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Index:
Page 1 Components
Page 2 Speaker Install
Page 3 New front soundstage

Here is my crunch V-600 and V-150. The V-600 will power the subs. The V-150 will power the rear quarter panel midbass. Crunch contracted MTX's fab house to build these PCBs, and it shows. Very well built amps IMHO. My only complaint is the stupid VU meters. IMHO they ruined what could have been a stunning slab of polished Aluminum.

Powerbase extreme 15"

Legacy LS-63 6.5" midbbass. El cheapo, $10 for the pair. They are starting to fall apart after half a year, so I'm looking for some replacements. I just bottomed them out on some Mike Portnoy kick drum and John Myung bass lines. !!SMACK!! Lucky I didn't damage the amps.

Rockford RFP2408 woofers. Will use these in the rear 1/4 pannels and replace the legacy 6.5s. Serious kick from these little beasts.

BOSS REV-50 Crossover

Boss recommends a Y cable in the event that you only have a left and right RCA line output, without fader. I dont like Y adapters since they tend to clutter things up a little. So I added a pair of jumper wires to the PCB. The jumper takes place of the Y adapter and splits the 2 head unit line out signals to all 4 inputs on the crossover. A more flexible alternative would be to add a DPDT switch. I could toggle between the original circuit and the modded circiuit. Maybe some day...

Here are pics of my stellar Hifonics VIII amps. These guys were made around 1991, by Zed Audio in Simi Valley CA. These are still my favorite amps for mids and highs. The Jupiter (not pictured, 35x4)powers a pair of image dynamics horns and JBL tweeters. The Odin pumps 140x2 RMS watts @ 2 ohms into the Legacy midbasses. The Vulcan pushes 50x2 into the infinity mids.

Here are pics of my Image Dynamics Horn Loaded Compression Drivers (HLCD).

Heres what the throat looks like. This is the drivers side horn. Notice one side is flared open more than the other, to help project and cross-fire the output to enhance imaging.

Heres the mounting surface for the driver. I am not sure why it needs to be so HUGE. Looks like it will accomodate other pro-sound horns... Hmmm. I may bust out the dremel and remove some material if I have to. This thing is definitely tweekable!!

Images of the driver, nothing special here.

Heres the driver opening that fires into the horn. Looks like some kind of diffuser..?

In this pic I am getting ready to take the driver apart. The masking tape has tick marks so I can relocate "top dead center" when I re-assemble the components. I want to make sure I put it back together right :~)

Heres the motor inside the driver enclosure. Looks like a motorola piezo element ???? Notice the small lightbulb used as a fuse on the + terminal. This also provides the amp with an impedence load.

Heres the paper cone thats coupled to the piezo driver. Similar to many other motorola piezo driven cones I have seen.

Heres the other side of that "diffuser" thing. This sits flush to the paper cone and is what the cone fires through.

This last horn pic is me bench testing as a center channel in my HT system. I thought I'd do these drivers justice and christen them with a massive John Petrucci guitar solo.

Here is the Pioneer DEH-P5200... Its a great CD head. I like the adjustable subwoofer active crossover, and the programable 3 band parametric EQ is very useful. I received this unit from a generous co-worker after he upgraded his system to MP3. Thanks Randall!

Night shots are TOUGH!!

On to the installation...