vladd

here to knoxville and back this evening, road head + public nobbin made it far more adventurous

We're glad to have you

since i can't really drink becaue of the cold (alcohol tastes so bad right now) i got my dog drunk, he's beside me passed out

happy new year

agree with m5 100% the box that i just built for my ava....its amazing how much low end it lost. Its tuned to 25hz but ended up being wayyyy too small and i lost a ton of low end. I had more low end with my 35hz tuning (new box ended up less than 2cubes, old was over 3) good plans = good sound

I really need to figure a way to get from where i am, to somewhere else that has lots of good liquor

i'm thinking yours is about 39hz and it would have been 28 following his directions. Exactly as m5 stated before.

OK SOooooo here's where i am, 6:30 am and still kinda sick... trying to design a box, thought i had one but realized the basket on the avas are huge and won't be able to be mounted at a 45 degree angle without something raising it. So does anyone out there know a good way to figure out what my options are for mounting this thing at an angle? obviously how far it is mounted up on the board will matter, i can't use a 45degree angle and a 16.5" face mounting it balanced. How can i actually calculate the distances here? There's so many variables my head is spinning....or thats the codeine in my syrup :-P

i fudged the box, a LOT so i'll be designing a new one..actually already have, sub firing up at a 45 degree angle ported and 3.488 internal volume after all displacements. I'll be making it in a couple of days if i can get the MDF and get dwayne to let me back into the cabinet shop, maybe i can even con the guy that works there into doing it for me, since he's fast as hell (he does it for a living)

my bro-in-lawbrought home some awesome peach shine for x-as, one quart got me, my 240lb brother and my 240lb bro in law drunk and we still had half the jar left. I might be able to get ahold of some more, but it'd be rough, apparently the guy didn't have much and didn't want to let go of it.

since everyone seems to be busy with x-mas i'll reply to my own post :-) I'm getting strep throat so i might not stay in Tenn long enough to make a box, just give plans to the bro in law. here's what i'm thinking. 31 x 16 x 16 and a slot port of 2 x 14.5 x 30.16(deep) .47 cubes taken up by the port. and .1 for the driver leaves me right at 4cubes. Now my question is, when figuring out tuning, do i use gross or net volume? i used gross, going to be difficult to use net since it changes with tuning

not going to happen its 3am and i haven't been laid in over a week, i'm also getting sick so sex is out of the question for another week, i'm going to have a LOT of time on my hands

hello everyone good to know you've left me all alone once again

Ok so I am going to be going to sevierville tomorrow and stopping by the place my brother in law works. He said I was more than welcome to use the equipment they have. --read cabinet shop-- Sooo I figure why not go ahead and make a better box for the one avalanche. I'm looking for 3.5-4 cubes, tuned to 21hz. I would like it to be 30"W X 16-18" H X whatever deep. 16" high is better than 18 cause it'd be easier to fit, but i could do 18 if it really helps that much. I guess i will do slot ports so i can actually get a working box quickly. I will probably be using 3/4" MDF. I'm thinking a port on each side with the woofer in the middle. BTW its a 15" sub and the displacement is like .1 cubes I know some people on here are extremely good with CAD, i'm not. I am going to head out now and measure the car once more, i'll update if any measurements change. i think 30x16x16 would yield the best gross volume

eh if it doesn't work and it ends up scratched, just use a fine grit sandpaper and sand till it has a nice continuous scratch "grain" to it, will almost look machined, which i usually prefer over polished anyway

really? then who was the little girl?

the method i'd suggest would be an orbital polisher and some rubbing compound. Its what i use on my plastic headlights to make them like glass, shouldn't be too harsh for the butt...try it and let me know :-D

i've been awake for 38 hours straight

awesome thanks for the replies, i guess i will dream of 12s for now, and hopefully have them right about when it gets warm enough to enjoy them :-D and Merry Christmas

and lastly i've never heard a single bad thing about the mags.

well its only one ava and its just not as loud as the two atlases. It hits soooo much lower though. I would upgrade to another ava but i hate to buy another used one, the mags i can get new and they aren't that much more expensive (i paid 280 for the ava i think the mags are 350-400 which might be a lot, but worth it to me to avoid getting ripped off) Plus the novelty of running a new type of sub

had two atlas 15s and they had rather large boxes....i had NO trunk anyone at the swva meet can attest to that. Now i'm running one ava 15 in one of the boxes that the atlases had. I want to upgrade to mags cause...i'm tired of the ava. Soooo hopefully within like 6months i'll ahve enough money paid off on the CC to buy two mags

now that i look at it, i'm not sure thats the exact one that i have, but it looks just like it,

DMM from sears... http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?...pid=03482175000 i didn't pay that price, the gf did

stratus has a total mounting height of about 16-17" but i only want to use 14 because of the weird lip on it, hard to explain but doesn't matter. My width is 36 maybe a couple inches more at best. The box can extend back as much as 36" but that won't leave me any trunk space at all. What i'm thinking is a box that's 14h X 36w X 26L which is about 7.58 cubes outside dim. This design only leaves me with about 10" in the rear though, not exactly a trunk :-P. Next i can do the typical sealing the subs off from the cabin, take a dremel and saw off the edges around the lip to the trunk giving me the clearance needed. Then i keep the subs firing forward and my height can go up to...17 at least. 17h X 36w X 20l (7.08 cubes) gives me about 16" in the trunk area...better but still not desireable So at last, i do fiberglass and MDF like i talked about before, i can squeeze out way more than the typical rectangle box cause of the wheel wells. I do two separate enclosures cut right down their symmetrical center and that allows me to remove the enclosures if they're short enough, if not they should be able to slide around till i can get them out through the front. Yes i think that might be a plan....