TH3xBO55
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Did you not go look at what I told you to look at? The bigger the wore the more amperage.......................................
Deffinately a forum rookie, cant find electrical catagory nor do I know what stickyed means.
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He has a fuse between the sub and amp? Like on the speaker wire?
Your right my bad hes got a huge fuse in the trunk plus the one in the engine compartment. Both are from batt to amp. But still why do you use what fuse?
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Well I was curious what ya'lls opinion on fuse usage for your system. I know that my buddy for instance has about 2200 rms going to his sub and he has a huge fuse between his amp and sub plus the standard between batt to amp. Is there a "rule of thumb" when it comes to using fuses? What size, placement, and amount of fuses should one use?
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you will get that smell with a new sub as it heat cycles. what your smelling is the oil and glues on the coil this is normal. now if it gets stronger back off the volume and put your hand on the dustcap if its hot you are clipping it bad. if its warm thats ok but be careful. what you feeling is the heat from the voicecoil
Yeah I thought thats what he said when we first hooked it up. "ahh the new sub smell" LoL. Yeah my lvl4 is in a hatchback(scion tc) so its plenty damn loud for me!
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Its is a brand new sub dont know if there is a "new sub smell"? LoL. Its not strong and I barely notice it. Hell it might be the damn mdf lol.
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lol yea 4 and i want more
i look at it like this if your not clipping the heck out of your amp and arent getting any smell from your sub. then stick with that amp if your happy with the output of it. i heard 1 audiopipe on 2 18xls get loud so they are decent in my opinionYeah Im a noob if you cant tell. LOL. The smell thing kinda of worries me tho. There is something of a smell when its hitting hard which is weird to me because it is not a electric smell(dont know how to explain like its not a smell you get when something electric is messing up.) To be honest im not even sure what clipping your amp means. I had a buddy of mine set my amp and he knows what hes doing but now that you mention smell it worries me.
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Clean vs not clean, meaning, some company's give that rating at a higher distortion rating, meaning the amp is making more power due to the square wave of the signal. Clean power is un distorted and doesn't clip the signal so it is a nice sin wave and NOT a square wave.
So let me see if I got this right, Lets say my amp says it will do 1400rms @ 1ohm w/ 13.4V. If that rating was taken with the amp making the sub distort or basically sound like crap then its given the rating nonclean. AKA even with an amp that gives said rating at an unclean power as long as you set your sub so that it doesnt distort or clip you dont have to worry about you sub being damaged? Basically lesser amps might give an unclean rating which is kind of misleading?
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i use to believe you get what you pay for npw im not so sure anymore case in point i have 2 DD m4s these amps put out 3500w at 11.9v and i paid over $2500 for them well i took them to my amp guy to get looked at (modded) and the boards and components are very similar to hifonics which i can get for about 300 a piece. my amps will do .25 ohms yes but is that worth all the extra money? no. if your audiopipes work for you use them. if you want more power step up to the next line.pretty much all amps are made in china korea or japan, some in brazil etc so there is not a seperate build house for every amp they are built in same houses and use same materials
Do you know what people mean when they say "clean" power or is that just a myth? From what Ive read, what you said seems to be the consensus: As long as the amp gives you the power you need brand doesnt much matter. And btw, 4 DC XL 18"s!?! And I thought my DC lvl4 12" was loud LMAO!
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all i know of is the efficiency of the amp. some amps that says 1500 watts may only put out 1400 or less. sundown is a bit underrated, of i what i read. from sundown, audioque, rockford fosgate, incriminator, stetsom, any brands known on forums are built for quality. on your amp, whats the rating of rms that puts out?
I cant get on almost anything online becuase of my works firewall but If I remember correctly 1400 @1ohm and down from there. Ive heard that some amps give their rated power at a higher voltage than an actual 12v battery puts out and I dont know if thats the case as far as quality amps. Also Ive heard that some amps have "clean" power versus not "clean" power, which I dont understand. Also, there is reliability issues too. What makes an amp more reliable? I spent $300 on a quailty sub and I dont want a bad amp jacking it up.
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I have heard things about why one amp is better than another but I have never quite understood why. For instance I have an audiopipe ap15001d and it works fine for me and was cheap, but people say I should upgrade to a sundown or something similar when I get the money. Why is that? What makes one amp better than another?!?
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Yeah I wanted a budget system that could be heard from a distance and ended up spending $700 and I got an audiopipe amp. Honestly as everyone has pointed out in here $300 is not going to cut it. I spent that much on my one 12". Even crap stuff would be more than that and deffinately would not be heard from a distance.
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Another buddy told me about those cresendo's. They bada** or what?
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I always vote image dynamics.
I saw ur build with those 2 12" DC's and that bada** box you made. Is that brand what you use? Where do you get them?
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what do you mean 4 mids and 2 tweeters. where are their locations in the car?
Got one tweeter in each door(have a 2 door hatch, SCION TC) and a mid in each door + 2 in the back seat area(quarter panel trim). As far as price range I want quality but I dont need a freggin mid thatll do 1000rms you know? LoL
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Well I was wondering what yall's opinion on some good mids and highs speakers would be as far as brand and model. Im going to need 4 mids and 2 tweeters + an amp to push em all. My DC lvl 4 12" is drowning out my stock speakers!
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Yeah lvl 4 12. Scrape together some change and well get em. The bass drown out the stock ones?
Yeah kinda, I can hear em but if they were louder they would sound better for sure. I rolled up to my old shop yesterday and was bumpin, no one believed that it was just one 12"! Got like three dudes wanting us to hook em up LMAO.
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So the guy that owns a shop and is willing to do it for $100 is a good deal?
Yeah I spent about $60 on materials for mine and had my friend build it to spec. You also have to realize just cutting the wood and putting it all together could deff take up a whole saturday and to do it good you would need a table saw(lowes cut all my pieces for free!). $100 is good if he will do a quality box built to your specs. By the way, whoever said box size doesnt matter is a moron, you dont have to be an audio engineer to know how sound works!
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Basically with the larger speaker you'll feel the bass more, you wont be able to tell a difference in sound as long as both setups have the same power and they have correct air space and port space.
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I don't think it'd fit under the driver or passenger seat but I could mount it to the box pick up some rubber washers from walmart. By the way woulda been nice if you didn't leave that half a sheet of mdf at lowes. Fail.
Wasnt thinking!?! Dont hate! The vibrations wont jack up the amp?
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Hey I appreciate all they help bud, now I need mids and highs LMAO. Deffinately getting some looks tho, people wondering where all that noise is coming from!
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he has an alarm but not gonna go off if someone busts out the window in the hatch and grabs it lol.
Yeah thats what I was conerned about. And even if I had an aftermarket alarm I sleep so damn hard that it could be going off till my battery died and I wouldnt wake up. Hey dj, you think it would be a pain to move the amp underneath the seat? What do you think I should do? Mount it to the box?
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Add another board onto the box then mount it to that, try to reduce vibrations as much as possible, maybe even some 1/4 inch thick rubber washers under each of the screws for ventilation and to add another buffer from vibrations.
Cool I think I'm going to. I wanted to leave it off the box so I wouldn't be an easy snatch and grab by some punk thief but I've ran out of options I think. Unless anyone else has other ideas?
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yea thats what i meant was either the front or passanger seat
Not sure if these pics help I took two of them last night. Look at where I have the amp mounted if that gives you a better idea of what Im talking about
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Oh damn, that amp is tiny you should have tones of space to mount that thing.
Ill put pics up later, youll see what im dealing with. I dont want to mount it to my box and my box takes up almost all of my cargo area. So its either up front somewhere or roll with my rear seats folded down all the time, which I was trying to avoid.
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i look at it like this if your not clipping the heck out of your amp and arent getting any smell from your sub. then stick with that amp if your happy with the output of it. i heard 1 audiopipe on 2 18xls get loud so they are decent in my opinion
Fuses for your System
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Size of fuse determined by the amp(s) your using?