cornholio135

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My lil bro has an 05 BB GT. He installed his 12" Sony woofers and 1200w amp. Built the cabinets himself . Turned out pretty nice..

PS. yeah I know the carpet is not a match but still looks good... Also his Racing Stripes look bad @$$...

dshiznit1489

Clean set up. That's a lot of woofer for this car! I got tired of my old 12" Type-R REAL FAST.

Socket7

Looks nice. Has he done anything else to the sound system to get it balanced with that beast of a setup?

TheBurkeMan

i hate sony xplod
anything that you can buy at wal-mart just seems cheap to me.

it does look nice though

13bturbofc

don't be so closed minded man, granted sony doesn't make top notch car audio equipment but for the price its a bargain. and there setups don't sound to bad. i was happy with my old xplod 12's and 750 watt amp.

TheBurkeMan

sony 12" $109
Kicker 12" $129
Rockford Fosgate $120

Kicker and Rockford Fosgate are both better companies and barely cost more, granted they do make some expensive stuff they still make cheap stuff that is better quality than xplod

and i've owned Kicker and i would never buy anything else now...

firebirdude

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12" Kicker Comps are $99 AND buy-one-get-one at Circuit City. Two quality subs for 100 bucks. Can't beat that.

Why he would go through all that work and then not match the carpet makes zero sense. Must have been on purpose, trying to match those racing stripes. Secondly, that is nearly the exact same design as the Zen box. Why not spend the $125 on the Zen box versus $50 and hours and hours of your time while hoping everything will turn out well?

TheBurkeMan

yeah i forgot about the buy one get one sales at circuit city, my friend got some memphis audios real cheap there.

if you look around you can get stuff real cheap, i got a made by kicker box for $10 (yes that's ten) a kicker solo-baric L7 sub ($550) for $300, and 750.1 Kicker Mono Amp about ($500) for $350 all on ebay. (all was in my 1993 nissan altima)

but i agree about the hard work, yeah you feel good about it in the end, but usually it's not worth it when you can find stuff that's already made real cheap.

Socket7

Wait a second, are those sealed enclosures, ported, or just free air? I can see the center pass through in the middle there.

TheBurkeMan

running xplod's free air is definately a mistake

firebirdude

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hmmm... now that you mention it.... I can't see the sides of the "boxes." Don't tell me he just has a front baffle an inch around each sub....

BurkeMan, you friend is mistaken. Circuit City has never once at any time carried Memphis Audio equipment.

MyNam3IsM33TBALL

one fully powered Alpine Type-R 10" was rediculously loud...i keep it at -6 bass for normal listening and most of my passengers still can't handle it!!!!

TheBurkeMan

firebirdude you're right it was Electronic Express... my bad
either way he still got a good deal

TheBurkeMan

MyNam... i had to do the same thing when i had my kicker L7 passengers would always complain about it being to loud and i would have to turn down the bass.

MyNam3IsM33TBALL

LOL i the bass is all the way down!!!! It's because i have it in a vented enclosure..so it hits hard but longggg

canaryrx8

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I'd much rather build my than buy store bought any day, most store bought ones don't use quality materials, at least if you build it yourself you know exactly what you get, even if it is more of a pain I've found the custom enclosures typically sound better. I'm not a fan of the xplod stuff either, but that's one of the cleaner looking installs I've seen with them, most of the time I see wires everywhere and other misc hideousness so nice job on keeping it tidy.

Socket7

I don't think you could have a side on those boxes and not have it be visible to the camera.

TheBurkeMan

if you buy a good quality product you know you're getting quality. sometimes the company can make it better than you can.

and as far as building your own custom box, unless you're using fiberglass or something you're really not making it that "custom"

throwing some wood togther in the shape of a square really isn't making something that custom.

firebirdude

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Burke is correct. If the box specifies 3/4" MDF and guaranteed air tight construction.... you think you're going to get any different results by lugging a sheet of 3/4" MDF home from Lowes?

Socket, I think you're right.

TheBurkeMan

also some companies make boxes that go specificially with the subs to make them perform at there best.

if you make your own box you may get the demensions wrong, and the sub will sound bad

Socket7

I love my 4080 box. It's got a cheap Rockford Fosgate sub and I still get wonderful bass that's tigher then a 18 year old virgin

altspace

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Looks clean. My only concern is the big white rally stripes on the outside. Any pics of that?

Blackout04RX

looks good, clean build quality. i do have to say that sony is such a waste for that kind of effort. I asked for ideas from a couple of competition guys, and they sent me to some very high quality smaller companies, which tend to be lower priced. Blew my mind what I ended up with, I never thought it would sound as good, and everything installed, I paid less than 700. course I install myself, so that prolly made a diff