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  1. You're in Wisconsin and there is not much demand for doing car alarms, its good to know but you don't need to be an expert on them. Remote Starters is where its at in the Great North. Learn how to toss a few of those in and put in your time for a winter and then stay on in the summer to learn the fun parts of the trade. Also brush up on your Electronics basics and learn from every source that you can. Hell even the Crutchfield Guide to Car Audio has a wealth of information for an aspiring installer. Get in a good shop and learn from the head tech and have fun with it.
  2. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but how often do you see a sad person on Jet Ski?
  3. The boss says we are having a great turn out for entries. I can't wait to see the videos start flooding in. If you know a soldier please tell them about this contest! Thanks-The Junction
  4. The Junction Inc. in Watertown, NY is having TWO separate contests. The first contest is a makeover on one lucky Soldier's vehicle. Car, truck, motorcycle, boat....It doesn't matter we will get it decked out! The SECOND contest is a home furniture makeover for one spouse of a soldier! All you have to do is send in a Video why you deserve to win and tell your friends to vote for you! This contest is for ACTIVE duty soldiers only, so if you have any friends for family in the Military be sure to tell them about this contest! Here's the link- The Junction INC.
  5. Termpro.com will give you a list and so will MecaCaraudio.com. Also check out Soundmekanix.com, they are the DB judges for the midwest and based out of sheyboygen i believe.
  6. That Terminator package is a hell of a deal for an entry level system. I've tossed a few into some hatchbacks and have had great results. For the money that has got to be one of the best entry level systems in car audio. Now that i've talked about the pros now you need to know the cons. Its an entry level system thats designed to work with everything that comes in the box, with a 1000w amp on those subs you won't even get the amp tuned in before your subs are tore to pieces, and your not looking much better with a 500w amp either. The best way to upgrade that system down the road would be to upgrade to a more efficient box, vented or a well designed bandbass would give you way more output than the sealed box in the package. Then when your ready to make a real upgrade do subs and an amp at the same time. Those subs won't be able to take a much bigger amp and that amp won't power any bigger subs with good results. Since you will be running that system in a small Suv it should sound great. I'd just rock it for a year and sell it to a friend or on Craigslist. Just leave it hooked up in your truck for people to listen to and if you do it right you should be able to get all your money back out of them. Good Luck!
  7. Not the one I was looking for Kranny but thanks for the input. The one I'm thinking about had all 3 subs running free air and a voltmeter hooked up to the speaker leads, and it was an MTX promo so the 9500 had to win. Here's some W7
  8. MTX had a Demo DVD out doing reliability testing on the 9500 compared to a W7 and an L7. All 3 subs were taking over 100V AC free air. If someone could post that then you can see a realistic demo of a W7 on a wall socket.
  9. There's 2 rings that hold the surround in place. The first one is steel and is placed on the surround over the mounting holes, and the second one is aluminum and gets pressure fit around the outside of the basket and it clamps the other steel ring down to the basket assembly. JL has a Tutorial on their website for a more detailed explanation.
  10. Simple reason it looked so devastating-they didn't put all the pieces back on it before they hooked it up.
  11. gotta check out the while your at it
  12. Looking good Thor. What did you use to secure your battery in place? I was in Pulaski today and didn't have anything going on, if it weren't for the rain and temps just a few degrees above freezing i probably would have made the trip down for another demo. Keep up the good work!
  13. The only gain you would get from running multiple channels would be the ability to do time delay on each sub. For example if you had a big vehicle with 2 sub boxes, one in the front and one in the rear, then you could make use of having electronic time delay. (BTW this is a bad idea to start with). Also if you were going to be running 2 different size of subs and wanted to use the smaller set as midbass drivers, then you could use the extra channels and run them with a bandpass signal (this will only work well if you have HUGE subs for your bottom end, vehicles that come to mind are the MTX Jackhammer escalade with a pair of 22" subs and running 4-12's for midbass or Steve's Tahoe with 4-18" subs and a pair of 8" rockford subs being ran as midbass drivers up front). If neither of these scenarios apply to you then just get a big monoblock that is one ohm stable, it will be easier to hook up and a lot easier to tune.
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