Car Audio Competition Tomorrow. Any Advice?

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Impressive flexing there

There's an Astro Van there that does 181's. It looks like an armored vehicle. Everything is bolted shut except the drivers door. It doesn't even have permanent seats in it.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

People would stage in the staging lanes with their 15-20K amp and compete in multiple classes. 3K, 7K, 10K, and unlimited. They would just run their volume up to the max wattage of each particular class and post a score. I guess that is all part of the Car Audio game.

Probably not exactly in the spirit of the thing, but if people want to run a dozen classes at 35$ a pop more power to whomever is organizing those shows and I'm confident that the person building around efficiency at 1000W will have an edge over the person building around making everything withstand 20K, that is of course assuming they separate somehow by cone area, extreme mods, walls, etc.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Probably not exactly in the spirit of the thing, but if people want to run a dozen classes at 35$ a pop more power to whomever is organizing those shows and I'm confident that the person building around efficiency at 1000W will have an edge over the person building around making everything withstand 20K, that is of course assuming they separate somehow by cone area, extreme mods, walls, etc.

I'm pretty sure that I lost to cone area in my class. I had to compete against somebody with 2-15's on 3K clamped. They had over 350 sq. inches of cone area compared to my 200 square inches of cone area.

 

[SlugButter]

I'm pretty sure that I lost to cone area in my class. I had to compete against somebody with 2-15's on 3K clamped. They had over 350 sq. inches of cone area compared to my 200 square inches of cone area.

Yeah. That makes a difference. Without doing a blow through you’re going to have a difficult time keeping up with cone area.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Yeah. That makes a difference. Without doing a blow through you’re going to have a difficult time keeping up with cone area.

I don't think that you can do a blow through in the novice class. I could be wrong though.

 

[SlugButter]

I don't think that you can do a blow through in the novice class. I could be wrong though.

I’m not sure. You probably know the rules better than I do.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

I’m not sure. You probably know the rules better than I do.

Not really. That was the first time and probably last time that I compete.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

I'm pretty sure that I lost to cone area in my class. I had to compete against somebody with 2-15's on 3K clamped. They had over 350 sq. inches of cone area compared to my 200 square inches of cone area.

Problem is the best they can do is just make brackets, but depending on the size of the org you break it up too much and then there's only 1 person in each class. We had a bit of that here, walls used to be 3 classes (based on cone area) then another class for extreme (cement filled doors, heavily reinforced roofs, etc.), now we only have 2 cone area classes for walls, the first cutting off at appx the area of 2 18s then from that to unlimited.

Not really. That was the first time and probably last time that I compete.

That's unfortunate. Win, lose, or indifferent it's nice when people show up and support shows, meetups, or competitions.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Problem is the best they can do is just make brackets, but depending on the size of the org you break it up too much and then there's only 1 person in each class. We had a bit of that here, walls used to be 3 classes (based on cone area) then another class for extreme (cement filled doors, heavily reinforced roofs, etc.), now we only have 2 cone area classes for walls, the first cutting off at appx the area of 2 18s then from that to unlimited.



That's unfortunate. Win, lose, or indifferent it's nice when people show up and support shows, meetups, or competitions.

I don't want to compete if I don't even have a chance. I would possibly compete if there was a cone area class. I could actually switch to 4-10's in my box if I really wanted to compete. 147.8 with 4-8's is fine for me in my daily. Is clamping 2,505 on a 3,500 watt good or bad? I don't know anything about clamping.

 

[mrj858 10+ year member]

I was there….I did Basswars….MECA and DBDrag

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

I was there….I did Basswars….MECA and DBDrag

I probably should've competed at Bass Wars since they have cone area classes. 200 square inches of cone area isn't very much.

 

[SlugButter]

I don't want to co.pete if I don't even have a chance. I would possibly compete if there was a cone area class. I could actually switch to 4-10's in my box if I really wanted to compete. 147.8 with 4-8's is fine for me in my daily. Is clamping 2,505 on a 3,500 watt good or bad? I don't know anything about clamping.

That’s not bad getting 2500. Impedance rise gets everyone.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

That’s not bad getting 2500. Impedance rise gets everyone.

So the subs are getting about 625 watts each and they are rated at 650 watts rms. I could switch to 10's and a 5K but it's not practical since I don't really compete and 4-8's sounds cooler. To me anyway.

 

[SlugButter]

So the subs are getting about 625 watts each and they are rated at 650 watts rms. I could switch to 10's and a 5K but it's not practical since I don't really compete and 4-8's sounds cooler. To me anyway.

I like 8s. I’m a fan of 10s myself. 3 sealed JL W3 10s was probably my favorite sounding system. Not the loudest, but still my favorite system I’ve owned for jamming tunes and drowning out the world.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

I like 8s. I’m a fan of 10s myself. 3 sealed JL W3 10s was probably my favorite sounding system. Not the loudest, but still my favorite system I’ve owned for jamming tunes and drowning out the world.

I think I was one of the only vehicles who metered in the 30's. Everybody else was anywhere from 45-60 hz. I don't get it. This was one guy for example.