///M5

Super easy with a floor pump. 6 pumps to go from 50psi to 120psi. I can run up to 150, but 120 is fast enough and softens some of the potholes.

Saddle sore I am, wondering how much worse it will be if I go for a rip this morning. I do have two other saddles to try as well. I LOVE steel frames, in particular when they are built to be lighter than aluminum

I'd bet your wiring is jacked. Pretty much guaranteed you aren't supplying that amp with enough power to do what you are trying to do. Either fix that or turn the gains down. Perhaps way down. Post a complete description of what you have done, haven't, etc. If you can't do that, well then you are a prime candidate to pay someone to do your installs for you.

Hope my ass allows me to go tomorrow. I guessed a little wrong to compensate for the stem I thought was a bit long for me. Amusingly that means my stomach, hands, arms, and legs are equally tired. Coughed up 10 cartons of smokes I think too. Looking forward to getting beyond the pathetic out of shape mode.

Not reading, catch up later. Just had to post pics so no one bitched. 20 miles kicked my ass today.

RC Cars In Slow Motion: Why Can’t Real Cars Look This Epic? - Car Stunts - Jalopnik sweet

Going for a rip on the Lemond this morning

Actually the first sentence is wrong, it needs no box although it could refer to one in a box as well. So that makes the second wrong too, a low frequency driver or one that plays below a woofer is definitely a sub. In the US, if you had a box with 5 subwoofer cones in it and it was one box you could still call it a subwoofer. So I do think indeed the Matterhorn is a subwoofer, it just isn't a single driver.

You said that nicer than I did, but IMO skill and effort aren't worth shit unless you apply to something worthwhile. The truck to begin with was a major fail, yes I know I have one, and the modifications are absurd and a huge waste of money.

MLV is a sound barrier. CLD only stops your panels from vibration, Ensolite only stops two rubbing surfaces from making noise (or decoupling another layer of something, usually MLV). So if self generated panel noise is your concern CLD is the answer. If you want to make your car quieter then MLV is the answer (or any heavy layer, lead works sweet but is cost prohibitive) If you have two surfaces rubbing then a CCF or Ensolite product will be the answer. So far you've dealt with vibration, if you want to deal with noise you need a layer of mass

They cater to the least common denominator...and they do this in more ways than just recommending that you break in their subs. IMO there are tons of better options for the same price. Not knocking what you have in particular if you bought it used for a good price, but I'd still have chosen something better for your needs. Rarely does one of their drivers fit those for nearly anyone.

Have to drive 100mi to pick it up though.

Sweet, dude took my offer. Luckily I have cash from the motorcycle sale

Found a sweet Lemond with an Ultegra component group and a Reynolds 853 steel frame in my size. I just hope the dude selling it gets back to me as I think it would be a great bike for me to ride for a year to see if I get serious enough about it to think custom. Or if not, just something to ride. Tore up 10mi on 3 different frames yesterday. And yeah, I know 10 is nothing but considering its been years since I plopped on a bike it winded me up pretty good. That and peddling without clipless BLOWS.

1kHz could be a bad tone to choose if it is after your crossover. Using a DMM to set your front stage gain is also a bad idea.

Search here first, explain what you looked for and why you couldn't find it. PM me and then I'll open your topic, otherwise you've been here long enough to know that you need to try harder than this.

hey m5 here is his reply to your question! i also told him to sign up to the ssa forums and say hi and comment on this post rather then going though me, unless he wnats to go though me and get delay reponse times lol!! "My Equalizer is not intended to really operate as a crossover, more of a steady rolloff for the lower frequencies. The LP on the amp is set at about roughly 85 HZ with an 18db rolloff. The gains on the amp are around set at 7 out of 12. The Headunit never gets turned up past 75-80% because I know it can be the "lease trusted" peice of the puzzle for distortion/clipping." I am not interested in a subjective description of his eq, but what his settings are at. "steady rolloff" isn't helpful at all, nor possible with an eq anyways. "Roughly 85Hz" is also not much of a setting...unless by roughly it is explained how that number was come up with. On top of that I surely hope you mean HP and not LP otherwise it is real obvious what happened. Gains 7 out of 12 could be WAY into clipping or nowhere near, depends on how he is feeding the signal into the amps. My guess is he clipped the piss out of them. 75-80% "least trusted" wasn't a safe move. Either you have to listen for distortion or measure it on an o-scope, nothing else will tell you anything. There are only two real possibilities here. Thermally cooking the drivers or mechanically. I am trying to understand his HP filter. If he truly used a LP instead then it was most definitely mechanical as having a midbass play from 85Hz and down doesn't make any sense. If he used a HP and it failed if it was truly set at a decent level then he thermally smoked those drivers which most likely means they were clipped to all living hell. To really know and help we really need the REAL settings not something he is going from memory on. **unless of course the LP wasn't a typo**

Sexy compared to that green blob of a POS chevy above though.

Yeah, and you can pick up those cammers for cheap right now

R3 bought that one. Sorry.

I think you could raise your tuning a bunch as well.

27hz is pretty low and 3" is pretty small. Could be fine in the trunk though, depends on your listening preferences and goals which you didn't share

It should have "warned" him as it went as well. They usually get nasty when being overworked.

Could that be more confusing to read? What is the LP set at and what slope. If he is using 2 (one on the amp also) include both. How did he set his gains? Why does he think the h/u is clipping?

Not sure, what is it worth? I want to make sure I didn't promise it to anyone before I comment.