Hello all! I'm a relative newbie here, but not to car audio in general. What better way to introduce myself to the forums than to start a build log! With that said, it's been about 5 years since I've done anything car audio related. My last car was a 2003 Subaru Impreza Wagon with dual Silver Flutes in the doors and dual full-range's in the dash corners, running a basic active crossover setup off an 80-PRS. On bass duty was a v.1 Sundown X12 in 3.5 cubic feet and tuned at something ridiculously low (29Hz, if I'm remembering correctly). I sold that car in 2016 and have been driving a company vehicle ever since...but, the company just sunset the vehicle program and I finally have a personal vehicle again, which means it's time to start a new build!
Here's the plan:
Vehicle: 2018 Honda Civic Sport Hatchback
Radio: Kenwood DMX957XR (with proprietary Kenwood dashcam)
Front Speakers: CDT ES-062i
Front Amp: Soundstream REF2.370 (the reboot model, not the original)
Rear Speakers: Stock, off deck power
Subwoofer: Sundown X12 v.1
Sub Amp: Hifonics BRZ1700.1
Sound Deadening: Sound Deadener Showdown (CLD tiles, MLV, CCF - stuff I'd bought years ago before he shut down)
Some of these items I've bought new, others I'm pulling out of storage. All power wire, speaker wire, RCA cables and distribution are Knu Konceptz. For the subwoofer enclosure, I'm dusting off a design I'd put together before I sold off the Subaru, which is a horn-ish ported enclosure. I never got around to building this enclosure, but the math was all done and the layout was built in Sketchup. I've since lost the math/details, so I don't have any of the specifics, but I more or less knew what I was doing back then (these days, probably not so much). If that ends up sounding terrible, I still have the Sketchup file for the old box, as well, which I know works well.
I'm down to the last few minor items I need to buy for the install, mostly aesthetic at this point. I've taken the week of September 6th off to do the build and the install, so once I get going, I'll start dumping pics.
More to come soon!