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  7. Porsche 911 (930) Turbo Pioneer DEH-80PRS / Focal Polyglass / Fiberglass Box JL Audio

    in Del Rey Customs - Innovative Solutions for Innovative People

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    I've never seen the box actually built in the floor board. But I guess for such a small care there really isn't a lot of places to put it.

    Its better than taking out the back seat and putting 2 15 in.....wait a minute there is A SOLUTION !

    As if the back seat of a porshe has any room for someone to sit in it lol

    I would love to do 2 Rockford T2 15 inch subs and 2 Rockford Power T2500.1BD amps with a DC power alternator 2 Stinger 1500 Batts. That Would be sick and a great build. All painted black enclosures with a white Led Porsche glowing out the back window that would light up red when you hit the brake.

    Any takers Just Pay Labor. Well get Rockford to hook up 50% off on product and cost on everything else. LA Auto show or CES anyone?

    I think theres a purple civic that would fit that description....

    btw cool install. but next time....cheat and use bass shakers on the seats!

  10. The L.A. Gunman (x-cop) drama unfolding now!!

    in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"

    Posted

    Also where were his guns? Did they find any in the truck or in the cabin?? Wtf the public has been totally left out of information

    From what I heard last night when the cabin owners son called into CNN, those cabins were searched two days prior by LEO. so most likely the only weapons Dorner had were what he was able to carry, so I would assume, based on his training etc... a rifle of some sort with mags and ammo, and perhaps a side arm with the same, not an entire arsenal.

    but I mean where are the reports of ANY weapons found in the cabin.

  12. The L.A. Gunman (x-cop) drama unfolding now!!

    in Off Topic - Random, Misc posts - the forum "Junk Drawer"

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    Just to add to how incompetent and reckless LAPD is, the truck the mother and daughter were driving, was not even the same color as Dorners. Way to be LAPD. If that had happened to my family, my wife, my daughter, I'd own that entire department. I would also press for aggravated assault and/or attempted murder charges to be brought on the dimwits that wrongly shot up my shit. That is inexcusable, no ifs and or buts about it. Especially the truck that wasnt even the same color. Keepin my big white ass outta LA, based on current events, they might mistake my 6'4'' 260lb self for a midget of a different race that's on the run and shoot the fuck outta me.

    You prob couldn't even sue them. They have too much power and everyone is connected a judge could say too bad you matched the description of the killer and were in the area. Sucks for you

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  13. Sundown Component Review SA-6.5CS

    in Sundown Audio - GREAT Amps/Subs! GREAT Customer Service!

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    I am re-tooling the external housing of the tweeters with our logos in them to spice it up a bit -- so that may help with feeling less "generic" to customers. That will show up along with the revised housing later in the year.

    I am also pretty anxious for the reference set ; and I am also developing an "X" level set (details not public yet).

    Damnit Jacob, can I atleast enjoy these speakers for 6 months before I have to spend more money on your new set!! :)

    Btw I really want that prototype X 15. SA-8v1 is fantastic for sq, but I'm still lacking that BUMP

  15. Will this overdue my 2 SA-12's?

    in Sundown Audio - GREAT Amps/Subs! GREAT Customer Service!

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    I love these,"can I over power my subs" threads. Why do you find it necessary to drive double the RMS power to a sub. You can NOTHING. It is not going to do anything magical when you throw double the RMS to them. What it has a GOOD likelihood of doing is sending a lot of extra heat. Granted that they are well built and can take tons of power, but why are so people so interested in this? It's it just so you can brag and say,"yeah I am running 1200 watts to each of my SA12's and they're taking it like champs"? Also, youre but very likely with efficiency and impedance rise to see the full 2400 watts anyway. Do you really want to be that customer that has the story,"I was told I could run 1200 watts to a sub rated for 600 watts and it blew, I have no idea why"? Please keep it simple and buy an amp that does 1200-1500 and call it a day.

    To push products to the limit. On the 3500 I believe each SA was getting around 900rms and it only got too hot at 23hz and lover

  17. Sundown Component Review SA-6.5CS

    in Sundown Audio - GREAT Amps/Subs! GREAT Customer Service!

    Posted · Edited by HunterJohnson

    We've considered offering a metal or other hard material tweeter as an option ; there will be two groups on the tweeter -- those who like it and those who don't. To me it's the ideal sound in a lower cost unit ; super smooth and flat response and non-fatiguing -- but this is not what everyone wants. I am taking away from the review that you prefer a hard dome ?

    The tweeter housing is an open tool unit -- as it's very compact and offers a swivel feature. I looked into tooling a metal housing, which would have no sound benefit but would look cool, but we'd also lose the swivel feature. The internals of the tweeter vary from many other units in the same housing ; we've tested several for it -- with many variations of an acoustic lens, ferrofluid or not, rear dampening materials, etc. What we settled on was no lens, heavy damping, and ferrofluid in the gap. As with woofer baskets being pretty universal the same goes for tweeter housings -- but we appreciate the feedback on it.

    Also I've started a tooling on a bit nicer crossover housing; the housing was also an open tool unit that fit the parts we wanted -- the new housing will offer a bit more flexibility (and be compatible with other future component sets) and will show up later in the year -- thanks for the feedback :)

    PS: Did you try running the tweeters closer to the mid LPF frequency ? We have them at 3.8khz in the passive with decent overlap.

    Jacob, thanks for getting back to me,

    I prefer a silk soft dome tweeter like the one you have in your product. I just felt the tweeter housing made it very generic and looked exactly like my hifonics zues 6.5 components.

    I don't mind much how the crossovers look bc they work great with the extra option. But that would be even better to have tooled a little nicer as the housing again is pretty generic.

    The reason I have my tweeters at 6.5k is because I'm using my hifonics tweeters and they are high on the doors and they sounded the smoothest at 6.5k with minimal gain.

    I think I expected more from the tweeter personally because the mid is fantastic and I would have liked to see a little more tooling with the tweeter or just something that made the tweeter stand out like the mid does sound quality wise and overall appearance.

    I did test the whole set as well on the cross over and it does sound decent but of course running them active sounds even better but the highs I feel are still missing something, too bland for me.

    Can't wait to hear your reference series, my dealer in SoCal has them ordered alrdy!! Might convince me to buy them lol

  18. Sundown Component Review SA-6.5CS

    in Sundown Audio - GREAT Amps/Subs! GREAT Customer Service!

    Posted

    Here's my review on the new Sundown SA-6.5CS


    I'm powering the doors active with Alpine F407 the mids are LP'd at 3800 and the tweeters are HP'd at 6000hz running off a pioneer 4300DVD.

    After an hour of tweeking I am very happy with the results. I listened to the pair for about an hour at nearly max volume and have no listening fatigue (only about 60rms)

    The sundown mids are very powerful and play cleanly pretty low around 80 hz. There is alot of bass for not being sealed in the door and pretty much freeaired. These speakers allowed me to listen to old music over again because of how smooth the sound was and how my newly tuned system sound. I started to timealign it (cheating) by using the pioneer sonic setting an moving it over 3 to the left side. It separated the vocals and instruments just enough to make me really indulge in the music but of course there is still plenty of room to sound even better.

    Tomorrow I will continue to tune and I will most likely add a single 12" sealed or my sundown 8" ported off my Alpine MRV T757

    We'll it's been a while since I wrote this review on my build thread and I wanted to update my review and also post it on SMD

    I continued tuning it and settled with HPF at 80hz on HU and LP'd at 3850 on the mids and gain all the way down on the tweeters HP'd around 5500 if I remember correctly.

    Also added the SA-8 tuned 33.5 ported and off the MRV T757 crossed over at 80hz

    The sound is a solid 8/10 from the speakers, the mids sound great, are powerful and sound even better in my ported fiberglassed kick pops. I am impressed by the sundown mids, but unfortunately not by the tweeters. The tweeters look and sound very generic like any other silk dome tweeter. I ended up sticking with my rockford tweeters instead of switching them out. Also the crossover looks cheap, but don't let that fool you with the ability to adjust the mid +/- 3db and the tweeter as well.

    Overall I rate the sundown components 7/10 mostly because the mid sounds fantastic and a decent cross over, but lost points for price and a generic tweeter. I'd say 200 dollars is a tad over priced for the set as I can purchase Pioneer TS-D1720C 6.75 D Series Components for under half price of the sundowns.

    Thanks for reading my extremely long review

  20. Z v.4 15" Prototype Built Up

    in Sundown Audio - GREAT Amps/Subs! GREAT Customer Service!

    Posted

    We have an Sd reduction of about 10% on the 12s and 15s -- no SD reduction at all on the 10 (it's slightly over-sized) -- 10% SD is ~0.3dB compared to increasing the displacement limits by enough to equal about 1.5 to 2 dB and also all but eliminating suspension component and glue joint failures, reducing distortion dramatically, etc.

    It doesn't take a speaker designer to guess which one most folks will prefer; especially in the age of low priced / high power amplifiers.

    The real truth is that there are almost NO surrounds out there today that can handle truly HIGH excursion beyond the mid to high 30s range reliably -- none of the lauded "high rolls" can do it when one does the math on their rolls. It may take a while for folks to adjust to it but I am willing to bet you'll see many others following suit.

    So all with good reason :)

    thanks for explaining this. Makes alot more sense to me now

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