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Never heard of DB so I would be cautious with them. Orion that is a name I have not heard in a while. Great stuff to bad they do not

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Old 09-27-2010, 12:05 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Never heard of DB so I would be cautious with them.

Orion that is a name I have not heard in a while. Great stuff to bad they do not make really nice amps anymore.
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Old 09-27-2010, 12:40 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Their old cheater amps were the sex
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Their old cheater amps were the sex
Yes they were UGH
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Old 09-27-2010, 02:00 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Old 09-27-2010, 03:02 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I got one title for you... sonicelectronix.com

You can find a lot of good and inexpensive stuff from them. I use them for everything I do and have never had any issues with shipping, purchasing, quality of items, etc. You won't be disappointed. They also have a lot of stuff on there that you can make an offer and get things for cheaper. Just make sure that whatever you are buying, they are authorized dealers of.
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I like woofersetc.com better to me they have better stuff. But sonic dose have good stuff as well.
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Old 09-28-2010, 05:16 PM   #22 (permalink)
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man... those sound way too over priced... u sure u wanna go with that?

Jayyoon... I did my homework... and they are not overpriced... or better yet... show me where I can get them cheaper.
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Old 09-28-2010, 05:19 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Sounds like you are going to make quite the system there.

Since <some> seem hesitant about the JL 13", I'll post up some alternatives.

DB Drive actually makes decent products. its a new company, most likely out of China; but they are probably making some decent stuff for what I can tell, and for good prices. The company has won several DB and SQL competitions recently. They make a 12" woofer that is shallow-mount and you can check it out here:

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Another shallow mount is Pioneer; for which I am partial to because I own a shallow 10". They are about 3" mounting depth in both 10" and 12" form; meaning you can likely keep your spare tire. Pioneer USA - Home. My little 10" flat piston Pioneer is currently stuffed into a .2cu sealed box - it barely fits the magnet - and sounds beautiful; sacraficing sound efficiency in favor of trunk space. Its actually embarassed a few systems.

As for Pioneer, if you like the stuff you can get it all from Amazon and use a 30% off coupon I posted several days back. The Amazon coupon code for Pioneer discounts is VRCBKCX6. Im not sure if its still active...

Dont use rear speakers.

Also, the Metra Axxess works well enough; I posted some procedures here if you care to take a look.

Get the Axxess ASWC working - All buttons

As for amps, well; I am partial for the old Class AB circa 1990s. You can probably pick up some Hifonics (Made by Zed), Orion HCCA, or Precision power Art or Powerclass series for the same or even less than cheap new amps today. Ive actually found that these old amps are selling for dimes on the dollar of what they used to be worth; meanig you can get a $500 amp from the 90s for less than $100. I got a PPI PC2150 (150x2 rms at 4ohms) for $80 off Craigslist; this amp costed $600 brand new; and they sound phonomenally good and clean at the cost of drawing more power.
Thanks for the info bro... Ill keep you posted with what I do.

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Ever consider the Stereo Integrity mkIII. Its gotten great reviews. Im looking to get one myself
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Well folks... for the past two days I have been laying down some dead shield (same thing as dynamat just a different name) and I am exhausted! This is some backbreaking work! I ended up using almost 50 pounds (48.2 to be exact) of the stuff and the amount of noise that has been eliminated is pretty freaking incredible!

This is how it worked out:
Trunk: 8 18inx32in sheets (32 sq ft)
doors: 1 18inx32in sheet per door (8 sq ft)
Interior: 6 18inx 32in sheets (24sq ft)

64 sq ft in all. You may think this is overkill... but the sounds that I am not hearing makes the trouble that I went through very worthwhile.

I want to give a special shout out to SlikNik and his very helpful videos and pg6speed for his reassurance.

Here are some of the pics from yesterday and today. I will post more as the sound system install progresses.

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I realize that I forgot to take pics of the floor boards :-/
I will post those up on part two of the install which hopeully will happen next weekend.
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where did you get dead shields?
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I got them from Wicked CAS when I ordered my magic box.
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IMO NOT over kill at all, i think i ended up with about 75 sq feet in mine, most 3mm thick.
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