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That sucks. Always sad to hear. One suggestion, which is even more effective than alarms: Don't be noticeable. Not accusing, but make sure you don't blast your system around town. Don't make yourself a target.

Well I guess I will intorduce myself. My name is Ryan, I am a Moderator here. This board is fairly new in its present form, but our community is over 4 years old and I have been a part of it for almost that long. Now lets get one thing straight and lets get it straight right now, right here. If you...

I think it's stupid for people to get all pissy about it. He seems like a reasonable guy. I uploaded a video of the first ED SP on there. It's a cool site. Hopefully some loser doesn't sue the guy.

Calculating port tuning is a fairly simple exercise, and doesn't really require any overly complex program. If you want accurate high power modeling though, you certainly won't get it for free. Very few box programs actually account for changes in BL, Cms, and Le as excursion and heat increase. Lear...

You have to remember that even if you have a 2000w amp, you won't be sending anywhere NEAR that much power to the subwoofer 95% of the time. Music is transient in nature, and you would almost never be in a situation where the amplifier would ever actually be putting out it's maximum RMS power for mo...

The Shiva is a fairly efficient subwoofer. It really doesn't NEED 600 watts at all. Honestly, I'd say anything above 400 watts is generally going to have the majority of it wasted as heat anyway. They really don't require very much power in any of the recommended enclosures to reach xmax. You can ge...

This place sure seems to abound with misinformation and myths...accuracy has NOTHING to do with woofer diameter. Neither mass nor woofer diameter are the limiting factor in response for subwoofers. Inductance is far and away the largest factor in transient performance, since it far and away has the ...

The Diamond above all. The L7 has terrible SQ and shouldn't be put in a sealed box. What on earth are you talking about? If you want SQ out of the L7, don't put it in anything BUT a sealed box. It's a high Q driver, and really not that well suited for vented use for a musical application. They can ...

Yep, those have been around for a while. They actually have larger diameter voice coils than the Stroker (4" vs 3"), and a much lighter motor structure. The motor on the 12 and 15 is only 150oz, which is much lighter than the Stroker. Even the 300oz motor on the 18 is still lighter than th...

The Koda woofers are pretty good. You can certainly think of them as mini Brahmas. Unlike the Koda components, they do use XBL^2. The Brahma is only capable of about 4dB more linear output than the Koda, so the Koda is definitely a great value.