukonceptz 10awg klear kable would be a good wire to use. 10awg would still be small enough not to be a pain to get in the terminals while being able to carry just about anything you could throw at it. Knukonceptz Klear Kable

Figured I'd give a little update for those interested. Haven't gotten anything else done with the van since the last update. Been working the last few days on some things that have been being neglected since putting so much time into the van. Such as the yard, which was needing mowed something awful. With six acres to mow, it takes some time and if I hadn't gotten it done when I did I would had to have had a local farmer come bail it, lol. Along with some other honey do's I've not had time to get anything more done with the van. However, that's all caught up so I should be able to get the little added wiring jobs done tomorrow and be installing everything Friday, WOOHOOO!!!!