Recent content by LoneRanger

If I could make everyone in the car audio community understand one concept it would be that subwoofers and amps are the least important part of any install. Worry about your enclosure first. If your enclosure sucks, no sub or amp in the world will make it sound good. Secondly, your vehicle...

Subwoofers are only glorified air pumps. The box, children, is where those numbers come from

Any money that doesnt go toward the amp can go toward the sub. I ONLY NEED 400W (you wouldn't believe how efficient a sub in a six foot ported box can be coupled with the cabin gain of a two seater hatch). However, I do want something reliable that I can use for years to come. One thing I...

Its been a while since i thought about car audio, much less posted about it. The last post I made, I had just acquired a 1991 CRX si. Its a great little car: fun to drive, fast as hell and anytime a group of drunks needs a ride home from the bar, I simply say "sorry guys, I've only got a...

I really do know everything about car audio.....no kidding....just ask anyone :P

For those of you who've been on this forum for a while and remember me, it's great to finally have something worthwhile to share with you. In september of last year, Gnome Audio closed its doors. It wasn't because business was bad or because I moved on to bigger and better things. I was simply...

as long as i can get a day off, i'm in

email me or hit me on AIM and i'll send you some plans i tried to upload them here but there's no way to squeeze them down to 400x400

"Bass Cannons" have been around for ages. There is no output gain from this design....looks cool tho!

really bad allergy-related headcold. i usually get them twice a year: once in the spring and once in the fall. it's one of those headcolds where your eyes feel like they're bulging out of your head and it even makes my ears "pop" all the time.

yup...two years later and i'm still legally blind in my right eye. if it makes any of you guys sleep any better, i hardly notice it anymore. the strange thing about single eye injuries is that the healthy eye will normally become stronger to compensate for the loss of vision in the other one...

Alternator whine is a sure sign of a bad ground. If you haven't already, try making the ground wire as thick and short as possible and make sure you scrape the surface to which your equipment is grounded down to the bare metal. Overheating issues can be another sign of insufficient ground, but...

To all those concerned, Alex aka BiaBia does in fact work for me. He's an awesome builder and I contract him to build enclosures for me whenever the order volume becomes a little too much for me and my local staff to handle. However he also does enclosures on his own that are not Gnome Audio...

I've recently been told that someone has been using the Gnome Audio name without permission to solicit business. This deeply disturbs me that someone would try to use the name of my business to rip people off. If you didn't send your money via paypal to donnballenger@gnomeaudio.com or via...

You can't just assume how much it will need. I said "assume" because i was creating a hypothetical situation. The area of the port in relation to the driver's sd is just as realevent to output (read as SPL) as the tuning frequency. More port area = more output. The more surface area the port...