in for pics.....

 

no hangover today so im going outside to work on her

 

Portion already done:


So i got bored and decided to build a new box for my 10" JL W7

Goal:

More air space while still retaining the under strut appearance... looking to get around 2 ft^3 before displacement since my last box only had 1.4 before displacement.




heres how shes coming


In the beginning


quick test


more


so far so good


me no like leaky boxs


thought i was kidding


FACE!


Damn im good.... 2.041 ft^3


speaker wire of choice


Stripping her down to her birthday suit



NUDES!!!


Who need a terminal cup when you can run straight wire?



WTF?


make more sense now?


quick test... precision isnt necessary here



I drill holes for fun


got my vinyl today.... so i put it on everything




check out my toe in the bottom right... Note to self: dont drop a sheet of mdf on your foot









ITS WORKING!!!!



amp rack is gone!

 

damn man that looks great good work. Post dash pods nao lol.

 

Holy speaker wire overkill Batman!!!

Build looks nice so far. In for finished product.

 

DAMN! got allot done yesterday but i still cant find my camera

-ran all new speaker wire properly (damn you molex) for front stage 14awg for mids and highs 12awg for mid-bass

-new amp rack with jl 500/1 and both pdx amps

-wired up audiocontrol crossover and eq

-finished crossover and eq rack with raised "Z" logo covered in vinyl

-re wrapped the A-Pillars in vinyl

- Installed HAT L1Pros (awesome)

-And i fu#king ruined one of my midbass speakers now i have to get a new surround for it or just scrap it


dash pods are on hold until i go 4 way

The L4's are designed for infinite baffle so using dash pods wouldnt have been a good idea since it would have taken a large amount of my dash to do that.

so i opted for my door... sealed it off as best as i could and its running infinite baffle now so the response from these things is awesome

dont worry, ill be joining the ranks of dash pods as soon as i get some more money flow... ill be putting L3's in those, require much less room than the L4's

For now its L1Pros in pillars, L4's in doors, qm200 in kicks

no such thing, more wire = less resistance

if the w7 would take 0awg then that would be my speaker wire

 

And you really think that there is an audible.......or even measurable.......difference in the 3 feet of cable from the amp to the sub? I'm not at all trying to be a d!ck here, just saying that there would probably be no measurable difference at all between using your 8awg or some good quality 12awg speaker cable. Of course the 8awg will give that WOW factor if you will be leaving it visible in the finished install.

Anyway, cheers to you for a nice selection of equipment and a nice install so far.

 

nah, not really

just that the w7 accepts it and i had allot laying around so i figured it couldnt hurt anything


thanks, found the camera so im going out to take some pix in a minute

 

didnt have camera yesterday so no build pics

 

coming along very nicely

 

nice

 

thanks guys


sorry for slacking, gotta get in my scientific underwater investigation class

 

looks good man how do the mids sound that low in the doors and far away from the tweets? Im assuming the audiocontrol prob has T/A? Definitely looks great though man i love your box as well.

 

Unfortunately none of the Audio Control Processors have Time Alignment so I am curious as well how this will sound. I am running a DQXS which is amazing but I am missing time alignment. My placement makes up for that issue though. By next year we will see new products from Audio Control that include time alignment. I have been talking to thier techs the last few months.

I too have worked with the Hybrid components and I like them as well. I made pods in a range and they sounded spectacular!

Good job so far!!! Can't wait to see the final results (ahem, all the panels back in!)

 

Like Donor said, no T/A but even with the speaker placement not optimal it sounds awesome... HAT has super wide and smooth dispersion. The L4's come alive in infinite baffle. some of the guys at the shop have not heard of HAT until i started talking about it since they are into bass boxing and bass race (one of them used to do sq many years ago when everything was analog) but they were floored with what these can do with no eq work... now i just have to find time to eq everything out to OMFGAMAZING status

im hoping JBL will get off their ***** and release the MS-8 somethime in the next 20 years... i will be trading up to that.

yeah, im lazy... ill get it done sooner or later.... wanting to get a pdx 1.600 to replace the JL 500/1 and a hefty batcap before i make the false floor

 

sweet man i know what you mean about the ms8 things are getting rediculous waiting for that. I dont know if they will ever release it just seeing how many people they can hold up.

 

right? i wanna punch jbl in the face

 

been a while


but some stuff has changed

started on kick pods for my HAT L4's