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  1. Its definitely not a phasing issue. I have a 2015 chevy Silverado ltz and ran all my own speaker wire to avoid any in line crossovers and whatever else they add in the bose system. My system is completely independent and ive tried endless amounts of different configurations. I even placed these in my sisters civic with a sq build and they still sounded terrible.

    Any recommendations on a new set of speakers that aren't overpriced and insanely underwhelming?

    So who wants a b2 3 way and a reference 4 channel amp? 😂😂😂 

  2. Oh boy where do i start...I'm so insanely disappointed. I've wanted a b2 setup for so long and now i had the funds.

    So i spent some serious cash on a B2 Reference 4 channel amp{$1400} and a b2 
    Reference 3 way kit. Tweets, mids and woofer in the kit.

    I WAS SO EXCITED! I hooked everything up while cutting my wrists because i just spent over $2000 on a 4 channel amp and a 3 way kit.

    I dialed everything in, dd1, cc1 i did my proper placement with my tweets and all that jazz. Everything was wired up ready to be fired up. 

    Turn the radio on and well...i was...i was so upset. It sounded terrible. Nothing remotely better than my premium bose system i had in there prior. Disappointed, mad and angry i thought maybe it was my crossovers. So i removed those and went active....still nothing exciting. Maybe its the RCA's who knows!? Replaced those...nothing.

    I brought in my external eq and fine tuned it...still sounded terrible. I replaced the wiring, added more sound deadening and once again. Nothing worth $600 for a 3 way set

    I had a CT sounds kit in my old expeditiin that sounded absolutely amazing for such a dirt cheap price out of the box with no tuning. So i had an idea of ok I'll just do exactly what i did with my old setup and apply it to this one. NOPE! Terrible. 

    On top of all of this, being insanely angry over how excited i got over such an expensive setup my damn 4 channel amp stopped working.

    Months passed and i got my amp fixed so i went to my last resort and got a helix DSP mk2, had a very reputable shop tune it just incase i was missing something and still no luck. My tuning guy told me to throw these out.

    All in all, its a love hate relationship with B2. I'm very angry at the price i payed for all of this.

    I'm not here to bash B2 and i know theres a handful of people who do enjoy this brand but if you are reading this B2 please lower the prices down. If i payed half of what i spent i would've been just fine. This left a bad taste in my mouth.
     

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  3. Oh boy where do i start...I'm so insanely disappointed. I've wanted a b2 setup for so long and now i had the funds.

    So i spent some serious cash on a B2 Reference 4 channel amp{$1400} and a b2 
    Reference 3 way kit. Tweets, mids and woofer in the kit.

    I WAS SO EXCITED! I hooked everything up while cutting my wrists because i just spent over $2000 on a 4 channel amp and a 3 way kit.

    I dialed everything in, dd1, cc1 i did my proper placement with my tweets and all that jazz. Everything was wired up ready to be fired up. 

    Turn the radio on and well...i was...i was so upset. It sounded terrible. Nothing remotely better than my premium bose system i had in there prior. Disappointed, mad and angry i thought maybe it was my crossovers. So i removed those and went active....still nothing exciting. Maybe its the RCA's who knows!? Replaced those...nothing.

    I brought in my external eq and fine tuned it...still sounded terrible. I replaced the wiring, added more sound deadening and once again. Nothing worth $600 for a 3 way set

    I had a CT sounds kit in my old expeditiin that sounded absolutely amazing for such a dirt cheap price out of the box with no tuning. So i had an idea of ok I'll just do exactly what i did with my old setup and apply it to this one. NOPE! Terrible. 

    On top of all of this, being insanely angry over how excited i got over such an expensive setup my damn 4 channel amp stopped working.

    Months passed and i got my amp fixed so i went to my last resort and got a helix DSP mk2, had a very reputable shop tune it just incase i was missing something and still no luck. My tuning guy told me to throw these out.

    All in all, its a love hate relationship with B2. I'm very angry at the price i payed for all of this.

    I'm not here to bash B2 and i know theres a handful of people who do enjoy this brand but if you are reading this B2 please lower the prices down. If i payed half of what i spent i would've been just fine. This left a bad taste in my mouth.
     

    Sincerely, a very disappointed customer...

    😥

  4. 3 hours ago, MrSkippyJ said:

    How much are you wanting to mix in SQ, you are really pretty far from it with that equipment list. If I were you I would start much simpler, maybe a single component set in your front doors and see if that gets you what you need. It is far easier to add if what you have isn't enough rather than putting all of that in there and needing to take it out if it is too much or not what you wanted. You have 2 10s so a good component set should balance that just fine. 

    Yea I like that idea A LOT because once I get all excited I start overwhelming myself because there's just so much to choose from...last thing I want is to spend extra money I didn't need to spend. Shooting for a 50/50 mix nothing crazy but manageable in a daily.

  5. 16 minutes ago, WalledSonic said:

    I dont think you'd need a 4ch tweeter amp with only 4 tweeters. If you went two pair of 4ohm tweets per channel (each pair wired together in parallel, so only 2 channels being used), you could wire the channels down to 2 ohm each. But then you'd have two more channels unused in that config with the 4ch amp. 

    If you need a tweeter amp just get a small 2ch amp. Most tweets are 4ohm or higher, so just wire each set in parallel (left and right). 

    How were you planning to wire all those mids to the 4ch? 

    Was looking them up and they're more efficient supposedly when they're wired at 4/8 ohms depending on which ones you get, I'm going to keep them at 4. I think I'm going to get a few components so I'll have 2-4 small soft tweeters. For the mids I was just planning on stacking(series?) the wiring for each channel. Let's just say for example each one is 50w and I have 4 of them on an amp that puts out 200w per channel. Am I going about this the right way? I'll be checking everything with an ohm calculator before I go buy a handful of speakers to make sure it'll be done right and dmm right before I wire it all up. Aiming for a mix between spl/sq, maybe meso 5.25's for a rear fill and crescendos up front. What would be your suggestion for going about all of this?

  6. 9 minutes ago, ShadeTreeMechanic said:

    The thought of four super tweets makes my ears hurt. I wouldn't want to sit next to them. People do it sure but I would do four soft dome tweets. 

    Just hooked up the 2 that I just got and well ummm....you guys are right, 2 is PLENTY. I'm most definetely not going to fire these guys at me, they're so loud I'm just going to face them on-axis from each one another on my A pillars

  7. I'm upgrading my sound stage and wanted to ask if the power seems right for what my plan is

    4 Crescendo F1 (4ohm) Super tweeters on the SAE-50.4 all wired down to 2 ohms

    2 10" CT speakers, 4 CT Meso 6.5"(2 in kick/2 in the doors) and 2 CT meso 5.25's to be powered off the SAX-200.4?

    if there's any other speakers for suggestions I'm all open ears to them, haven't pulled the credit card trigger yet.

  8. 3 hours ago, Antheny916 said:

    You already got your answers above. But just to clarify, they won't be gone forever. It's just going to take some time. That goes for the VU-Din too. The one and only SMD Product that has ever been discontinued is the SMD DD-1 (HV). Everything else, you can expect to be back sooner or later (VM-1 & VU-Din).

     

    7 hours ago, audiofanaticz said:

    The vu-dins are never made in huge quanities, and only get made every so often. everyone wants one, but when they are made they sit and takes forever for them to sell.

    Its been a while since their last run, but no idea when they may get ran again. I just picked a "used" (but never used one up not too long ago). Still got it sitting in the box. lol

     

     

    Awesome! Thanks both of you, made my day knowing that they aren't. 

  9. 5 hours ago, audiofanaticz said:

    They are trying to locate their tooling that they paid for and own before having it retooled which is several thousands of dollars, but with a company that filed bankruptcy and no one to contact is a needle in a haystack situation.

    Ahhhhh thank you! wasn't entirely sure if that was the main reason, just heard that the company went out of business. Also I know on WCCA site the VU-Din is out of stock and not sure how updated it is but seeing how the OM-1's are flying off the shelves are they still making VU-Dins?

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