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Peel and Seal.

And not having enough bass to your liking.

Audio systems that sound like shit.

People who tweak their audio settings to where "it sounds best" to their tone deaf ears.

People bumping who are distorting like a mother.

Bumping in inappropriate places and/or times.

Brand fanboy/girlism.

Hazardous wiring.

Poor construction.

Poorly thought out construction.

Afterthought construction.

System bullshiting.

People spewing bullshit like they know what they are talking about but really don't have a fucking clue. And then when people believe them. (double whammy)

Breaking shit you can't afford at the moment.

Always blowing the most expensive thing despite your caution and attention to detail in setup and installation.

2007 Mazda 3s Sport- Custom Short Ram, Vibrant 4-2-1 Header, Trubendz Exhaust, Magnaflow Resonator and XL Muffler, Mazdaspeed Springs, 18" Baccarats with Tigerpaw GTZ 225/40R 18's

Awards:

MECA Phat Car 1st Place

MECA Show n' Tell : 112.5db's on whatever was in my CD changer

MECA SQL Stock 1st Place

MECA Import Mild 2nd Place

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Breaking shit....and not being able to find out where a certain small noise is coming from

Or knowing where the small sound is coming from, and not being able to cure it; i.e., my door locks.

Lol...i have air vents on my doors and the mid bass makes the lil tab that control which way it blows rattle....only solution is removing it or putting tape on it..lol

My POS Bass machine-
2003 Hyundai Santa Fe on some shitty 22's
Bed Liner Paint Job-Pioneer AVH 3200DVD
4 DAD BD series 15's in a 4th Order (Bassheads ENT Design)
4 Arc Audio XDI2000.1 for the woofers
6 Cadence CVL68MBX 6.5's-Cadence CVL88MBX 8's-6 Cadence XT20 Supertweeters
2 Arc Audio KS300.4's for mids and tweets
1 Arc Audio ALD 10v Line Driver
All Audiotechnix Power wire
1 DC Power 270XP High Output Alternator
1 XS Power D3400 up front....6 XS Power D3100's in the rear
Air Lift 1000 Bags in rear to help with suspension
If your still reading this GFY.......

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Posted

Breaking shit....and not being able to find out where a certain small noise is coming from

Or knowing where the small sound is coming from, and not being able to cure it; i.e., my door locks.

Lol...i have air vents on my doors and the mid bass makes the lil tab

that control which way it blows rattle....only solution is removing it or putting tape on it..lol

Lol i got an airvent in the trunk with gorilla tape all over it.lol

145.9@40hz

145.3@34hz

big 3

X2 group 34

Deka Group 31

All 0/1 awg jl meta wire

Alpine CDA 7894

Orion HCCA D5000

2 AQ HDC312's

Crunch gpv1100.2 (for 6.5"s only)

AQ pro audio 6.5" - 3 sets

AQ supertweeters - 2 sets

2000 Slamry

Posted

having to walk everywhere...

when I only make $8 an hour and I need a vehicle NOW, because my truck crapped out on me.

having to look at my truck everyday as I start waking to work....

spending over $1100 in the engine to get it to run right but when I fix one thing something else breaks

not being able to go to/leave party's when I want because I have to go with someone.

having to walk everyfyckingwhere...

being poor

having to walk everygoddamnwhere....

having my 2 DC 8s look at me everyday when I go to bed, begging me to be listened to but I can't do anything about it

Posted

Prob not a first:

People with 50hz peaking boxes for daily, with distorting ear scarring tweeters in the A-pillars with stock (or crappy) midbass drivers in the doors you can barely hear over the sound of BOOM-TSS-BOOM-TSS-BOOM-TSS-BOOM-TSS!! And when they show you their two 10" Kickers(not hating on Kicker) on the 5000W amp with dual 40A fuses with their small power wires and capasitor - because of headlight dimming - with the ground on the thinnest sheat of metal you can find, without any part of "the big 3" done.. Oh, and when they're only running half power because of gain at 50%.

And I've only heard a handfull of systems...

Posted

I was explaining to my buddy about that(half gain half power).lol he knows everything b/c hes been doing it for years.lol i explained that his gain knob on his amp (hifonics "SUPER"(lol) class d amp) is not a volume knob he argued all night with me about it so i finally let him win. Then he went on about his amp saying SUPER class d amp.lol I showed him his amp specs online 2000rms@1ohm he said thats not my amp mine says SUPER it has to do more than that.lol i did not waste my time telling him about them not doing rated power.that was a couple days ago id still be argueing with him about that one.lol some ppl.

145.9@40hz

145.3@34hz

big 3

X2 group 34

Deka Group 31

All 0/1 awg jl meta wire

Alpine CDA 7894

Orion HCCA D5000

2 AQ HDC312's

Crunch gpv1100.2 (for 6.5"s only)

AQ pro audio 6.5" - 3 sets

AQ supertweeters - 2 sets

2000 Slamry

Posted

Whoops double post

145.9@40hz

145.3@34hz

big 3

X2 group 34

Deka Group 31

All 0/1 awg jl meta wire

Alpine CDA 7894

Orion HCCA D5000

2 AQ HDC312's

Crunch gpv1100.2 (for 6.5"s only)

AQ pro audio 6.5" - 3 sets

AQ supertweeters - 2 sets

2000 Slamry

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when a kid brags about how nice his brand new mustang sounds with the shaker 500 system in it while playing low bitrate music at a distorting volume. while on the other hand, everyone knows that my car sounds so much nicer and cleaner (just comparing mids and highs) on less than "half" the power. (saying half because idk if that 500 means 500w max or rms. sure as shit doesnt sound like rms)

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It's max my dad has it lol it does like 260 rms

--2004 Toyota 4runner

New Build Log

-2002 Acura Tl-S

Old Build Log

Team DC Audio

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spl dust is an option you can get on the coils... it's great for extra 1000 watts of power

where can i get this spl dust and how much is it. is it hard to apply? lol
Posted

1. a shit ton of pa speakers and bullet tweets in cars but only running sub setups of like 2 12"s or 4 sealed 15's in a upwards firing enclosure where hardly any of it can actually get in the car.

2. people asking me to build them a box, me giving them a cheap price (80-100 bucks for 2 12-15" box) them spending more for the crappy boxes the local shops sell, them still wondering why they can't get louder than my 1 15"

3.a bunch off 10-20 dollar chrome tweets everywhere in the car. them telling me "yeah u beating but need more highs" yeah i know that but i rather save up and do it the right way and at least mine sounds smooth (until you crank it)

4.people who think trunk rattle= loudest

5.people who are quick to paint their car some tacky ass two-tone, buy ugly ass 22-24's but don't want to buy the basic shit u need to install.

6. ikesound.com i had no problems with them back in '04 but when i tried to order a avh 4100dvd from them last year it took 2 weeks for them to tell me that it wasn't instock, I had been thinking that navi, and bluetooth would be more useful than dvd playback so i sent them more money to get the avic x710bt, and had to wait 2-3 more weeks for them to tell me it wasn't in stock and then thier price for it rose without it ever re stocking. i asked for a refund and just ordered from sonicelectronix.

7. how when u buy shit u find other equipment u like better for around the same price but it wouldn't be worth it to sell your shit for way less than u paid then add more money to get the new shit that u saw. I was split between the Fi bl and DC lvl 4xl and decided fi since i wouldn't have to bother findind a dealer. then i found out about the TFS edition lvl 4xl's that would have been just as easy to get my hands on,(i perfer the cosmetics of a full inverted dustcap than dome and i'm going for looks as well as performance in this build) or how i was considering running sundown amps but the SAZ1500d was way out my budget so i got the powerbass in my sig. then i found out recently i could have got a refurbed saz1500d from db-r.com for less than what i paid for my powerbass.

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