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ROFL. Mikey, I think you can review that one for us.

Can't say that there is anything that would ever make me want to go to an amusement park.

Would annoy me as well. Monstrously.

ROFL, sennheiser.

So you still didn't read about interference. A Waves 101 class would be eye opening.

Sure there are things to do, but the people are nearly LA bad

Don't. Lol

Was my last Galaxie part. Kept hanging onto the locker in case I owned another 9" Ford. Since it is sold I suppose it is time to start shopping for another car that could hold a 9".

Just broke $4k on CL sales for the past year...little less in time actually, but my stock of extra shit is disappearing!!

Read. Ask questions. Perhaps keeping your car out of it for examples will help.

For audio help, I bill at $2k/hr. Have customers lined up wanting to pay it. Obviously here it is all con gratis. It is a way for me to relax from the hustle of my job and help people learn. Of course the first step in that is they have to want to learn. Once that is established the rest is much easier.

More than 5x

I didn't look...

Although my first guess is usually the right one.

Poor kid. Was convinced it was troll central, but now am not. Figured it wasn't his car, but something to make us all laugh and then have him poke idiot statements about how it is. After his last couple posts I am not sure he is a troll anymore.

OMG, Chad is either a really effective troll or the most confused person I have ever seen post on a forum.

Looks like he is 40, only 23 as well. Lol

Larry is awesome. Not sure if you looked at his other videos, but he can actually control a real machine. Little fucker is nuts.

You didn't look up interference Credibility comes from knowledge. I don't like sharing things like that because I believe the answers are in the meat of the conversation...but you aren't reading the conversation with anything but blinders on so I will. I am a degreed Acoustician. I do consulting work within the audio industry. You name a big speaker manufacturer in the US and I've had engineers there ask for my assistance in development. This includes integration in cars as well. I run a company that has over $10M in audio and vibration measurement equipment in North American alone. You are missing the fundamental basis for understanding acoustics. I am trying to help, but you are getting defensive instead of reading.

Quality crossover and car audio crossover is an oxymoron. A single cap can be a crossover, but a simple one with a 6dB slope. The manual didn't post right, but I don't need one. Designing crossovers is not rocket science, but a good one is usually as expensive if not moreso than the drivers you use. Any and EVERY driver should have a crossover on it. Otherwise it is going to be playing all frequencies. 20Hz in a tweeter is worse than 5kHz in a sub, but your response will be a hot mess if you don't use a crossover to optimize what speaker plays what. A quality passive and a well setup active will mimic each other perfectly. They are electronically analogous. The only problem is you do not have good passives so your question is moot. EQ is also not for compensating for location or reflection. It is mean to allow you to cut out anomalies in the system. Those could be caused by either of the above, but it is a last resort not a first step. Flat? NEVER. Why do you care what the response of your stereo is if YOU find it perfect. You should also generally NOT have to adjust for source material. That shows that the calibration of your system is way off. Do note that of course you will hear differences in sound, but it shouldn't be as drastic as you state. One 4x10 sucks donkey. In fact there is no such thing as a good 4x10. I have to apologize in your first thread I really, really, really thought you were a troll posting misinformation and confusion to get a reaction. I now see that it is regrettably real. To answer this last question, I want to start with a question to make sure I go back far enough. Do you understand constructive and deconstructive interference? If not, google it and then come back with questions regarding it and it will make it very easy to clear up why multiple drivers are not a good thing. You have an amazing amount of work in your car and have done a really nice job installing things; however, the information that led you to think you were doing something that would help your sound is really far off from reality. Somehow along the way someone really confused you and caused you to spend a superfluous amount of money to have very lackluster results. We can fix it, but first you need to understand why.

That and grating zest are all I use my microplane for...but it is a must own nearly unitasker.

Dick

I would never use stacked crossovers. Every crossover has a phase and magnitude response. When you use both the signals sum. Summing two signals that are altered of course will increase the constructive and desconstructive interference. It can be really damaging to the response. It has the same effect of playing multiple drivers on the same frequencies. For clarity and quality this should be avoided as much as possible. This is exacerbated in a car due to all the nasty reflecting planes. It is bad enough to have to drive a driver into the comb filtering domain, but then adding another or further interference in the crossover is terrible. The other aspect of this of course is that in general passive car audio crossovers are made with uber cheap components and designed for an "average" install. This is somewhat absurd since there is no such thing as an install that is exactly like another. This means that the passive crossover was never a good choice for any vehicle ever to begin with. If you want to use a passive crossover and have it really work you should design the passive crossover using in situ measurements in the installed location. Anything else is EASILY surpassed with even a simple processor like a miniDSP. Last comment on active processors. I would avoid any ones with analog front ends. Turning a knob to dial in the frequency response or eq was fine in 1985, but today it is absurdly inaccurate and makes no sense whatsoever. I would always prefer to have control from the drivers seat as well. The more you can adapt as you sit in the listening location of the car the better.

Thrashing on a Camry. Interesting.

Wait, wha?