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Old Aug 5, 2004 | 04:55 PM
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bolting down sub box

how do I bolt down my sub box, thanks
Old Aug 5, 2004 | 04:55 PM
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take a piece of mdf, stick it under your carpeting, bolt into it using L brackets and wood bolts
Old Aug 5, 2004 | 05:27 PM
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so just stick it under there, don't bolt it down anyhow
Old Aug 5, 2004 | 08:07 PM
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I just screwed mine with wood screws and 'L' brackets directly to the board that is under the carpet. Seems to hold it in place fairly well. i think I have 4 'L' brackets. BTW my box is 80+ lbs 3/4"MDF... hehe

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Old Aug 18, 2004 | 11:30 PM
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if you want your box to stay put and not move just use velcro
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by wade2ksleeper
how do I bolt down my sub box, thanks
Please don't try any of those methods. Use some "L" brackets and mount the box directly to the metal floor. Just make sure you're not drilling into anything important under the car first. You can cut small slits in the carpeting for the brackets. It'll take some time positioning everything, but it'll be worth it. If you have to make an emergency lane change or get into an accident you don't want your box coming loose.

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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 04:37 PM
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Hey tony i checked out your site, really nice work putting together your music set up, one question, why not a capacitor ?
Old Aug 19, 2004 | 05:07 PM
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Hey tony i checked out your site, really nice work putting together your music set up, one question, why not a capacitor ?
Thanks! Well I've never really needed one. But I'm adding a third amp soon, dedicated strictly for the subs. I might add one at that point.

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Old Aug 19, 2004 | 06:13 PM
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how are you going to set it up, and how did you install xm ? 2 amps for internals? , one amp for internal woofers? 3rd amp strickly for subwoofers?
Old Aug 20, 2004 | 01:23 AM
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how are you going to set it up, and how did you install xm ? 2 amps for internals? , one amp for internal woofers? 3rd amp strickly for subwoofers?
I have the following amps:
Phoenix Gold ZX475ti (4-channel)
PG ZX450 (4channel)
PG ZX500 (2 channel)

I have the following speakers:
Dynaudio System 360 (8-inch midwoofers, 3-inch midranges & 1-inch tweeters)
Focal 5-1/4 inch coaxials for rear fill
2 Soundstream subs in the trunk

The ZX475 drives the 8-inch Dyns and tweeters and then I outputted a bandpassed signal (everything below what the tweeters get and above the midwoofers) to the ZX450, which drives the Dyn midranges. With the other two channels on the ZX450 I'll drive the Focal coaxials in the back doors. The ZX500 is in the trunk and will be bridged to drive the subs.

Not really sure what you're asking on the XM Radio. It has a small controller that I've mounted up in the sunglass holder. The receiver is mounted under the dash and the antenna is on the roof. It's hooked up into the auxilliary input on my head unit. I actually have an outboard auxilliary input adapter that allows up to 2 inputs plus a USB port (which I've never used) and a headphone jack that allows a passenger to listen to XM while I listen to a CD. Cool feature, but hardly used. I believe the USB port could be used to listen to a DVD player on a laptop, for example.

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Old Aug 20, 2004 | 06:11 AM
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I have a XM Ready Headunit. i belive i need another unit from pioneer plus antena to compelete the set up.

Am i going in the right direction here, i would like to add XM , another question how is the sound quality with XM?
Old Aug 20, 2004 | 09:56 PM
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you're right. you need a pioneer xm tuner and antenna. if you run a dedicated xm tuner into your headunit you will have cd quality sound.
Old Aug 20, 2004 | 10:13 PM
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Pioneer XM Tuner should be able to produce cd equality sound on my deck right
Old Aug 21, 2004 | 03:48 AM
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yeah, but i just realized we hijacked wade2ksleeper's thread. sorry man
Old Aug 21, 2004 | 11:58 AM
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don't worry about it, i got the info i need
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