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bassl0va

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    You could send it to an installer maybe, they mostly do headunits everyday, so most places will do a good job.

    I learnt how to hook one up just the other day, it's easy if you have someone to show you what to do in person.

    We thought about having bestbuy install it but we wanted to save the $50 and have learning experience lol

    Yeah, fair enough. When I did it I got the loom that plugged into the new headunit, and the loom that plugged into the car, then cut and put some crimp bullet connectors on for it to be all plugged up later on.

    It felt pretty good when I got them all done correctly first time :)

  2. Sadly, the reality is that allthough sound, particularly quality of sound is truly subjective, it is in fact going to be based on what the best thing you have heard is. So if you have only heard Skull Candy ear buds on an iPod, or your buddies BTL, you have nothing to compare to. This is where a nice brick and mortor shop is nice to have around to audition high end sound. Even better is to get into some high end home audio where good music can be demonstrated properly. Best of all, go to a live concert, not a rock concert, but something small and live.

    Sorry, End Rant.

    x1,000,000,000,000,0001,000,000,000,000

    Retired dudes with a house, 2 garages and a rented storage room filled with vintage audio gear is also a good source of high end demos. Or his friends shop that sells similar stuff. Those 2 and my mothers cousin and his super expensive headphone gear are the most amazing this to listen to music on. You just can't describe how awesome it sounds. It's like another world.

  3. 30Hz? my midbass play to 30Hz...a real SQ sub will play down to 10Hz

    Thats cool, But, I don't have an SQ setup... I do 158.5@30hz, and 160.2@47-53hz... I haven't been in the scene for a while (SQ), but when I was, my buddy won world finals in 95, and was the first person ever to score a perfect 40 in the RTA, which sounded like complete shit musically... 10hz? why would you want to play that low? the human ear can only pick up 20-20khz, I thought... The OP was just asking what people meant, so I gave him my opinion on what they meant...

    30Hz? my midbass play to 30Hz...a real SQ sub will play down to 10Hz

    Yes, flat from 30-65 is somewhat poor. But lets be fair, I don't think that he built it for awesome flat response and accuracy at 125db or so. Also a car is a shit place to bother with SQ, that's what a listening room is for ;)

    I didn't realize that was that bad... No, I didn't build it to be an SQ machine for sure... Lol... Agreed on the no place for SQ in a car... Lol...

    Well for a car that goes that loud it's probably pretty damn good, and you could also EQ it so that it is flat from 15hz up but only does whatever you meter at 15hz. But where is the fun in that? haha

    10hz material is found in pipe organ music and similar stuff, harmonics or whatever of string instruments and stuff. And of course in movies, but you don't really worry about that in a car, lol. Which is why comparing what you get from your car to something you can get from a IB or tapped horn in a properly built HT room is kinda stupid ;)

  4. How does someone define how a sub sounds musically. Bass is Bass to me and when some says does it sound good on music I'm confused. If you build the proper enclosure then should it not sound good. For instance my 15 is in a 5cbft box and gets low and sounds good to me. But if I put it in a smaller box or bigger box won't it sound like shit and that wouldn't be the subs fault. If I'm incorrect please correct and explain.

    Lets go to an extreme end of the scale and say you play music in an Alan Dante's Volvo, imagine what it will sound like (obviously this isn't with it right up, and ignore the fact that there aren't mids/highs). It will be extremely peaky and sound like ass in general, but it's kinda a subjective scale. I'd say a proper musical subwoofer will play extremely flat, low, be very accurate etc. Also if you are really picky you wouldn't allow it to be super loud either.

  5. well panels as oposed to wall..and my roof liner..lol

    dont want a thread of WHAT CREAKS IN YOUR CAR

    altho i still need come nz and hear this bitch

    lol, sweet.

    yeah, you need yourself a demo :)

    Lol woodzyspl, your just trying to boost up your post counter arn't you drinks.gif

    Says the guy who is posting a off topic comment and has an even smaller post number ;)

    why would i do that

    why would anybody bother lol

    LOOK AT MY POST COUNT FUUCKK YEAAHH

    234? Is that even a number :peepwall:

    Just kidding mate :drinks:

  6. hmm just a random idea, you should try cramming some extra pieces of wood down the sides to help reinforce it from wobbling and creeking when going around corners.

    Yeah, still haven't finished the build so I guess we'll see.

    Expanding foam the crevices :)

    Yep, was going to do that between the roof and box. It is almost hard up against the doors so they kinda hold it too :)

    i have similar problems

    when music soft..all my rear pannels creak and it anoys me..

    sorry not on topic :peepwall:

    Sounds pretty on topic to me :shrug:

  7. I've rewound a coil by hand. It is the coil I'm using on my extreme 5.25", it uses a alpine type E motor and a rewound coil, as the old one was fried.

    I don't see why people are telling him not to do it? Let him try it by hand, he will soon find out how hard it is to do. But it doesn't mean it can't work, I used wire recycled from a old transformer (so it had little bends in it) which I straightened out as best as I could, then hand wound it on the former, while gluing with quick drying epoxy. It probably took me 1 and a half hours to do a 4 layer coil. It was then unwound down to a 2 layer coil to fit in the gap better.

    It's not that hard to make a machine to wind them either. Look at that video, it's just a special lathe, but minus the cutting equipment mounts. Just get metal pipes with the correct diameter to make a certain sized coil, build a new speed controller to drive the motor at a lower speed, and then the wire spool holder, and winding device. You just set it up and brush on epoxy as it winds it.

    At the dude who said something about building your own amp, so what? Why not? Maybe don't try and build a 10k amp from scratch, but you can get home audio amplifier kits, I have one for a 200 watt RMS ultra low distortion monoblock (or build 2 for stereo of course) it was easy enough to make.

    Just take it one step at a time, and don't discourage people from trying new things.

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