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[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

people who make judgements upon listening to speakers on a board and going by that have no idea about acoustics or much detail about installation. that "listening" board means about as much as the card board box the speakers come in after you are done installing them. when i competed i lost to 3 quart cars total during the year (more at finals but that was user error lol) everyone very lively which is cool for about 5 min but what would i know i only had 4 sets of quarts from 91-94 then i grew up and got horns

 

[MTXTANT 10+ year member]

Horns are harder to tame than a titanium tweeter is. I've heard all kinds of horror stories about horn tweeters. I'm not saying they can't be good sounding, just that they are supposed to be tough to tweek. Which is exactly my point about Quarts. Yes I listened to Adire's 6.1 comps on a board but that is also where I listened to the Quarts. I couldn't install them in my car before I bought them. Therefore in the board was all I had to go on and I preferred the sound of Quarts over the Kodas. I don't mean anything against any certain brand or any certain person (esp wonderbread) I didn' t direct any hostility in his direction but he didn't seem to have a problem calling me a liar. I just want to give my opinion without someone crawling up my *** about it.

Why even have these forums here if you're going to have a select few people go out of there way to scold someone who gives an opinion they don't like. I have no problem with being wrong. That is how we learn by hearing from people that know more than we do. But we shouldn't ever come off with an attitude every time we hear something we don't like. There, I've said whats on my mind and would like to move on to other threads.

-peace

Tim

 

[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

honrs are mounted under teh dash (above your knees)

i still find it hard to believe that you heard koda's in a board at a non-dealer... it just doesn't make sense to me....

for a dealer list for adire, click here - http://www.adireaudio.com/dealers/dealers.htm

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

horns are far easier than regular speakers to set up bar none. and instalation and set up is a far better tool to judge by

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

as far as detail goes they smoke any regular speaker i ever heard tonally i like them alot as well. some dont but they dont see whats going on imo. alot of sq world champs use horns

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

horns would keep up very easy with subs they are alot easier to drive than regular speakers very sensitive

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

Originally posted by MTXTANT I never said they were dealing, they just order them like a regular customer would.

 

-peace

That is just unfathomly foolish - and doubles the cost in the process... I begin to question this shops intentions in the first place if they are so afraid to contact Adire to arrange to be a dealer.

 

[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by jlaine That is just unfathomly foolish - and doubles the cost in the process... I begin to question this shops intentions in the first place if they are so afraid to contact Adire to arrange to be a dealer.

oh no,.... apparently they aren't dealing them... just buying them as a customer, putting them up in their soundboard and telling people that they can't buy them there....

I think it makes perfect sense, don't you?

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

Originally posted by audiolife as far as detail goes they smoke any regular speaker i ever heard tonally i like them alot as well. some dont but they dont see whats going on imo. alot of sq world champs use horns

Almost everyone I know last year in IASCA running horns got tromped... No - in fact -everyone I knew running horns got tromped.

As much as audiolife would like to try and portray it as simple, the blunt reality is setup is not as point blank as he'd like it to be, and a high soundstage is much harder to accomplish than with a much smaller dome tweeter that is more friendly to position.

He also failed to mention the lower range bandwidth is extremely limited, you still have to find a midwoofer that will blend into the system properly (which is where a good 80% of vehicles suffer is in the midbass region, NOT the upper region) - all of this makes them much harder to properly tune than a already designed component system.

shrinkydinx - I don't know of any on a board (shop), it may be eaiser to ask around the forums to try and find someone that is running a set.

 

[DanWiggins 10+ year member]

Originally posted by jlaine Adire IS the warehouse. They do not sell to any shop unauthorized - bar none.

Josh is correct. We're the US distributor for all our products; for other countries, the listed dealer would also serve as the distributor/representative. But in the US, it's direct with us only.

If you have a dealer who is interested in carrying our equipment, please have them contact Chris Brunhaver ( cbrunhaver@adireaudio.com ) about applying to be a dealer.

Dan Wiggins

Adire Audio

 

[MTXTANT 10+ year member]

You guys really should get a life. I'm through.

-peace out

 

[MTXTANT 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Wonderbread oh no,.... apparently they aren't dealing them... just buying them as a customer, putting them up in their soundboard and telling people that they can't buy them there....

 

I think it makes perfect sense, don't you?

They aren't telling anyone they can't buy them there. I just found out today that those were actually a used set somone traded in for store credit. Which is perfectly legal by the way.

-peace

 

[brad.farmer 10+ year member]

what series do you have? It might be something wrong with your stereo. Because the ones I have listened to, kick any competition out of the way, without any ands, ifs, or buts!!! Maybe you had the treble up to high. That would explain the harshness, of the high frequency detail, in your car.

brad.farmer

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by brad.farmer what series do you have? It might be something wrong with your stereo. Because the ones I have listened to, kick any competition out of the way, without any ands, ifs, or buts!!! Maybe you had the treble up to high. That would explain the harshness, of the high frequency detail, in your car.

 

brad.farmer

What in the hell are you talking about?
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[Wonderbread 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by snova031 What in the hell are you talking about?

 

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no no! say YES to crack brad... more fun for me!