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    New to car audio(not just the website)

    Thanks 727, finally got around to throwing the carpet on and tucked some wires.
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    Old school woofer

    You talking about that black stuff around the dust cap that basically glues it to the cone? It's an adhesive like this, Pro-Grade Black Rubberized Speaker Glue
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    How to waterproof MDF speaker rings? Plywood any better?

    Would you have to do any prep work or could you just spray some bed liner right on?
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    New to car audio(not just the website)

    Yeah I have the amp on the seat now. I thought I read somewhere it wasn't good for subs to share a chamber, but looking at a couple build logs on here leads me to believe otherwise. You have any knowledge on this you can explain to me.
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    New to car audio(not just the website)

    Hello everyone, my name is Robert from Houston, TX. Bought my first car, a 2001 civic coupe(EM2), back when I was 19 I think. It came with two 12" subs which I was pretty happy with, they were 8 ohm wired for 4 pushing 300 watts. Recently I had a small flood in my trunk and the amp was just...
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    Amp Shuts off

    So I played with it some more trying to isolate the problem. Turns out with just the left speaker plugged in it kills the amp. Amp works fine with only the right and subs plugged in. Thought I'd give an update for anyone that reads this in the future.
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    Help with box problem

    I tried to stay in your price range, found this with a quick look, Sound Ordnance™ M-1500 Mono subwoofer amplifier — 500 watts RMS x 1 at 2 ohms at Crutchfield.com If you're only powering a sub all you need is a monoblock. This one will give you enough power, 300 watts @ 4 ohm. Of course you...
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    Amp Shuts off

    Alright thanks man. If it makes any difference, yesterday I hooked the speakers back up to the headunit and after about a minute my left speaker stopped working. I check the hu fuse later today.
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    Amp Shuts off

    Hey guys, been lurking on the forums trying to find a solution to my amp turning off. I had my amp gain set at 31.62 with my DMM, but then I set my subwoofer lvl to +5 on the head unit. Had this for about a month and then one day it started turning off on me. Do you think I fried it? Here's what...
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