Us Amps Vlx 400

ya it's for a car, i've had infinity reference subs in this same box before and they sounded great. Cerwin vega recommends 2.5 cubic feet @ 35hz so i guess i'll go with that.

STROKER 12
2.5 cu.ft. 20 sq.in. 17" 35 hz

 

burned cds can fry your amp!

I found out why my sub sounds real tight and no bottom end..It's my cd's that i ripped, even though they are all converted to 320kbs, most of them have no bottom end. I'm wondering why i have to keep turning up the bass on my eq and the sub gain all the way up. It has to be the encoder programs i'm using. Pretty sure it's itunes which i used for most of them lately which is giving crappy recordings. i went through my cds today and one of them really hits deep and low and i have to bring all the bass down again. Going to start using windows media player again and see if it's the better one. Maybe i'll try dbpoweramp again too. Probably helped pushing the old orion over the edge too lol, sending a dirty signal to it trying to get good bass from crappy mp3 recordings.

 

Well, I'm only running 160 watts or so to it, my backup amp lol, you beleive it's doing 1 ohm haha.but my sub gain is at like -4 and my bass on my eq is down below half now, lots of room and it rattles my rear view mirror pretty good. What a difference, i couldn't understand what the hell was happening lol. It is itunes making the crap recordings, just checked the id tags. My next cd will be with dbpoweramp.
My power steering pump is leaking pretty good, i have no steering and i'm tired of refilling it lol. Will try and get that fixed tommorow then i have some 0 guage to use up maybe this weekend. Probably won't get my hifonics until monday or tuesday.

 

You need a high end system to tell haha hehe

 

Seriously though it's like night and day, i have like 6 cds all sound the same no bottom end, all done with itunes and then 1 cd pounds and i have to turn all the bass down. I'm going to go back to 20 songs on a cd screw it. Burn them as wave from now on. It's easier on the system.

 

I have the one cd in my car now, will see what it was ripped with, but i'm just going to go back to letting nero convert it back to wave files and have 20 or so songs on a cd. No need to put any extra stress on my system by having to turn up bass to make up for what's missing. This systems gonna last and pound like never before!!!! lol or else total destruction will be imminent!!

ccullen you should be able to install plugins through winamps menu at the top, under file i think or properties.

 

ya that's true too, well all are 128kbs to start but have gotten that way by different encoders so there will be differences. But converting back to wave files will get the best possible results back. The quality is like 1400-1600 kbs almost cd quality. I will get 20 or so songs instead of 70 on a cd.

 

My rack and pinion is leaking big time was quoted $500.00 to fix it haha, it just keeps getting better with me!! I try to get ahead and i get kicked down to the bottom again.lol grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr