Recent content by jhall1jax

Lots of good info in this thread; thanks for catching me up. Yes, hispls, I immediately noticed the sealed vs ported box thing. Back in the 80's, I seem to remember everyone used sealed (I used a passive radiator setup but I was looked down upon - hah). Now sealed setups seem rare. I initially...

Kushy - good info, thanks. Yeah, I noticed that cost difference right away!! Too bad about thr big brands getting gutted. The development that took me most by surprise are the shallow-mount subs. My other car is an 09 M3 convertible. Not much space in that trunk, so if I get bitten by the audio...

The shop only carries Pioneer, Kenwood and Memphis subs.

Wow, I didn't realize how much consolidation is going on. I guess it makes sense from a business standpoint. Good to see Quart and PPI is still around. I guess a/d/s is in there with them somewhere. Im sure I'll have questions during my install. By the way I ended up with Infinity 60.9cs...

I'll take it back to show the manager what was done, but anyone who doesn't even grommet the firewall passthru I wouldn't trust to do even the simplest stuff. I think I'll just do it myself. That way I know it's done right.

I was into car audio heavily back in the mid- to late-80's. I still remember swapping out my Nakamichi tape deck for a new Alpine CD unit, and using PPI Art amps. I've been out of the loop since then - wow have things changed. I recently inherited a 95 Grand Cherokee and thought it'd be great...