The limits of what you can achieve with a small(er), sensitive driver in a well thought out enclosure are pretty extensive. Bose pretty much cornered an entire consumer market on that principle, however uninformed they may be. Now how linear the reproduction will be is another story (see: Bose). I d...

I'm currently running Phantom Soundz proto neo8" sub .. it's an impressive sub, still need to build a proper sub box for it (Phantom Soundz owner recommended a box size 0.6 tuned at 32Hz .. anyone got some box building sofware I could use? I haven't found any freeware for OSX yet, so I have us...

@trickyricky Yeah considering these are taken with the flagship model point and shoot Cybershot...from 2002 :lol: ....the pics it takes aren't 1/2 bad. It doesn't cooperate with my Mac though or I would have gotten these up a lot sooner. So by "correct size" in your last post do you mean t...

Thank you my dudes. I remembered the meter today so I can check any values that would be helpful for advice. I'll grab more pics as well and show more of the real estate to show where exactly these are and how things are oriented. I really appreciate the assistance, I've been looking forward to gett...

I've finally gotten the time and motivation to recap my ancient ZX350 that's been collecting dust since the 90s. I got everything disassembled to start cleaning and remove the old caps, and found several burnt resistors as shown in the pics. I have very little knowledge of the inner workings of circ...

Possible the shield connection of the RCA jack to the board for that channel has failed. check continuity between the shield on the jack where the RCA cable gets connected and ground...assuming its a common ground amp which the older PGs I have appear to be. I don't know much about the Octanes. If t...

a couple possible options here I think too http://www.apexjr.com/amps.html

Figure out the format requiring the highest resolution you intend to play in the car, and look for something that can support it. A 24bit/192khz lpcm dac would cover you up to blu-ray 7.1 surround territory. You wouldn't use the headphone jack if you were going to an external DAC, unless its a dual ...

A lot of speaker builders strive for angles to avoid internal standing waves. When you get into full range multiple driver alignments like home speakers it can get hairy, especially angling the the baffle forwards or backwards. For a sub box that size, that shouldn't be a problem, and it shouldn't a...

I am interested in your post and what you mention, but unfortunately for me, I am currently using a Mac at home, so I never looked at your links, assuming they won't work on my computer. I have a PC laptop I will be switching to in a few months, so then I thought I would try it out. I def run audac...

I just figured out that the way I have the 4 channel wired is a two channel mono bridge (only feeding front L+R input in 2 channel and bridged across front and back vs. bridging across both lefts and both rights). Don't know if that could cause my issue, I'm not sure how it would, but I can't reach ...

I just got a Tantrum 500.2 off ebay and it showed up the other day packed in what may as well have been a brown paper bag. I wanted to test it asap to make sure I didn't get a DOA and had a chance this evening. Now my setup is still incomplete, as of now I just have my ipod running out of the 1/8&qu...

You need to have a pretty high snake oil content to pull big bucks on speaker wire. That's the only way it will open the 3d soundstage even close to the 4th dimension and provide the walloping vividity to compare to true audiophile wire. /idiocy

As someone who worked in shipping for 15 years, including handling US Mail, I pack the F&%# out of everything I sell and ship, to the point where people have called me laughing to express their appreciation. ttocs hit the nail on the head, though there are some parts of the process that are stil...

low 8s with it in the qtr @ near 170 mph... man that's a kinda low (relatively speaking) trap for that quick...I imagine it feels like one of those aircraft carrier catapults that shoot the fighter jets for take off coming out of the hole. freaking nice car man, need to say it again. A single turbo...

ttocs wrote:love forced induction fox's. Nice color combination too.

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will that vortech do 1k? turbo guy, no idea on SCs

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Correct me if im wrong but even 2V RMS will clip the preamp (and power stage) of an M series amp if you turn up the gain enough. A "4V signal" wont clip anything before its a 4V signal = before you turn the volume up all the way. The difference here is that with a 2V signal you cant make ...

I wanna say the idevices are less than 1 volt at full blast ideal source material, so yeah depending on how you have it hooked up and with what other stuff, adding a gain stage/line driver/preamp can make a definite improvement. That is my plan, no head unit just mp3 player and preamp. i had a mp3 ...

Just a thought... I notice a huge difference in overall volume when I play different sources. CD's are LOUD, USB stick is LOUD, but my ZUNE is lower. Before my car got broke into I had built a little "OP AMP" or head phone amplifier that increased my initial MP3 players volume before it g...

Just playing devil's advocate, but I've played 320kbps mp3s (even lower bit rate on occasion) on a few of the most regarded club installations on the east coast, and I can guarantee you that no one had any idea they were mp3s simply by listening. For most listeners, an mp3 will be more distinguishab...

How did you do that diagram of your setup? Paintbrush (microsoft) old skool 8) lol I think I am understanding what you guys are saying. If I am passing a full range signal to the component set, I will get distortion very quickly when turning up the gains. If I set the (hi-pass) on the xs4600 or usi...

You may be right Drock, but I don't think that's the problem. For one has the ability to reduce the gain at the EQ, but even a 4V preout is only going to be probably b/w 1-2V when its playing music loud. Plus a moderate 10db of gain overlap can usually be achieved by increasing gain 1V give or take....

I'm sure someone with more expertise can give you a better answer, but it sounds like the alternator's voltage regulator isn't doing its job properly or was modified improperly. I would ask the rebuilder, but I'm pretty sure even if you add some type of voltage dividing network, if the regulator isn...

Wait I think I misread, you are running just the components with the 4600? so fronts bridged to one side and rears bridged to the other, and another amp is powering the subs? You should have more than enough power to drive those components down to a reasonable cutoff freq. with that amp imo. I would...

What is your source? Are you filtering there or using the amps xover? To start I would 1. make sure the dip switch on the RSD xover is set at 0db. 2. turn up the amp's gain for the components, if your gains are all the way down (least sensitive) especially. I'm a pretty firm believer in at least a f...