///M5

Is your penis that small? Some reason you feel the need to be a social ass and screw with other peoples things? On top of that subs and voices have nothing to do with each other.

I love the JL w6, but it is not at all the right type of sub for you. First things first you need to address how much space you have for a box and what alignment you are going to build.

I wouldn't buy an AQ or Hifonics, neither will last you. I do find the 'last you 5 years' comment funny. If you buy a real amp it will last you a hell of a lot longer than that. I still have amps I purchased 18 years ago and they work great, but they weren't crap like the AQ/Hifo stuff when I bought them.

three?

By asking for a pure SQ sub, you are asking for something that isn't louder than your midbasses so to answer we need to know what you are running up front. You should also perhaps rethink the getting loud on occasion as it will require you to compromise on the SQ portion which maybe is what you are asking for. SQL is a stupid term which is why the forum changes it to LSQ. If your primary goal is loud SQ (ie with a tremendous front stage) LSQ makes sense.

Important things, like the hop.

What do you mean by LSQ? I know the definition, but that doesn't mean that is what you are looking for.

Run IB in your kicks. You just need to vent them someplace, usually into the fender or under the hood

http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/zencart...p;products_id=8 http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/zencart...p;products_id=6

topThief

You can run IB in your kicks

Nope, I am short a pre-amp atm, but of course as I am typing realized that my Pio Elite has pre-amp outs that is in the living room. Perhaps I can "gain match" the Pio with my Crown amp and give them a shout.

Realistically I'd like to do it in about two months. I don't have the TV/monitor or the stereo in yet and those things need to come first.

If you want it can be done. What's the budget? Undetermined, in things like a pc I feel that riding the wave of just barely not new anymore is the spot where being cost conscious and still getting the most bang for the buck long term works out the best. In my case the biggest expense will probably be the case, although I'd like the video card to be able to process 1080p for both the internet as well as if I use it to play movies. I think first I need to pick out the case, and cosmetics will play a role there but the focus is to be silent and hopefully fit in the spot on my a/v table where a receiver would normally go.

ToP

gotta do it

My "super plan" needs a cheap pc for the living room that is ultra quiet though.

Personally I'd prefer a higher quality pre-amplifier than the one that comes with the HTD stuff but for the sake of convenience I am willing to give that up. If I really hate it, I am running enough RG6 to locations that I can just put a pre-amp locally for critical listening. Of course if I really want to critically do anything it will be in the upcoming home theater room, although planning/paying for that has to come much, much later.

I plan to network the machine so anywhere there is a laptop you can control it. On the same note, I had thought about adding a touch screen in the bedroom upstairs, but on sort of a dummy machine again reaching down to the one in the basement. I have seen windows burp different shit through cards. Mostly using acoustic recording software and it could be a driver flaw or else, but the one thing that all serious measurement equipment does is get the nasty windows volume control out of the loop. The better acoustic software locks it into outputting only one level.

My plan was to pull an extra Cat6 as well as 5 RG6 leads to every spot with a TV. I figure that gives me digital and analog video/sound.

I don't plan on streaming video from downstairs. Hell I don't really even watch TV and I don't watch movies so that sort of eliminates the need for that. I will be putting our cable box in the basement though and running a repeater to every room in the house so that one switch changes the channels for all of the TV's. HTD is supposedly coming out with a video switcher that will do 1080p over a CAT5 as well. When available that may make it's way into the basement so that I can do multiple sources, but at the moment I have some boxes that R2 brought me to do the video switching. I am concerned over sending video across 3 RG6 (rca terminated) component cables throughout the house and video quality as some runs will be in the 100' range, but have been told it should be fine. If anyone feels differently, I'd love to hear it.

You drive to cheeseland to buy beer? Or do you know something that I don't about where to buy Viking?

I'll be drinking them fresh from the taps in Germany in less than 48 hours.

I have a fundamental concern of using a soundcard/windows to control the volume. Going to WOT because of a pc glitch and blowing every driver in the house would frustrate me to no end. My thought was to put the PC in the basement and use a home automation network to transmit the music to different rooms. This system for instance: http://www.htd.com/whole-house-audio/midle...34Pa38Ta38LbN50 Allows for off-board amps, which I need since the Maggies of course won't be happy with 50w. Has the capability of controlling the volume in every room via a computer, and is actually rather cheap. The advanced system will also control the security system and allow you to connect an Ipod in any room for local input. Of course the room with the TV this won't be an Ipod, but the input flexibility and locality is nice. It is also a piece of hardware then and not software. The media pc in the living room will really be an internet surfing device as well as a blueray/dvd player. I don't really need it to be anything else. The basement pc/music server is in the basement, but the monitor and keyboard are in the kitchen.

I was confused, you already have a server for all of the media? This will just be a satalite to take the spot of DVD and CD and grab media from the big server? Thats is a sweet looking box though. My old pc is plenty fast for streaming music. My plan was to keep it in the basement next to the stereo gear and just use other pc's to remotely change what it is playing.