Phoenix Gold Phorum

Hello everyone here on the Phorum! As I didn't see an "introduce yourself" section, I will use this one. My name is Ryan, I am 34 yrs old and have been an audiohaulic for as long as I can remember! My first car system was in a 72 caddy. It didn't drive and was parked behind the garage, but the battery still worked. I was a junior in H.S. and saved all my hard earned coins for a sweet kenwood cassette player with auto reverse and a kick-ass set of sony explode 6x9"s for the trunk. Man was that the best. My first official "amped" system was in a 74 pontiac catalina (400 cu.in. motor). The stereo consisted of a pioneer double din cd player, pioneer 6x9's running off deck power(15x4 at the time) and a cerwin vega 18 in a sealed box powered by a california profile 800watt amp. Fast forward to today and I am running a pioneer p9 combo, factory boston acoustic premium 6 speaker setup powered by a jl audio 6 channel amp and 2 12in phoenix ti elites (sealed) running on a soundstream 2000watt monoblock amp. All of this in my 2006 chrysler 300.







I look forward to talking with you people here on the phorum!

Wow, two Elites? That must be insane! Those things are truly beasts of the low end. Most of the other big woofers are biased for much higher bass frequencies for SPL.

By the way I split this out of the "memory lane" thread, since that is for posting pics of your first install. So for example if you had pictures of your Caddy or Catalina installs, that would be where they go. And besides, with your own thread, we can all welcome you properly

Welcome to the Phorum!

New Guy,
Nice gear and welcome to the phorum!

hey welcome

Welcome to the phorum... Do you compete with that system in some way? or is it more of an attention-grabbing thing?

NewOldStock wrote:Welcome to the phorum... Do you compete with that system in some way? or is it more of an attention-grabbing thing?

Would it be a shame if I didn't compete? I have been in car audio since the early 90's and was in only 1 unofficial high school comp. I got second in a 84 camero loaded with boston acoustic seperates, 12in. kicker comp subs and an alpine blueline amp. I don't do car audio to grab attention (although I do get it ). I do it for the enjoyment I get from being an audiophile. Everytime I climb in my car I know I will have a great ride even if it is only to the gas station! I had a 95 maxima with my Pioneer P9, 2 sets of rockford 6.5 component, 2 12in. L5's in a ported box, 2 Pg ms275's, 1 ms1000 t/a, a powercore 15 and the Ti remote relay box. I probaby shoulda competed with that, but being in my part of MN, at that time, shows were few and far between. I am always searching for the next better system and since I'm somewhat of a broke ass. I buy stuff that was great back-in-the-day. There is no way I could have been able to afford any of what I had/have when it was brand new. In the future after I get my car paid off I am looking into making it an SQ car and maybe cmpeteing since there are an increasing number og shows around now. I'll see in a couple of years.
Thanks to everyone who gave me a welcome on the phorum. I'm enjoying it here

Welcome aboard , great bunch of PG enthusiats on here and diggin' the TI12DElites , always wanted a set, just never had the room for'em and is why I'm currently running the one's in my sig.

RaTtlZ wrote:

NewOldStock wrote:Welcome to the phorum... Do you compete with that system in some way? or is it more of an attention-grabbing thing?

Would it be a shame if I didn't compete? I have been in car audio since the early 90's and was in only 1 unofficial high school comp. I got second in a 84 camero loaded with boston acoustic seperates, 12in. kicker comp subs and an alpine blueline amp. I don't do car audio to grab attention (although I do get it ). I do it for the enjoyment I get from being an audiophile. Everytime I climb in my car I know I will have a great ride even if it is only to the gas station! I had a 95 maxima with my Pioneer P9, 2 sets of rockford 6.5 component, 2 12in. L5's in a ported box, 2 Pg ms275's, 1 ms1000 t/a, a powercore 15 and the Ti remote relay box. I probaby shoulda competed with that, but being in my part of MN, at that time, shows were few and far between. I am always searching for the next better system and since I'm somewhat of a broke ass. I buy stuff that was great back-in-the-day. There is no way I could have been able to afford any of what I had/have when it was brand new. In the future after I get my car paid off I am looking into making it an SQ car and maybe cmpeteing since there are an increasing number og shows around now. I'll see in a couple of years.
Thanks to everyone who gave me a welcome on the phorum. I'm enjoying it here

Nothin wrong with that, I can count how many sound competitions I have been to on one hand, never have entered either. I am considering it when I finish my current install just out of curiosity to see what others think.

ttocs wrote:

RaTtlZ wrote:

NewOldStock wrote:Welcome to the phorum... Do you compete with that system in some way? or is it more of an attention-grabbing thing?

Would it be a shame if I didn't compete? I have been in car audio since the early 90's and was in only 1 unofficial high school comp. I got second in a 84 camero loaded with boston acoustic seperates, 12in. kicker comp subs and an alpine blueline amp. I don't do car audio to grab attention (although I do get it ). I do it for the enjoyment I get from being an audiophile. Everytime I climb in my car I know I will have a great ride even if it is only to the gas station! I had a 95 maxima with my Pioneer P9, 2 sets of rockford 6.5 component, 2 12in. L5's in a ported box, 2 Pg ms275's, 1 ms1000 t/a, a powercore 15 and the Ti remote relay box. I probaby shoulda competed with that, but being in my part of MN, at that time, shows were few and far between. I am always searching for the next better system and since I'm somewhat of a broke ass. I buy stuff that was great back-in-the-day. There is no way I could have been able to afford any of what I had/have when it was brand new. In the future after I get my car paid off I am looking into making it an SQ car and maybe cmpeteing since there are an increasing number og shows around now. I'll see in a couple of years.
Thanks to everyone who gave me a welcome on the phorum. I'm enjoying it here

Nothin wrong with that, I can count how many sound competitions I have been to on one hand, never have entered either. I am considering it when I finish my current install just out of curiosity to see what others think.

I was an SPL competitor from around '94-98 ish, my system was more SQL oriented now that I think of it : )
mind you having PG M SERIES power and decent gear and sound deadening also helps!!!!
Competeing was always alot of fun, maybe Ill get back into it on the SQL side of things again just for shits and giggles !!!


oh i almost forgot....welcome to the phorum

You still live in MN? If so, I wanna hear those Ti Elites! I bet those are so loud. Welcome to the Phorum!

lukeman269 wrote:You still live in MN? If so, I wanna hear those Ti Elites! I bet those are so loud. Welcome to the Phorum!

Nice to meat a fellow minnesotan! Yes I still live here. I live in Montevideo. Thats about 2 hours from any metro city. Google maps will tell ya. Anyhow, Where are you from? I would love to give you a demo, unfortunately, I just got rid of the Soundstream and am awaiting my new amp to arive. I then need to redesign my amp rack and do some sound deadening so it may be closer to spring before I get everything done. I'll sure keep in touch though! -RaTtLz

RaTtlZ wrote:

lukeman269 wrote:You still live in MN? If so, I wanna hear those Ti Elites! I bet those are so loud. Welcome to the Phorum!

Nice to meat a fellow minnesotan! Yes I still live here. I live in Montevideo. Thats about 2 hours from any metro city. Google maps will tell ya. Anyhow, Where are you from? I would love to give you a demo, unfortunately, I just got rid of the Soundstream and am awaiting my new amp to arive. I then need to redesign my amp rack and do some sound deadening so it may be closer to spring before I get everything done. I'll sure keep in touch though! -RaTtLz

I live in Blaine. I would definitely like to meet you somewhere to hear your system when spring comes around. I will have to show you what I got too. It's amateur compared to what you got though lol. I got an rsdc 12 hooked up to a 500.2 tantrum with a powergrid hooked up too. I made a shelf for the amp and powergrid that I have yet to paint. I will be painting that when spring comes around. But yeah, I will keep in touch!

Welcome to the Phorum. You'll enjoy yourself around this bunch.

I also run a Hemi C in the summer - a Molten Lava '05. Friggin' rocket. Eats rice and schnitzel all day long. No audio mods yet.

I see you have an SS Tarantula mono block. I do have a BNIB 500.4 of that style.
It's available if you desire. All original including printed box as well as the original non-desript cardboard box.

I did some time in northern MN during the '70s. I had friends in Piney, Manitoba and we used to cross over to Rousseau MN for partying. In those days, when you hit the border after 4 o'clock or on a weekend, there was a traffic cone in the middle of the road and a phone. You were on your honour to call either country's customs department, depending on your direction of travel. Times have changed ....

HH

HoseHead wrote:I did some time in northern MN during the '70s. I had friends in Piney, Manitoba and we used to cross over to Rousseau MN for partying. In those days, when you hit the border after 4 o'clock or on a weekend, there was a traffic cone in the middle of the road and a phone. You were on your honour to call either country's customs department, depending on your direction of travel. Times have changed ....

HH

so, ah, what were you in for?:)

ttocs wrote:

HoseHead wrote:I did some time in northern MN during the '70s. I had friends in Piney, Manitoba and we used to cross over to Rousseau MN for partying. In those days, when you hit the border after 4 o'clock or on a weekend, there was a traffic cone in the middle of the road and a phone. You were on your honour to call either country's customs department, depending on your direction of travel. Times have changed ....

HH

so, ah, what were you in for?:)

That's funny! I was thinking the same thing. hahaha. I would like to get up that way sometime. I hear the country is just spectacular!

Welcome fellow MN'er. Minnesota sucks right now!! It has been so cold, and I work outside all the time. Hopefully we have an early spring so we all can work on are stereo's!!!

Later
Justind

wow......How'd I miss this........

Welcome to the Phorum!!!!!
I really dig the 300 as a street-thug anyhow and having that setup is even better.
The windows are what does it for me...... And an SRT8 option makes it mean......

So have ya had a chance to mic'd it yet? I'm gonna guess 130-140-ish but just thought I'd ask.

Rold Gold wrote:wow......How'd I miss this........

Welcome to the Phorum!!!!!
I really dig the 300 as a street-thug anyhow and having that setup is even better.
The windows are what does it for me...... And an SRT8 option makes it mean......

So have ya had a chance to mic'd it yet? I'm gonna guess 130-140-ish but just thought I'd ask.

Thanks for the welcome! I never had a chance to get on a meter before I traded off my tarantula for an autotek 3000.1 which is still sitting in my livingroom till spring. I plan on a new install this spring and definatly will get on the meter. I don't really know what 130-140 deebeez sounds like but when I was bumpin, my headliner was quakin' to beat hell!

Should of kept the SS!!! I love them!

welcome dude - love the twin elites