The amprack on the other hand did prove to be a bit of a challenge. Making everything clean with hidden inputs, holes, assembly, etc., was a pain in the arse. It was also tricky to make sure that the amprack was securely mounted to the vehicle – however I was able to resolve that issue with some ingenuity and a few special order bolts…
I mentioned the amprack was a pain in the arse, right? Well, I should also preface that with the fact that I’m a novice at this stuff. Playing ‘installer’ proved to be a little hazardous as I lost a battle with a utility knife carpeting the amprack (ER room visit with stitches!)
Power is provided by Stinger all the way around. 0/1 gauge supply to a distributor that splits into 4 – 4 gauge power wires (placed between the DB’s). The old-skool PPI’s have standard 8 gauge inputs, so to accommodate this I bought eight 4 gauge to 8 gauge reducer adapters. They look sweet in addition to being functional.
After wiring everything I was more than happy to power her up. Gently turned up the volume 1/4 of the way and heard sweet sweet sound. (everything flat, no processing). I was pleased with what I was hearing. However, a little intimidated to turn it up until xover and tuned, etc. Played with the settings a while, and came up with settings that I felt really pushed the Deathboxes. (I was anxious to hear them both in concert pushed to the limits!). Here are the settings:
# Crossover #
[Frequency(Hz)/Slope(dB/oct)/Level(dB)]
Front:160.0/24/-1
Center:160/24/-1
Rear:160.0/24/-1
SW:63.0/24/-1
# Parametric-EQ #
[Frequency(Hz)/Level(dB)/Width(Q)]
Band1:40.0/+6/3
Band2:125.0/-3/3
Band3:1.0k/+4/3
Band4:2.5k/+5/3
Band5:8.0k/+6/3
I’ve got the ability to set six parametric configurations, as well as six xover configurations – so I’ll be playing with those more in the future to accommodate various musical genres. But for now, the above is what I went with to initially hear the system pushed. With the gains set properly I finally cranked her up! LOL, OMG, WTF?!!! PURE INSANITY!!!! There was nothing but crystal clear sound as loud as I could take her (or stand it). The sound was full, rich, deep, crisp, pleasing tones from across the spectrum. Bass tones literally blurred my vision and took my breath as the Deathboxes executed them effortlessly. A friend who came over later to watch the Nuggets game with me sat in the VehiCROSS as I cranked it up. With the same blurred vision I was experiencing he looks and tries to yell over to me, “I can feel the bass crushing my nuts!”. My labors are validated. LOL… I wanted the ability to enjoy DEEP clean bass as well as overall SQ - I’m pretty sure mission accomplished!
Here are the final pics of the build with everything installed:
-biju.
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