I agree totally about that spot being about as good as it gets for a meet. Plenty of covered and uncovered room to do whatever. It was almost like a mini fairground. Wish I had that much garage space.
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I agree totally about that spot being about as good as it gets for a meet. Plenty of covered and uncovered room to do whatever. It was almost like a mini fairground. Wish I had that much garage space.
I am really extremely lucky that my lovely wife was on board with allowing me to buy this place. The first time we saw it and walked into that empty shop it felt like an endless cavern of possibility. Three months ago it was like you tried to cram an entire junkyard inside your livingroom. So full of crap that you couldn't move in it. The shop is both a blessing and a curse that way!
I'm just thrilled things worked out as well as they did. Again I have to thank all the locals for pitching in with their side dishes for lunch and all the incredible help and support they gave me in preparing for this. It looks like we had about 24-25 SQ cars in on Saturday, and I think we could have fit just about twice that number. That gives us some room to grow for next year!
Thanks again to everyone that made it out! Can't wait to do it again... maybe something as the season comes to a close and the weather cools off again? :D
I'd be game for a Fall meet. Long as it's cooled down again it should be great. With Summer meets it seems like systems start to sound questionable, tempers flare, and a lot of people get sick from dehydration. One time at a Summer meet I was downing a bottle of water every half hour and still got sick from the heat.
My trip home was adventurous to say the least. Thank goodness for AAA.
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It looks like the alt may be toast. Thank you crappy battery terminals. The replacement alt (stock GTO alt is rated at 140 amps) is coming from OKC. Yes, I did lose the final settings, but I know how to get back there. I'd be game for a fall trip.
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Wow, what an awesome time I had at Todd's. It was a great time, filled with great cars, and even greater people. I am happy that I was able to put so many faces to the screennames I have always spoken with.
Al, you are a class act. Great to finally meet you. For the time I was there (2.5hrs or so), I was able to get some really needed car audio medicine.
Great time, and an awesome host.
Those that didn't make it this year, come out when the weather gets cooler. It should be some more fun.
Joe
People Eating Tasty Animals
Wow...welcome aboard, Joe. :welcome:
So, I heard the demo room was off the hook! Feedback, fellas (and ladies). ;)
It was weird...I came in and sat down and was amazed at the sound. He had the two speakers and what looked like a giant pool noodle standing in the middle. I got up to see if the center channel was behind the noodle, and the center channel disappeared
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that was no pool noodle. it was the singing Churro...
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I think Todd has figured out some mind tricks, as the room and the car were really one and the same. Beautiful sound with endless ability in either- nice smooth music on anything- and a ton of fun if called for action.
If ever invited for another g2g, I would make the drive agian in a heartbeat as long as it fit my schedule
Like everyone else, I had a great time hanging out and listening to some good sounding cars (and funny stories). Thanks to the wonderful hosts and to everyone who demoed their car and/or gave feedback on mine. Has me motivated to take my car to the next level.
I thought your car sounded rather great as it was. another level would be really interesting
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And it WILL be really interesting :)
I really like what those Morel mids Grayson is running have to offer. A lot better than the nz3 in my opinion. Just a much more full sound.
Thanks guys. I think it's tough to beat the NZ3 as a wideband driver, and it could have been even better if I had them more on axis. But for dynamics, there's no replacement for displacement, as they say. And I don't think there's another 4" speaker out there that beats the Morel in the cone area to diameter ratio. Otherwise it's a good speaker from a good company. And having the same cone material for midbass and midrange probably helps something somewhere too.
I had intended to get some feedback on the midrange placement before the final install at this meet, with improving the tweeter install being only a back-burner thought, but I really came away from this weekend with a much bigger appreciation for how much acoustic treatments and the immediate environment of a tweeter (and midrange, but to a lesser degree) can affect the sound, and the realization that what I had thought was a pretty decent tweeter install was FAR from ideal.
Hooray for learning things.
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Talking with Glenn and Scott I think I can benefit from going to a dedicated tweeter in the sails for extra sparkle and to help possibly widen my stage by crossing the 2's below beaming, but the boundaries those big pillars cause might make a wider stage difficult. It's no secret about how I feel about dash or pillar pods in my own vehicle. Simply not gonna happen. I'll work with what I have to keep a clean stock look, and as good of a job as that 10" does firing forward I'm sure a lot of you will understand why I'm going with a ported 8" for the shorter box. I've tried it all with sub position and forward firing is the way that has performed best. Downfiring causes too many cancellation problems. The downfired 15" I had sucked more than you could ever imagine but it kicked ass rearfiring even though it had its problems there too. It's all a balancing act of compromises to get the best sound I can without calling too much attention to itself.
Finally arrived back in Bham... twelve hours later! Not a bad drive. Found myself on a toll road by accident, forgot to adjust GPS, and ran through about five or six of them. Can't be sure what possessed me to do so, but I decided I might as well make somebody's day a little easier and pay for their toll fee. Paid for the stranger behind me, and that was that. A bit later, the guy passed me, and it just so happened that he was a former Marine, K9 search and rescue, according to his tag and some decals. :usa2: That alone made my day, I would be hard pressed to have happened to pick a better person. I felt lucky... and then it just so happened that the very next toll booth I pulled up to, the cashier miscounted my change and I wound up not actually paying the toll. So how 'bout them apples!
I also wound up going through some heavy rain today for the first time since the install was semi-put-together and was forced to test my element-proofing of the aperiodic vents, and it was a success! Not a single drop of water to be found!
All in all, not a bad trip back from a fantastic weekend. :)
Sounds like an adventure Ally. Karma will for sure take care of the righteous like it did with you getting your money back at the toll booth.
This is for the "reference" framework in the home shop (60x40 protected steel building) condo. I utilized an assortment of things from an old goose down duvets behind the speakers to 4" thick "UltraTtouch" reused denim protection. Once the sub introduce is done I will attempt to do an entire diagram in it's very own string...