After loads of questions i got my ssd 12's today!! Surprisingly enough it only took a week! i looked at the shipping manifest and it said i wouldnt get them till next week! enough of that lets talk shop. I couldnt wait to put these babies in my car. Here's what i got Alpine hu audiocontrol3.1, audiocontrol line driver, usamps 400 bridged @2 ohms 1200w, optima red top in the trunk. Well i started out by turning the gain just under 1/4 on the amp and just over 1/4 on the line driver. stuck in bassy yet musical cd Basskraft-tribute to krafwerk and proceeded. The box i have these in is less than spectacular(it will be replaced) and i really took it easy at first 'cause i expected this box to sound crappy. even in the prefab box the response was very smooth from mid bass to low bass, then it happened! there was a part of the song that really drops and when it did i thought i mistakenly hit the volume and turned it up cause my trunk started to rattle and my steering wheel shook. i started to beat them a little harder after, that not too hard though. but ive managed to vibrate the steering wheel so bad that it started to hurt(it is solid woodgrain). i ran through a bunch of songs all with very different varying bass tones and these babies love lows. I then threw in tool and played hooker with a penis and the thundering drums at the end felt like someone hitting me in the head! Keep in mind this review is in a crappy prefab and i never turned the sub level much past 1/4 so there is more to come! well enough talk heres pics. i will load vids of different songs hopefully by tommorow! So far i have a new love

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Edited February 9, 200817 yr by benz280se

forgot to say thanks scott and nick and the rest of you guys for answering some of my bonehead questions!

nice OG benz. it was a pain feeding the wires huh?

thanks for the compliment. running the wires was a pain, the benz designers didnt make panels to come off easy back then. and they decided the trunk was a good place for the gas tank. i had to run all the wiring past it YIKES. if it were under the car that would push my box back almost a foot and a half! and i wouldnt hear gas sloshing when my music is down(almost never) lol

Edited February 9, 200817 yr by benz280se