mile098
10+ year member
ohhh noeeeesss
not sure if its a repost or not, but still...
-at the slightest sound of bass you run to try and find out where its coming from.
-you spend more time looking at pictures of subs than you do **** =)
-you are saving change because someday you'll be able to buy an amp with it.
-you buy a perfectly good van/car/suv only to turn it into a 2seater.
-your system weighs almost as much as your car
-you play your system in the driveway and run inside to see whats falling off the walls.
-you have 6 or more subs laying around that are not in use, nor will ever see power.
-when people talk it sounds like charley brown "wuh wuh wuh"
-you laugh when your mirrors fall off
-you laugh when people say "i can't breath in this thing! turn it down!"
-you find it interesting how bass can make your eyes roll around in your head.
-"what" is the most used word in your vocabulary
-you've plugged 4 or more perfectly good subs into the wall because its loud.. hehe
-you've attemped to sell anything and everything you own to buy more equipment.
-you'd rather buy a cheaper car, so you'll hvae more money for a system.
-have 1/0 or bigger wire in your car AND have a use for it.
-ever considered buying huge quantities of subs just to see what it might do.
-lowered a car with concrete
-Extreme class....says enough.
-wanted to see if you could fit a whale in your trunk for those low lows.
-your full attention is given to passing trains because of the bass they produce
-same applies to helicopters
-you go through bass withdrawls
-you beg friends w/ systems to drive b/c you can't afford one. lol. (common angst!!)
-you have a dedicated "system fund"
-When you are willing to sacrifice hundreds of dollars worth of equipment by maxxing
everything out to get yourself an extra 1/10th of a dB to take home a first place trophy.
-When you think the smell of voice coils burning up is cool.
-If you've actually been pissed off at yourself for days for cutting your box .05^ft3 smaller than what you wanted it at.
-If you have a large ported box with a large port.
-If you insist on using 8 gauge power wire or 10 gauge speaker wire for your subs.
-If you think that the only mirror you actually need to see out of is your drivers side.
-If you've ever tossed out a spare tire to glass the tire well for extra airspace.
-You think the biggest rivalry since the Crips and Bloods is SQ guys and SPL guys.
-You have a "cop switch" on your amps.
-You would miss your wifes b-day to drive 200 miles to an SPL competition.
-You know who Alma Gates is, and not just heard of her.
-You could give a crap how your SQ is.
-when you think people driving by at 2am bumping is soothing to your sleep
-when you listen to bass songs with headphones on your computer
-when you attempt to build an abc box =)
-when you start doing school papers on "what bass is", "sound ordinances", and "did you hear a boom?"
-if you've ever wondered if it were possible to turn the SETI dish into a subwoofer
-you try to find the resonant frequency of earth, and try to shake it =)
-1 in 2 stories you tell consists in some way of car audio
-you have a huge ported box sitting in your garage tuned to 60hz, for special occasions
-you have a huge ported box sitting in your car tuned to 33hz, for "special" occasions
-you have more subwoofers than fingers
-anything less than 1kwatt per sub is "funny" or "pointless"
-your daily driver exceeds 150db with music
-you've ever farted in the sub opening of a box and wondered if it could be tuned. (lol. yes it does work)
-you enjoy the smell of silicone or resin
-you can strip 1/0 wire with your teeth
-you've driven past your own house 3 times because this new song's "got bass!"
-you've ever been up past 3am putting a system together (yes this includes testing. lol)
-your cars carpeting looks like swiss cheese
-you have enough wire sitting in boxes to install 3more systems
-you have more than 3 spl comp shirts
-you know how to recone subs, and do this to your own regularly =)
-your system budget exceeds your annual income
-you've given your 2yr old child a 15" 50lb sub for xmas
-you've ever tried to combine the baskets and magnets of 2 subs to make one better one.
-you have 3sets of test tones on computer and/or on cd
-you think "feel the bass" and "40cycles" are actual music.
-If you spend more time at the local stereo shop than you do at work.
-If you put off studying for finals to build a new enclosure.
-If you think hearing aids are going to be an excellent investment in 5-10 years.
-You complain because 145dB with one 12 isn't enough.
-You drive to a parklot, park towards the back and beat the hell outta your system, just for the hell of it.
-You've had the cops called to house more than twice in one week.
-You get pissed because none of your friends understand your obsession.
-If you've told a cop: "I didn't have my system turned up ENOUGH to be heard from
100ft"....by the way, it didn't work
-You've blown every home audio subwoofer you have by putting it in your car to see how loud it is.
-If you've found an old box makes a nice coffee table.
-Your new box design bothers you more than anything else.
"Car Audio, my Anti-Drug"...lol, we're to broke to buy drugs.
-You constanly get girls to get on your trunk to see if they can get off.
-you've tried to make pop cans explode using just bass
-your eyes know how to adjust to blurred mirror vision
-you are so used to breathing in a 150db environment that you have a hard time breathing outside your car.
-you went out and tried the baloon trick 30seconds after you read the post.
-you want to grow a mullet just so your hair can get fluffed by the "Beast"
-you spend more time on termpro than you do at work.. (uhoh)
-you go to best buy just because you don't have to pay to abuse that equipment
-you go to best buy just to mess with the heads of the really smart people that work there. (note my sarcasm)
-you want to make earmuffs shaped like subs.
-you've ever turned an entire room in your house into an enclosure
-you have a need for wide angle mirrors =)
-you spend as much time as i do thinking of stupid things like this
-you wake up in the middle of the night with ideas of an enclosure
-your child's middle name is Vega or something car audio related
-as a child you took apart your parents home audio speakers. (so they had to replace a few sets since i was 8)
-your system weighs more than your car
-when "the usual" at home depot is ten sheets of MDF
-when you buy 7/64" drill bits by the dozen and liquid nails by the gallon
-you own/drive a mini-van and you dont have kids
-you keep earmuffs and earplugs inside your glove compartment
-your cars electrical system can start a bus or tractor
-the only math you use is how to figure out impedances and box/port dimensions
-your post count on termpro is way higher than you know it should be
-You have an autographed picture of Wayne Harris in your wallet.
-You turn up your system and walk away from your vehicle just to see how loud it really is!
-People pull over for you at night because your headlights flash like a patrol car.
-Noise ordinance violations are a weekend ritual.
-You have a front row seat at db Drag Racing.
-Your EQ setting looks like a flock of geese.
-First name Alma ...Last name Gates!
-Your dream car is an astro Van!
-Alternator whine ... who cares!!
-u stick ur head into a slot port at full blast just to wind up pulling ur head out and saying "CoOOooOL!!!" and it doesnt phase u
-u dont care how bad ur car rattles (maybe cuz u cant hear it on the inside
-u buy power wire in spools
-uve blown more subs then miles u have on ur 20 year old van
-rms means the "minum power handleing"
-u have actually felt a sub smack u in the head at 20mm of xmax
-instead of buying oil for ur cars oil change u buy something like rca wires or carpeting just cuz u have the money
-u have blown more fuses then u could count
-u have dreams about 6 beasts in a giant 60 cubic foot wall (droooooool!)
- u have actually "borrowed" subs then blowwn them oooops!
-You can knock stuff off of shelves with 1 sub
-You can blow a house circuit with 1 amp & 1 sub
-at the slightest sound of bass you run to try and find out where its coming from.
-you spend more time looking at pictures of subs than you do **** =)
-you are saving change because someday you'll be able to buy an amp with it.
-you buy a perfectly good van/car/suv only to turn it into a 2seater.
-your system weighs almost as much as your car
-you play your system in the driveway and run inside to see whats falling off the walls.
-you have 6 or more subs laying around that are not in use, nor will ever see power.
-when people talk it sounds like charley brown "wuh wuh wuh"
-you laugh when your mirrors fall off
-you laugh when people say "i can't breath in this thing! turn it down!"
-you find it interesting how bass can make your eyes roll around in your head.
-"what" is the most used word in your vocabulary
-you've plugged 4 or more perfectly good subs into the wall because its loud.. hehe
-you've attemped to sell anything and everything you own to buy more equipment.
-you'd rather buy a cheaper car, so you'll hvae more money for a system.
-have 1/0 or bigger wire in your car AND have a use for it.
-ever considered buying huge quantities of subs just to see what it might do.
-lowered a car with concrete
-Extreme class....says enough.
-wanted to see if you could fit a whale in your trunk for those low lows.
-your full attention is given to passing trains because of the bass they produce
-same applies to helicopters
-you go through bass withdrawls
-you beg friends w/ systems to drive b/c you can't afford one. lol. (common angst!!)
-you have a dedicated "system fund"
-When you are willing to sacrifice hundreds of dollars worth of equipment by maxxing
everything out to get yourself an extra 1/10th of a dB to take home a first place trophy.
-When you think the smell of voice coils burning up is cool.
-If you've actually been pissed off at yourself for days for cutting your box .05^ft3 smaller than what you wanted it at.
-If you have a large ported box with a large port.
-If you insist on using 8 gauge power wire or 10 gauge speaker wire for your subs.
-If you think that the only mirror you actually need to see out of is your drivers side.
-If you've ever tossed out a spare tire to glass the tire well for extra airspace.
-You think the biggest rivalry since the Crips and Bloods is SQ guys and SPL guys.
-You have a "cop switch" on your amps.
-You would miss your wifes b-day to drive 200 miles to an SPL competition.
-You know who Alma Gates is, and not just heard of her.
-You could give a crap how your SQ is.
-when you think people driving by at 2am bumping is soothing to your sleep
-when you listen to bass songs with headphones on your computer
-when you attempt to build an abc box =)
-when you start doing school papers on "what bass is", "sound ordinances", and "did you hear a boom?"
-if you've ever wondered if it were possible to turn the SETI dish into a subwoofer
-you try to find the resonant frequency of earth, and try to shake it =)
-1 in 2 stories you tell consists in some way of car audio
-you have a huge ported box sitting in your garage tuned to 60hz, for special occasions
-you have a huge ported box sitting in your car tuned to 33hz, for "special" occasions
-you have more subwoofers than fingers
-anything less than 1kwatt per sub is "funny" or "pointless"
-your daily driver exceeds 150db with music
-you've ever farted in the sub opening of a box and wondered if it could be tuned. (lol. yes it does work)
-you enjoy the smell of silicone or resin
-you can strip 1/0 wire with your teeth
-you've driven past your own house 3 times because this new song's "got bass!"
-you've ever been up past 3am putting a system together (yes this includes testing. lol)
-your cars carpeting looks like swiss cheese
-you have enough wire sitting in boxes to install 3more systems
-you have more than 3 spl comp shirts
-you know how to recone subs, and do this to your own regularly =)
-your system budget exceeds your annual income
-you've given your 2yr old child a 15" 50lb sub for xmas
-you've ever tried to combine the baskets and magnets of 2 subs to make one better one.
-you have 3sets of test tones on computer and/or on cd
-you think "feel the bass" and "40cycles" are actual music.
-If you spend more time at the local stereo shop than you do at work.
-If you put off studying for finals to build a new enclosure.
-If you think hearing aids are going to be an excellent investment in 5-10 years.
-You complain because 145dB with one 12 isn't enough.
-You drive to a parklot, park towards the back and beat the hell outta your system, just for the hell of it.
-You've had the cops called to house more than twice in one week.
-You get pissed because none of your friends understand your obsession.
-If you've told a cop: "I didn't have my system turned up ENOUGH to be heard from
100ft"....by the way, it didn't work
-You've blown every home audio subwoofer you have by putting it in your car to see how loud it is.
-If you've found an old box makes a nice coffee table.
-Your new box design bothers you more than anything else.
"Car Audio, my Anti-Drug"...lol, we're to broke to buy drugs.
-You constanly get girls to get on your trunk to see if they can get off.
-you've tried to make pop cans explode using just bass
-your eyes know how to adjust to blurred mirror vision
-you are so used to breathing in a 150db environment that you have a hard time breathing outside your car.
-you went out and tried the baloon trick 30seconds after you read the post.
-you want to grow a mullet just so your hair can get fluffed by the "Beast"
-you spend more time on termpro than you do at work.. (uhoh)
-you go to best buy just because you don't have to pay to abuse that equipment
-you go to best buy just to mess with the heads of the really smart people that work there. (note my sarcasm)
-you want to make earmuffs shaped like subs.
-you've ever turned an entire room in your house into an enclosure
-you have a need for wide angle mirrors =)
-you spend as much time as i do thinking of stupid things like this
-you wake up in the middle of the night with ideas of an enclosure
-your child's middle name is Vega or something car audio related
-as a child you took apart your parents home audio speakers. (so they had to replace a few sets since i was 8)
-your system weighs more than your car
-when "the usual" at home depot is ten sheets of MDF
-when you buy 7/64" drill bits by the dozen and liquid nails by the gallon
-you own/drive a mini-van and you dont have kids
-you keep earmuffs and earplugs inside your glove compartment
-your cars electrical system can start a bus or tractor
-the only math you use is how to figure out impedances and box/port dimensions
-your post count on termpro is way higher than you know it should be
-You have an autographed picture of Wayne Harris in your wallet.
-You turn up your system and walk away from your vehicle just to see how loud it really is!
-People pull over for you at night because your headlights flash like a patrol car.
-Noise ordinance violations are a weekend ritual.
-You have a front row seat at db Drag Racing.
-Your EQ setting looks like a flock of geese.
-First name Alma ...Last name Gates!
-Your dream car is an astro Van!
-Alternator whine ... who cares!!
-u stick ur head into a slot port at full blast just to wind up pulling ur head out and saying "CoOOooOL!!!" and it doesnt phase u
-u dont care how bad ur car rattles (maybe cuz u cant hear it on the inside
-u buy power wire in spools
-uve blown more subs then miles u have on ur 20 year old van
-rms means the "minum power handleing"
-u have actually felt a sub smack u in the head at 20mm of xmax
-instead of buying oil for ur cars oil change u buy something like rca wires or carpeting just cuz u have the money
-u have blown more fuses then u could count
-u have dreams about 6 beasts in a giant 60 cubic foot wall (droooooool!)
- u have actually "borrowed" subs then blowwn them oooops!
-You can knock stuff off of shelves with 1 sub
-You can blow a house circuit with 1 amp & 1 sub
