helotaxi
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Kilroy was Here
A couple systems I distinctly remember seeing in person back in the day...
Friend of mine had a king cab Nissan with 4 Kicker C12s running off a Linear Power 2202IQ. Kicker 3-way front stage running on a 952IQ. You knew when he pulled into the school parking lot because the lockers on the other end of the campus started to rattle.
The other was in a Pathfinder. The entire rear end of the thing was a 6th order bandpass for 4 Orion XTR 15 DVCs. The 4 front chambers vented right along the door pillars. The single rear chamber vented between the seats through a gint triangular vent. Across the front of the enclosure were 6 6.5" MB Quart midbasses and the doors had 3 mids and 3 tweets each. The substage was powered by a 2100HCCA and the mids/highs by a 225HCCA. The suba actually had a good freq response and was really efficient as well. The head installer at the particlar shop was a genius when it came to bandpasses, especially 6th order. He had a pair of Orion 8s in a CRX at the time running off the rear 2 channels of a crappy little Targa 4-ch amp. With that paltry amount of power it would shake the shop and sounded really good with music.
My first setup was in an '88 Escort. Started with the Panasonic HU that we were talking about above. The amp was an Orion Cobalt 230. The front stage was a pair of Orion CS-5 mids and a pair of Orion CS-1s tweets. The sub was a JL 10W1. Nobody ever talked about how loud it was, cause it wasn't even sorta loud, but I got compliments constantly about how clean it sounded.
Friend of mine had a king cab Nissan with 4 Kicker C12s running off a Linear Power 2202IQ. Kicker 3-way front stage running on a 952IQ. You knew when he pulled into the school parking lot because the lockers on the other end of the campus started to rattle.
The other was in a Pathfinder. The entire rear end of the thing was a 6th order bandpass for 4 Orion XTR 15 DVCs. The 4 front chambers vented right along the door pillars. The single rear chamber vented between the seats through a gint triangular vent. Across the front of the enclosure were 6 6.5" MB Quart midbasses and the doors had 3 mids and 3 tweets each. The substage was powered by a 2100HCCA and the mids/highs by a 225HCCA. The suba actually had a good freq response and was really efficient as well. The head installer at the particlar shop was a genius when it came to bandpasses, especially 6th order. He had a pair of Orion 8s in a CRX at the time running off the rear 2 channels of a crappy little Targa 4-ch amp. With that paltry amount of power it would shake the shop and sounded really good with music.
My first setup was in an '88 Escort. Started with the Panasonic HU that we were talking about above. The amp was an Orion Cobalt 230. The front stage was a pair of Orion CS-5 mids and a pair of Orion CS-1s tweets. The sub was a JL 10W1. Nobody ever talked about how loud it was, cause it wasn't even sorta loud, but I got compliments constantly about how clean it sounded.
