SSSSoooo, since I sold my first Epic

( I now get to play with my second.
For a summer stop gap instant fun thing I put in two of my Ebay amps. I stuck them on the aft bulkhead in the forward port storage area. It is a much taller and longer wall than on a D drive. I had to swap out three amps until I got two that worked. Same footprint and wiring so it took five minutes. I love Ebay. I'll get them all fixed for spares. I wanted to do something quick, it is not at all creative but the amps are there. One 600 watt RMS @ 2 ohm on the tower box, it will run at 4 ohm for 300 clean ass old school US made watts. 4 x Polk Momo 6x9's on the tower. The amps fit perfectly and
I have its little brother, a 300 watt Planet Audio (Zed Audio) @ 2 ohms on a JL W3 10" in a sealed enclosure @ 2 ohms. It sounds pretty good, couldn't crank it tonight. I have another US made Planet Audio Class D amp (1250 watts at 1 ohm) for a 12W6 when I figure where to put it. There ain't much space under the dash, I'm thinkin' in the rear storage, I have the 10 on the port side up against the back seat. The box doesn't take much away from the side storage, 12" would be no problema with a slick enclosure. Maybe on the starboard side? Gotta hava nother sub. Long run, prolly 2 12's on the same amp.
I had to add the Planet Audio 6 channel preamp and the EpicMarine audio control I made because I couldn't find long enough RCA's. I found a two pair (four conductor) 5Msingle cable for 50$ at Fryes. I cut it up to work with the amp locations, it was too short to go around the perimeter of the bow. I ran it around the inside perimeter of the walk through and tossed (yeah) the preamp into the dark, cavernous area between the back of the heater/footpanel assy and the panel that closes the starboard underseat forward storage. The gas line and bilge/ballast and steering cables pass through here. It's carpeted in there and semi dry, and the thing has feet on it, so it should work for a while:)
I stuck the three knob control thing under the head unit on the bottom of the dash with that wunnerful 3M trim adhesive double stick tape. It'll be cool to have boat tower sub control of the audio again. I'm so cheap I even pulled the same tower speaker wire back through the tower again to the new cheap ass ebay amps. Pics to come tomorrow, big boat day.
