okcchad

Probably the most questionable thing I ever did was I bought some 6x9's out of JC Whiney with 100 oz magnets. Monster of a speaker for like 91, I think was. Anyway, I didn't know anything about speaker boxes then so I just slapped a wooden top on a glass fish tank and siliconed it down. Sounded pretty good for what I knew at the time. It was a year or so later I built a proper box to house 2 kicker 8's, and then continued to build things at least somewhat proper as I got older.

I feel like I'm watching something that should be on a charity fund raiser marathon. Please folks, this '72 Chevelle really needs your help. Donate anything you can. Just look at that cardboard folks! Great work Steve!

Yeah, it's been in place for a few months now. Hasn't changed much, although as I got more used to it the sound levels seemed to taper off. I've been playing with all the different settings the whole time. Any change I make to get more output (increase gain, increase bass EQ on amp, up volume on HU, etc.) just gets me distortion. I've done pretty much everything except bust out a voltmeter and get crackin with some measurements. Which is why I made this thread. I tried searching but all I could really find was some wiring diagrams and some methods for measuring amplifier output. I guess one other possibility is that the amp may have just been bad from the start. First amp I've ever had go bad and I was way kinder to this amp than the ones I had in the 90s. As for the box, its in a sealed box mostly because that's what I had some experience with. Sure ported would get me more output, but I just don't see that being the difference between my expectations based upon past equipment and what I'm getting from this setup. On this topic, another comparison to throw out there. My friend has 1 10' sub running on a 300W amp (forget the brands), I'm pretty sure his is noticeably louder than my 12" running on the supposed 900W. At best they were of equal volume.

Does anyone know an easy way to do this? I've read some articles but they all involve creating some sort of device with a resistor to place in series with the sub. I ask because I bought a Fi Q series sub (12") that was to be dual 1 ohm (paper work shipped with the sub says dual 1 also). I paired it with a Hi-Fonics Brutus 1208 which lists 900 W output @ 2 ohm. In this setup the sub has never seemed as loud as I expected. Not just a little quieter than expected, but probably 1/2 the expected output. The Brutus eventually went out (haven't figured out why, but have my RMA to get it fixed) so I conducted a little experiment. I connected the sub up to my home receiver for 1 quick test. A) I do not expect this home amp to drive a 2 ohm signal, it is not very expensive (like $120 purchased 6 - 8 years ago). the sub was only marginally louder than the home sub. What does anyone thing? Is it possible I was shipped a dual 2 ohm by accident? The Brutus is rated at 400W @ 4 ohm. If yes, then the "numbers" would start to add up for me. Having a dual 2 ohm is fine since I can run the Brutus at 1 ohm and get 1100 watts out, which should be fine as I rarely push the system to its limits. Let me know what you think.

Okc is where it's at!! I sorta thought I would be the only one here, what little bit I am here And I didn't bother looking up the subs, but if they are 4 Ohm SVC like the post suggested then 4 || 4 = 2, 2 || 4 = 1.33. I make no suggestions on if it's good or not (doesn't sound good), I just like numbers.

Check out the post in the subwoofer forum on Ohm loads: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/ind...p?showtopic=788 Basically since you have 3 subs to hook up and your amp is only 1 or 2 channels you gotta wire the subs together. Depending on if you wire them in series or parallel the resistance your amp sees will not be the 4 Ohms your speakers are rated at. All the subs wired in series would mean 12 ohms for the amp while all 3 in parallel would mean the amp sees 1.33 Ohms like SteelCityGhost said.

Sex, or at least that's what I thought the game was about

Sup y'all. My name is Chad and I'm from Oklahoma City, OK. Stumbled across some Meade videos one night and ended up here as a video junkie, like I'm sure many others are