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<blockquote data-quote="slammedincouch" data-source="post: 8150163" data-attributes="member: 620452"><p>I have had a ridiculously terrible past few days with the build. Just bad luck after bad luck after bad luck...</p><p></p><p>so I took a break from beauty panels, finished up deadening the doors and started getting to the door speakers.</p><p></p><p>so first issue of the week- the DD CS 6.5s</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130815_155042_zps6a19d310.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>the xovers I have for the set are only for the tweeters...</p><p></p><p>Run the mids active? NP. I have the perfect amp to pair them with. But the tweets...Only option is to run them off the hu power ("50watts" per channel)</p><p></p><p>So while I'm trying to sleep on thurs night, I decided I wanted to use something else in the doors- something that I have passive xovers for because I don't want to run active without a good active hu (my 80prs is in the maliboom and I need to have the double din in the explorer- it's just too convenient)</p><p></p><p>Wake up on thursday and it was time to get busy on my trunk lid</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130816_153306_zps49c4c0c7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Anybody recognize dat comp se? Yup it's my HSK 165s from way back when. Super pumped to get them installed. I power up the hu, test the side I have everything drilled into and it sounds like it's going to be great! So I go to get the other mid down from the lid to test on the other side and guess what?</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130816_194329_zpsb37f8aa3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/23889972.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I was legit so upset. I have no idea what happened to it. The only thing I can conjure up what happened was that when the xbox was originally installed, it blew the mid. When we put it in, there was no way to control the volume and when it turned out it was ridiculously too loud. This was god knows how long ago- showing you how much I really use that xbox in my trunk. Eventually I put an rca volume knob on it, but it must have gone before then and I just never noticed.</p><p></p><p>I decided there's no use crying over spilled milk and decided I'm going to have to send it in to see how much it's going to cost to get fixed once I have another job.</p><p></p><p>So then I scraped the idea of doing a passive setup and went back to the idea of active mids. I'm to the point of putting the last screw in the mid to the door and BAM, my hand slips, screw driver punctures right through the surround in my brand new cs 6.5 mid. I started yelling and shouting and pretty much throwing a tantrum/kicking myself for allowing it to happen. Mid plays fine, but this it the first time I've EVER been careless enough to puncture a surround. I don't have pcitrues of it, just because I'm trying to forget it happened...</p><p></p><p>So finally, I'm here:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130817_151914_zps434255b9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130817_151802_zpsbb8e2835.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And now I'm just trying to decide what I'm doing. I HAD everything hooked up and working, but I feel like the tweeters are barely audible (they aren't, but I hate the idea of HU power.) I contemplated using the crescendo 1000c4 for the mids on ch 1 and 2 and tweets on ch 3 and 4, but the hpf doesn't go past 1khz...so that's a no. The C1B goes to 5khz, but I feel like the crescendo is just going to waste in the install/I don't really have room for it in the build's amp rack.</p><p></p><p>~~~Expect to see the Crescendo 1000c4 up for sale this week/PM me if you're interested in it~~~</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow I SHOULD just put the tweets back on hu power, but instead, I'm going to grab one of my 2 channel old school amps out of another car and see how it sounds on the tweets. If it sounds good, I'm just a set of rca's and a fuse holder short of powering them.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully good news to follow in the next two days...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slammedincouch, post: 8150163, member: 620452"] I have had a ridiculously terrible past few days with the build. Just bad luck after bad luck after bad luck... so I took a break from beauty panels, finished up deadening the doors and started getting to the door speakers. so first issue of the week- the DD CS 6.5s [IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130815_155042_zps6a19d310.jpg[/IMG] the xovers I have for the set are only for the tweeters... Run the mids active? NP. I have the perfect amp to pair them with. But the tweets...Only option is to run them off the hu power ("50watts" per channel) So while I'm trying to sleep on thurs night, I decided I wanted to use something else in the doors- something that I have passive xovers for because I don't want to run active without a good active hu (my 80prs is in the maliboom and I need to have the double din in the explorer- it's just too convenient) Wake up on thursday and it was time to get busy on my trunk lid [IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130816_153306_zps49c4c0c7.jpg[/IMG] Anybody recognize dat comp se? Yup it's my HSK 165s from way back when. Super pumped to get them installed. I power up the hu, test the side I have everything drilled into and it sounds like it's going to be great! So I go to get the other mid down from the lid to test on the other side and guess what? [IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130816_194329_zpsb37f8aa3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/23889972.jpg[/IMG] I was legit so upset. I have no idea what happened to it. The only thing I can conjure up what happened was that when the xbox was originally installed, it blew the mid. When we put it in, there was no way to control the volume and when it turned out it was ridiculously too loud. This was god knows how long ago- showing you how much I really use that xbox in my trunk. Eventually I put an rca volume knob on it, but it must have gone before then and I just never noticed. I decided there's no use crying over spilled milk and decided I'm going to have to send it in to see how much it's going to cost to get fixed once I have another job. So then I scraped the idea of doing a passive setup and went back to the idea of active mids. I'm to the point of putting the last screw in the mid to the door and BAM, my hand slips, screw driver punctures right through the surround in my brand new cs 6.5 mid. I started yelling and shouting and pretty much throwing a tantrum/kicking myself for allowing it to happen. Mid plays fine, but this it the first time I've EVER been careless enough to puncture a surround. I don't have pcitrues of it, just because I'm trying to forget it happened... So finally, I'm here: [IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130817_151914_zps434255b9.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w283/slammedincouch/20130817_151802_zpsbb8e2835.jpg[/IMG] And now I'm just trying to decide what I'm doing. I HAD everything hooked up and working, but I feel like the tweeters are barely audible (they aren't, but I hate the idea of HU power.) I contemplated using the crescendo 1000c4 for the mids on ch 1 and 2 and tweets on ch 3 and 4, but the hpf doesn't go past 1khz...so that's a no. The C1B goes to 5khz, but I feel like the crescendo is just going to waste in the install/I don't really have room for it in the build's amp rack. ~~~Expect to see the Crescendo 1000c4 up for sale this week/PM me if you're interested in it~~~ Tomorrow I SHOULD just put the tweets back on hu power, but instead, I'm going to grab one of my 2 channel old school amps out of another car and see how it sounds on the tweets. If it sounds good, I'm just a set of rca's and a fuse holder short of powering them. Hopefully good news to follow in the next two days... [/QUOTE]
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