Car audio in my room..

[pieper88 10+ year member]

What are you grounding your amp to?

 

[Stephen_c 10+ year member]

Bash amps!
I need to get me one of those!

Parts Express

buy mine, its a 300

 

[NoPh33rRaCiNg 10+ year member]

What are you grounding your amp to?

the power supply thats providing the juice

 

[fatboyracing 10+ year member]

what r those painted with the paint looks thick

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

What are you grounding your amp to?

the ground

 

[netzero 10+ year member]

what r those painted with the paint looks thick

Two coats of killz laytex primer, sanded in between, and the paint is Valsper gloss gray. nothing fancy, just two even coats. When i make legs for them, i might pick up another can of paint and sand these a little with light grain and put two more coats on.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

heres my comp set up in my room.. velodyne plate amp with caraudio kenwood 10" 160rms.. pioneer reciever and klh speakers.. sounds decent

 

[netzero 10+ year member]

heres my comp set up in my room.. velodyne plate amp with caraudio kenwood 10" 160rms.. pioneer reciever and klh speakers.. sounds decent

nice! how much to the speakers?

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

Hmmm. Might have to play with this. I need to get my buddy to sell me his Avalanche 18 though.

 

[chase007 10+ year member]

$3000 worth of power supplies

Lol no, Go on new egg get 2 cosair 700watt psu's there 70amp psu's and wire them togather, should be enough,,will cost you 90$ a psu...

 

[netzero 10+ year member]

Lol no, Go on new egg get 2 cosair 700watt psu's there 70amp psu's and wire them togather, should be enough,,will cost you 90$ a psu...

70 amps is a lot of power for indoors lol. I'm running about 60 to each side, and its loud enough, and thats online like 10 amps max @ 12v. one of those and a little batt would be plenty for some in home fun.

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

For $90 you can buy a decent plate amp, with crossover, auto power on, wireless remote, fuse and 120V plug already wired in. No fires.

The cabinets look nice, but for the effort you put into it, you could have dropped a couple of cheap woofers, one cheap tweeter build/buy a simple crossover and you would have much better sound.

I understand why people try to convert car audio lying around to home use, but it is always better to just sell the gear and get HT stuff. You'll get much better bang for your buck.

 

[netzero 10+ year member]

My favorite "bang for the buck" is free. I spent $3.88 at walmart for spades, and ~$7 for paint. the rest was laying around the house, including amp and psu's. It may not sound "as good" as mids and tweets, but with the subs im getting, it will sound better then anything else iv had in my room.

$90 plate amp that does 80rms x 2 ?

 

[DidUHearThat? 10+ year member]

Like I already said. If you had sold that gear you would have money to buy HT gear. For the effort you put into those cabinets you could have much better sound for the same money.

Quick search:

$99 100watt x 2 reciever, with remote, AM/FM and switching

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882177004

$150 300watt sub plate amp

http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/searchResults.cfm?srchExt=CAT&srchCat=505&CFID=2872915&CFTOKEN=45697549

$7 Tweeters

http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1497

$13 woofers (shielded)

http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1644

Or complete speaker kit with crossovers ($59)

http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35_428&products_id=8525

 

[netzero 10+ year member]

Thats some good stuff, thanks man, I see your point. Either way works, it was just easier to start this way, and I have the amps i need to run the system. I look at it this way, i can always use this gear in a small car as well.

But honestly, how good do you think it would sound with that woofer and $7 tweeter? Could you run two woofers and two tweeters?

The RE 6.5" coax i have, they sound really nice for the price i paid for them, and this is just going to be in my room, in a dorm lol...