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:orly: autopilot is useful?? I have never had the pleasure and of course in a pompous way scoffed when I heard about it. it sounds like I was a bit eager to protect my wallet,

Ah, from your previous post I thought maybe you had done something different and was curious what it was. It looks good as is, really low trucks aren't really trucks anymore.

Met my neighbor (he has lived there for 1.5 years, but never seen him spoke to his wife before) and found out he is the rep that sells Best Buy their Monster Cable. Our conversation got broken really short, but it made me smile. He was at CES working in the Monster Booth.

Hey Kent, good to see you perusing the board. How are things?

Pi*r*r*L is the volume calc for a cylinder. (area of a circle times height) Sonotubes are probably the easiest thing to find.

Ah, sucks that the receiver isn't flexible enough. I play the upright bass and am probably a bit more trained into localizing low frequencies than the average listener. I must say I love the ratio of speaker to tv!

Depends on the application a bit. Personally I like a single 12, but high level listening isn't something I do.

No troubles. Glad we could help. If you get some "real" mains at home, you might start to like your subs crossed lower there. The reason for the THX recommendation is that they assume that your mains are something like the chitty bose cubes and can't make any rumble down low. Generically speaking it is always better to play your run your subs as low in frequency as the rest of your system can support (assuming that you want a nice FR and aren't just looking for peak volume at any frequency). There is one other thing that 3 way is outstanding for and that is having a near point source for most of the frequencies in the listening range. Until you have heard a full range single speaker setup play the piano, or female vocals, or other natural music it is hard to understand how much more real it can sound to have a single source playing the really localizable audible range. If you are really into staging it can be amazing while keeping your FR clean. A pet peeve that I have with some peoples tunings in their cars si that they only worry about the stage at the expense of keeping the music natural. Either way enjoy what you have and if you get the urge post away!

I can't help with the steering control portion, never cared to keep it but someone might be able to hop in. To really help it would be good to know speaker locations as well as what sizes you are limited to for both the tweeter and mid. Preference in type of tweeter (metal or textile) as well.

I prefer to use a parametric to solve the frequency response issues that are intrinsic to the install, but the graphic to tune down the overexcited parts of the drivers.

You could but I would usually just recommend going IB if they are a MB or playing midbass as usually the enclosure has to be a bit large and it is not so easy to put it in a car. Aperiodic is another option.

Not fair for you to post pics of something that cute. I can't have one....yet.

Glad to see you have something from my home town, well originally anyway. MinnKota >> others when it comes to weeds

Yeah I was looking at the rear and thinking it would look nice shaved, but that's alot of money and it'll do for now. I'm still trying to figure out the stance. Because the wheels have such a low offset, they won't tuck and I don't want to go too far and be rubbing... -John Looks great, what are you using that is adjustable?

They look more like real control arms than I imagined they would. (not your work GM's)

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BP? what's happenin' cap'n?

Just get a cigar trimmer and roll it around slowly until it fits in, either that or be smart and just buy a size wire that makes sense as 8 is stupid overkill and this of course is coming from the king of overkill.

If you are off by too much not only will it change the output but you will hear it huff air. I really, really despise the sound of port chuffing.

Then pay someone to do it. Buying premade wires isn't going to help you a whole lot. Another option (i.e. what I did on my truck) is that you can run a piece of string from connection point to connection point. Run it a bit loose since it won't be 1/0 string and then go to your local welding supply store and have them make you 1/0 with connectors on the end for the exact length of wire that you need. I am concerned that if you are trying to get rid of the "me factor" in doing the simplest part of an install that perhaps you should be paying someone to do the whole thing.

You can't control your stock changer with a headunit, it won't do it. Does your $1500 budget include everything (wiring, deadening, wood for box, drivers amps etc.)??

I might still go on the lake, but instead of bass it will be for bottle bass. Equally as good, but my stomach still needs a bit of time from yesterdays "catch".

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Nope, not even close. You need 1/0 minimum, but I might go bigger. Your power wires to your amps distro block better be as well otherwise you really shouldn't even come close to trying to run your amps.

I agree, one 4" would be way too small. A single 6 has more area than 2 4's, not by much but it would definitely be a better solution.