Very bad news with ambiguously beneficial results

[Civic96]

About a week ago I was listening to some Eminem beats when I realized that for some ungodly reason my bass was sounding a lot cleaner. I didnt make anything of it at the time and just proceeded to listen to my clearer sound system for about a week. Today at work I go to open my trunk to see if my box is in place to see that one subwoofer is not moving, aka dead. I fiddle around with the wires to try to bring it back to life but I did made any difference. I dont think I even had these subs for a year and already one has taken a dive down under. I dont know why I bought these when I could have just as easily bought a pair of Xplods that would have yielded me the same results for a fraction of the price.

The strange thing is that with the second sub dead the sound is cleaner and by no means any quiter than before. That is percisely why I never took the time to look in my trunk earlier. I thought I heard one of the subs crackling once in a while from the start but I thought it was my trunk and not the actual subwoofer. This could mean one of two things, both of which point to the fact that I was shafted from the start . Either A, The subwoofeer was ****ed up at the factory or B, the ****ing UPS mother ****ing assholes I hope you die dirtbags did the damage. I say this because I saw the box was a little bruised when I got it, like every other piece of parcel I get shipped by these retards.

Mike, what am I to do? Can I send this piece of crap back to the factory? Does the warranty cover this?

Help guys!

[The_Ancient]

well first we need to find out what is wrong with it,

send me your full name (sorry I dont remember it ) and address so I can look up the invoice and where I bought it from (which distributor) and then I can go from there

[The_Ancient]

and if nothing else I will make you happy, either with replacing it (out of my own pocket) with a nothing equal value subs (sicne you dont like these) or someother way

email me, we will work it out

[Civic96]

Did you find me in your invoice Mike?

[The_spacemonkey]

I bet you either had them wired out of phase, or the one sub the coild were wired out of phase.... those are the comp VR's right? Dont give up hope on them yet, they are great budget subs

[Civic96]

Problem Solved!

I took the sub outta the box to find that one of the wires that goes from the box to the sub was hanging. I plugged it back in and the sub was back in business! It cracks and pops are loud volumed but I believe that is because I didnt screw in the screws far enough. All I had was a damn screwdriver and my dad's electric one is not strong enought to penetrate wood. Im going to take it to the shop tommorow and Ill tell you guys how it goes.

The Vrs are def great entrance subs........I only wish they were a bit better for sq, it ****es me off a lot when they get sloppy.

Is there anyways to tune the subs that they only go for the bumps and no of the buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrs? When there is a fast song that combines both of them my subs sound like they are having a stroke....lol
It may be that the trunk of my civic is not doing them justice but my friend has 3 JL 12's that make his trunk rattle 3X worse than mine but inside they sound sweeeet as hell so I dont know

Anyways...............

[The_spacemonkey]

small sealed box

[The_Ancient]

well you have 2 10's and he has 3 12's so there is a HUGE cone are differance there.. his will be louder



Problems with SQ could be many factors or a combo of factors

1> Gains not set right
2> Crossovers not Set right
3> improper Seal in box (either Subs to baffle, or the box itself


if all else fails try a small box

[trifle]

Originally posted by Civic96@Jul 21 2003, 10:02 PM
Problem Solved!

I took the sub outta the box to find that one of the wires that goes from the box to the sub was hanging. I plugged it back in and the sub was back in business! It cracks and pops are loud volumed but I believe that is because I didnt screw in the screws far enough. All I had was a damn screwdriver and my dad's electric one is not strong enought to penetrate wood. Im going to take it to the shop tommorow and Ill tell you guys how it goes.

The Vrs are def great entrance subs........I only wish they were a bit better for sq, it ****es me off a lot when they get sloppy.

Is there anyways to tune the subs that they only go for the bumps and no of the buuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrs? When there is a fast song that combines both of them my subs sound like they are having a stroke....lol
It may be that the trunk of my civic is not doing them justice but my friend has 3 JL 12's that make his trunk rattle 3X worse than mine but inside they sound sweeeet as hell so I dont know

Anyways...............

not tryna offend you or anything but quite often that stuff is user error...even had the sub been blown....

LMAoooo@only go for the bumps and none of the buuuuuurrrrrrrssss....LMAooo...you could only do that by editing the track, you record a bit right? use cooledit and take those portions of the song and majorly cut the bass frequencies in those areas...of course you'll lose any of the bumps that are in there, unless it's a higher bump and you've got a really low "bbuuuuuurrrrrrrrr" (LMAooo) that you can just cut out the lower freq's on....

also, try a smaller box

but i'm glad that everything's fixed...

and yeah comp vr's are good for the first bang, but won't suffice when you actually want quality...

subs are just like sex, at first you take anything that bangs, but eventually you realize you want more than that...

but, it's hard to make a sub sound really good...that just....doesn't...

[Civic96]

Guys I just took it to a shop where I had them installed and this is all I have to say......

I now know why they had ****ty sq..............

One sub is blown
The other is getting there

I had these things professionally installed, never ever abused them, had them in a small sealed box and this is what god gives me in return!

For some reason I still blame UPS.....those bastard can never ship anything to my house right.

Buuuuuuuuuuuurr