Recent content by Photonfanatic

Well just the known brands with bad reputations that are well earned. As for shops I guess we can skip that one since you are not in the DFW area. Although I will say that if I could somehow use them all, my guess would be that I could count on two hands the number that I'd go back to in the...

What brands would you advise avoiding? What shops? I'm in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

That's all fine and well, but maybe you're the one who doesn't get it. After all, you are the only one telling me this, when I've got 10 others telling me that. Maybe a few more but still proportionately. It occurs to me that just like the reason you submitted, you are a shop and you do have...

I understand what you're saying and all, but that's just not my experience. I had a higher end kenwood headunit die 5 days out of warranty, and a kenwood monoblock amp for my subs die about a year out of warranty. I may be new but I everything was set up right on both. No overheating, proper...

I've been reading up, and have called a few local Dallas/Fort worth shops. A few of them have said they're going to stop selling the prime amps due to failures being too common. Honestly I don't feel like I can trust them anymore. Maybe I'd get a good one, but I really don't feel like installing...

An update: WoofersEtc sent me an RMA number since its still under the 1 year warranty. Guess there is no point in opening it up and taking a look at those RC ports now. I think I'm going to ebay the Rockford prime that they send me, and get a Zapco. Higher quality made in the USA baby! Instead...

Thanks for all the help and replies everyone. I really do appreciate it. I will take the amp apart and look at the solder connections when I get a chance. However, in the event that I can not find anything apparent to fix, what is a good amp that I can buy used to replace that one? Its a 300...

To be clear the shop is the one that killed the amp, since they are the ones that zip tied the all the RC cables at the input port. I had no idea what they were doing back there, they simply took the car around to the bay and did their work. It wasn't until I was fed up that I started looking...

I ordered all my gear online cause it was much cheaper that way. One of the components of my system was my of course my amp. I got a Rockford Fosgate prime 300 watt amp, 4-channel. So I take my whole system in all the boxes the stuff came in, to a car audio shop that looked legit, at least from...

How does the wise man keep his speaker from getting poked out of his grocery getter SUV? lol What reason is there that I shouldn't do it? Also, can't change the box I had it custom built and I'm no box builder.

Stand offs hmm... never heard of 'em. I'll look into 'em.

here is the message you get when you try sundown's website: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. FAIL lol

Hi all. I seem to be having some trouble finding a speaker grille for my 8" sundown audio SA-8. When I search for one, all I can find is endless versions of stuff like this: Amazon.com: 8-Inch 2-Piece Steel Mesh Speaker Grill - Black: Electronics But nothing made for the amount of excursion...

Please forgive my noob ignorance. But "full pre-out voltage" is what anyone would want to run right? Sounds like you'd have to have full preout voltage in order to even be able to use your sub. Amirite?

Well I got it all in there. Sounds darn good for an 8", I must say. Bout like I wanted. However, some people told me to leave any settings that up the bass, set to "Off". Well, I did leave the bass boost on the amp off. However, if I don't turn up the "Subwoofer" setting on my alpine CDA-9886...