[Cerwin vega or orion]

But of course electrical comes into play like kickin said.

[Cerwin vega or orion]

I'm powering my DC Level 4 with a Planet Audio BB2400.1. It cost me 300 dollars and sounds pretty good. It puts out way more than rated power too. Get the 2 ohm dvc and you can wire it up to 4 ohms. There are smaller models of the amp, but it will work great when you go to upgrade your subs. And it sounds awesome on the lows, it controls the sub really well.

[Congrats thor]

Congrats bro! Awesome job!

[Can I run my Amp at 2ohm on a 4ohm SUB?]

Yeah dude. Don't go lower than 2 ohms. Besides, you'll start raising the THD so sound quality will be less for no reason

[Can I run my Amp at 2ohm on a 4ohm SUB?]

Casemods - Yeah you can. You just can't run a sub with a lower impedence than the amp can handle. So you can't run a sub at 1 ohm into a 2 ohm stable amp.

[too much power?]

It should be fine. If you can, get an oscilloscope to tune the amp. If you smell something burning, and it doesn't smell pleasant, its your sub burning.

[Reocne]

There is more control and less distortion at a higher impedence. If you are louder at a lower frequency, its probably because of the stiff spider. Also if you have tuned your amp lower, that could cause it. I say you should press your hand firmly on the sub. See how far it moves in and play a song that hits low. Start off with the gain low, and slowly increase the gain and lower the subsonic filter. You want it to move a little past where you pushed it with your hand. Then raise the gain and lower the subsonic filter throughout the day. In a matter of a couple days, you'll be good to go

[speaker damage or ok?]

And for the amp, check out a crescendo if your budget minded. Or you could always get a head unit that has a high pass filter

[Speakers blown possibly?]

Try metering your speakers first. Always start easy. Set the meter to the ohm selection. If the reading fluctuates quite a bit, as in by a few ohms, your voice coils are dead. Now its going to fluctuate for a few seconds at first. But if it stays steady, the head unit has to come out

[Speakers blown possibly?]

Try metering your speakers first. Always start easy. Set the meter to the ohm selection. If the reading flutuates

[Speakers blown possibly?]

And chances are if your speakers were messed up, it wouldn't have happened at the same time. Do you have a multimeter?

[Speakers blown possibly?]

I agree. It sounds like a bad head unit ground. Try taking some wire (of equal or greater thickness) from the black wire on your head unit wiring harness, and screwing it down to the bare metal on your dash, if the sound clears up, it was a bad ground. Just a start

[Cold temps and amplifiers]

And remember. Cold subs hate lows even more. Lol

[Cold temps and amplifiers]

The only problem with the cold is cracked dust caps, but as AMI said, heat is the real enemy. I have had head units that mess up in cold temperatures, not sure why, but usually all I needed to do was take the faceplate off and put it back on, problem solved

[Cold temps and amplifiers]

Blasting cold speakers can be bad especially if they are plastic. I have had head units that mess up while its cold. It could be that

[SA-8 port size and box size?]

You will fry that voice coil...

[Chodes DC Neo videos]

Don't tempt me to buy the neos dude. I'm broke! Lol

[The 8" sub]

my girl has on one her car...it slams...her highest score was a 134.5 and she won her first show and trophy with it

yes..that thing is a BEAST!!!

Now show your boobs. Lmao!

[Chodes Durangho...GOT NEOS?]

Dude that is sick. I must say that I am jealous. Lol. Can't wait to hear them thump on the 5th!

[Cactus Amps - pros and cons?]

Yeah, I've heard nothing bad about these amps at all. Except from stetsom dealers, but I hear stetsoms like to put out dirty power. I was just trying to compare cactus, sundown and stetsom. From what I have been told, its cactus all day long. Sorry son. Lol

[I scratched my heatsink! Angry]

Dude, I would let vex help you, if he can't , customize it. Make it red and black that would be pimp as shit! Lol

[Cactus Amps - pros and cons?]

How does everyone feel about Cactus amps?

[Super Overkill???]

He's using 4 runs of 4/0 for power, one run of 4/0 for the ground, 4 ga for the remote, and 2/0 for the speaker wire, all to a 200 memphis 4 channel. Lol

[1/0 Power wire]

Check out audiosavings.com. I got 25' of Monster 1/0 for 60 bucks. Its really good wire with a thick jacket. Easy to work with too

[New Sundown 8" Frame in the works]

That thing loooks sick! Will the spider allow for 35mm of throw?