Diamond Audio Thoughts

[brandon9491]

anyone have/heard a diamond audio system? They seem pretty decent for the price. Just want a second opinion. im looking at the diamond audio D112D2.2(2) in a sealed box under the seats of my truck.any info on it would be helpful.

[Twostrokeking]

Diamond IMO is one of the cleanest there it. They get LOUD

[pa-pa-platypus]

ive hear a pair of the d6 12's on bout 2k..definately a clean and loud system especially for what he had in it..thats my only personal experience with them lol

[larrys95civic]

Did a build with 2 12" D3 series a guy ordered off ebay, think they were recones from factory if i remember correctly. Anyways they can take some power and sound clean. we did a ported, rear firing box in a grand prix with a rockford 1500bd-1. I'll try to dig up pics.

[bigmescan]

Buddy of mine has 2 12's in a center console. I think the D2's sealed and then he has 2 more under the rear seat. (I know it doesn't make sense but that's what he wanted) and all diamond components. And it sounds pretty damn good. Doesn't hit the lows very well. But he has almost 2grand in equipment and the labor to install it. For that price he could have done better.

Edited November 17, 2011 by bigmescan

[loganberry]

Friend of mine...well not a friend anymore went to a shop in Chico,CA that sells diamond audio. They ended up talking him into them doing a full diamond audio install at the same time I was trying to talk him into letting me do the audio install just like I did all the engine mods and all other performance stuff, well he ended up picking the shop cause he thought they would do it faster and cheaper. Long story short it wasn't faster it was the only vehicle at the shop and all 4 employees were working on it non stop and it took 5 weeks and they didn't even do anything over the top. They used 4 sets of diamond hex components but they mounted the tweeter on the mid and put a set in each door and all this went in a 2009 f-250 with a 10" lift and 40" tires. Anyway they made a hard foam face that covered the cubbyholes on each door and cut out the holes for 2 speakers in each door with like I said the tweeter mounted right on the mid so whenever you shut the door and someone was sitting in that seat those mids and highs got totally muffled and they got plenty of power, they were ran off. Big diamond audio 4 channel that I had to re set the gains on cause they had bass boost halfway up and all kinds of dumb shit. They put in the best Kenwood excelon double din head unit they made at the time and had the settings for bass for the doors so high it all started distorting at volume 14 (I demo my Kenwood deck at 25-27 and it goes to 35 just like his). So I had to fix that too. The stock speaker locations they just put red led strips that when the sun hit it right you could see the Velcro and white zip ties in his black interior. Now the sub box was kinda cool till it came to the port, he didn't wanna lose much space so the main cubic footage of the enclosure was the middle seat of the front with alot of padding on top and all wrapped on leather and fiberglassed just enough for the stock arm rest/cup holder flip up back rest could flip up still. Then it went back and the sub was inverted right between the legs of the rear passenger and it was also a diamond audio hex d9 sub a single 12" then they got completely stupid and did a 1.5 inch high 5 inch wide and 11 inches deep external port firing under the rear seats in the floor also ran by another diamond audio amp but this time the bass boost was turned all the way up gain almost all the way up and lpf at 3/4. Behind the seats they put 4 very small stinger batteries equivalent to the same size as a kinetik 600 all with 0 gauge wire but to distribution blocks and 4 gauge going to each amp with no fuses. They also did headrest monitors and I've never seen someone so not qualified to do something of that experience required just about every other day he would have to push them back in and half the time they wouldn't show what was on the main screen. They also put a ps3 in which h was kinda cool they held it to the.back wall with red led lit Plexiglas but the power inverter to turn it on was under the passenger seat which was electric so you had to slide it all the way forward and tilt the front down to get to the on switch. They also upgraded both his front batteries with stinger batteries that looked like they were about the size of kinetik 2400s but didn't do a big three and only did 1 run of 0 gauge from front to.back for power. For all the extra.batteries I'm the back they were grounded to a seat bolt or with self taping metal screw on the floor I can't remember. After I fixed their gain fuck ups and went through and fixed the settings in the deck when no one was in there it didn't sound half bad. The bass was a joke bit when you turned it up with a truck full of people the mids and highs were all muffled by everyones thighs it was sad, and the shop not only had his truck for 5 weeks they charged him in the ballpark of 13,000$. So that's my little rant sorry its so long it just makes me mad. I could have done it better for him...louder, cleaner sounding. Done alot faster and so so much cheaper. So as far as the diamond equipment in this case its great for tailgating cause other than that on the way home its gonna sound like shit. So if your in Chico stay far away from all around sound. They offered me a job there a year or so ago after I gave them a demo and they bailed so I hate that shop. I just had to rant to and show first hand how they don't know what there doing.....and his sub would only play songs that were in the high 40hz range cause the swamp donkey port. And he's retarded when it comes to stereos so he brought it to my place after he got it and.before I fixed the amps railing his chopped and screwed CD. That's one plus I can give the sub though I heard the coil smacking the back plate on every note and I look over and he's just bobbin his head lmao....alright enough ranting you get the idea those cock suckers

[MDWSTBoom]

I've had the D3's pretty good for the price I paid didn't hit the lows that well but still nice and loud. My daughter has 4 8's in her trunck right now don't know the series there older but i built the box at 3.5 cubes ported and tuned to 34hz with a old school reference 1.0 and they sound amazing really great SQ for subs hanling twice there rms.