Voice your concerns to ssa. I can only give you some advice. I can say this I feel ssa has very fair pricing on thier products and I know they are decent people.
Thanks so much, ill keep everyone informed.
I'm running a singer alternator Tested 289 amps after heat/ 184 amp @ idle, xs power 5100 up front and 3400 in rear, big 3 and positive run all in 0 gauge. I set the gains by ear, with the 3 cubed box they were about half way running the volume on 40 and I wouldn't go past that number. With the 2.5 cubed box they came down to about %25 but I started running my volume up to 60 when I learned the 80prs was clean up that high. I was under the impression that using more clean volume from the source or 80prs was better. I was using the 80prs lpf set at 80hz sometimes lower if the song playing was peaking too high. I left the lpf on the amp all the way open but have also dialed it back some to see if it made much of a difference running two low pass filters. I found running both did cut the higher frequencys some but not to the point of it mattering much I felt like. Subsonic was set to about %20 and anything more really started to cut my lower frequencies drastically. I feel like the zcon was happy in the mid 40's to about the mid 50's and became peaky after 60hz in its current 2.5 cubed enclosure. The 3 cubed enclosure had very similar results but didnt have anywhere near the output I have now. It really lacks below 40hz except for a handful of songs and she just wouldn't pick up the bass in my occasional rock and country listening. Some country songs were ok but I really felt like it was on a roller coaster of being happy.
16" of port area per cubic foot, and if i recall correctly its the same height and width as the 3 cubed box just not as deep.
Yeah she will play the low but no output what so ever, I wanted to go to 3.25 @ like 33hz but ccstang felt the 2.5 @ 32 was right for me but guess its hard to build a box for someone and not knowing what there looking for. The 3 cubed box did dig a lil lower but still lacked the output. I know low and loud takes good electrical and lots of power, that's why I was thinking of getting a bigger amp. But while things were out of the car and I wanted to inspect everything and discovered that uggly surrround and revealed the truth of why there was always a soft spot in it. This zcon never seemed to move much in either enclosure, ive zeen the zcon straight bouncing in some youtube vids.
Would you be willing to let me put a system together for ya? I'll tell you what to get and help you on a box design. I know I can help you out! I've been through the same thing which lead me to building woofers.. lol
