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Aaron the cure for your desire of an NSX is a test drive. Your RX is more of a car.

Tons of options dash wise that don't require the huge markup of the Dakota stuff which IMO is underwhelming. You've got plenty of dash to build up your own layout of standard gauges.

swift, ass of your car in the garage looks FUCKING SWEET. Nice work.

Great, screaming just what I meant.

N33DLESS TO SAY IM SHITFACED NAD ITS 3;15am

Now this just made my day LOL ... Thank you Sir !!! "good car audio sound without the use of a car" ... Nice !!!Seriously?? Are you that confused that you think there is a difference in music reproduction based on where it is? You set your goals WAY too low. Great audio should be great audio regardless of location or environment. Nearly impossible to do this in a car so benchmarking not in the car is by far the most cost effective way. Only downfall is that it will make you rather uninspired by what can be done in a car. You can't really be that stupid. I said nothing about car audio shops. TERRIBLE places to shop IMO. They regularly sell overpriced mediocre crap like Blues Audio stuff. 52 weeks in a year and you are away from your family for 40+ ... Thats insane bro !!! I had a chance or two to go out and buy a bucket truck, hook the camper to it, get out there in the real world and make the big bucks and make me one hell of a carrer ... Only one problem, my family. I made a choice. Go out and get paid, or stay local and make do and have a life with my wife and kids. I chose to stay home and grow old with my wife and see my kids grow up. Its your decision to put your career over being with your family. Yea, you may have a bad ass career, but there is always a price ... You kids may not say it now, of know it now, but they WILL Remember all of those little moments and "special" events that happened and daddy wasn't there to see it ... Why do you assume you spend more time with your kids than I do mine just because I travel? My boss & company is completely family first. I spend WAY more time being a parent than any other one I know. My priorities are in the right way in that regard. No thank you ... We do have a common interest in music, but we definately Do Not have the same common interest in Car Audio ... I'd rather be Doin' what we do best: Eatin' laughin' and playin Cars !!! Good enough for me ...Oh, so when it's useful you do not want to learn? Nice attitude. Not sure why the love of music has to be isolated to a car for you. For me it happens in a car, on a plane, in my office, in my kitchen, in my living room, in my listening room. Basically everywhere. The real question is why are you so against actually learning something? I seriously don't get it. You seem to want to live and breath car audio but are holding yourself back so far on understanding it. I don't get it.

Thanks. Also got confirmation I am getting the largest order the company has ever had....by more than 2x.

Power/ground doesn't matter. Now think of where your ground runs. Get it? Nope, equipment is easy. Install, install, install.

Stop worrying about your definition and assuming what you will have to do and instead focus on what you want to improve. The hiss is a reasonable start although from your description so far it sounds like thermal noise due to the gains being too high. Easy to tell, turn them down and see if it goes away. If not, plenty of other things cause noise, but an educated guess leads down this path.

Killed it tonight. Think I just managed to get the most advanced acoustic tool added to my teams toolbag. Woot!

Auction goers for that car will want a deal. IMO you'd sell it faster on CL. One fact about CL, if you don't get calls your price is too high. No way you'll get more for it at an auction that on CL IMO.CL has been no luck. Only offers are for trades. It's an auction not just for cars but guns gold farm equipment etc. J If you get no response on CL, your price is too high.

Assuming that all specs are measured appropriately you would have a drop of that size. It would not be audible though as long as you were setup for safe output at 14.4 and 16.

Auction goers for that car will want a deal. IMO you'd sell it faster on CL. One fact about CL, if you don't get calls your price is too high. No way you'll get more for it at an auction that on CL IMO.

Randal, if you want to hear how a good car stereo should sound you don't even need a car. Many reasonably high end stereo shops have listening rooms that can make Scott's car and others sound mundane in comparison. This is a great place to start and way better than any car audio event. I travel 40+ weeks a year for work. When not traveling for work I am spending time with my kids. Sort of kicks Huntsville out the window unless I happened to be there for business, but it is Alabama so that isn't so likely. For instance this week I am at the SAE NVH show. Single biggest mecca for automobile noise reduction in the world. Nearly 100% of the visitors are customers of mine. Obviously I can't miss events like this. As for the blind a/b testing that requires almost no test equipment. It's obviously better if the output is normalized, but other than that nothing is needed. I'd be glad to explain it. Not sure what you don't understand about it though. Give me a start and I'll expound.

If you've never heard a stereo setup that way you've never heard a good car stereo. "drowning out" is poor tuning and an overzealous budget towards the least important part of the car stereo - the sub. Adding more speakers in the rear won't help that concern, much better to allocate that budget to what is effective.

Gorgeous car. Personally I think a set of 18's would look better than the 20's, but that can be changed. Seriously sexy. Definitely an "upgrade" from the truck. Love it!

Bolting speakers into your door is not an install. A baffle, deadening, MLV, decoupling of the driver from door resonances are critical to success. Mounting location and aiming as well. In fact without knowing in detail the locations, aiming, processing and such helping to pick drivers isn't really possible. And yes, no rears. Not even in a Suburban. They won't add anything and take plenty away.

By slightly Brad means a lot overkill, in particular if you have short cable runs. Obviously you can see that from the website though. edit: just realized this is in the subwoofer forum. For "speakers" like you asked it is big time overkill, for your sub it should even be fine unless you are power crazed.

Haha Caught on fire!? yeah just a little overpowered The gain on the head unit can do just as much damage as the one on the amp. usually it is advisable not to mess with the sub boost on the head unit Classic case again of exactly why you should use your ears. If they are trained to listen for stress and you teach them what it sounds like it doesn't matter what you do setting wise as you will know when you go too far. Damage doesn't come from either gain knob, it comes from a careless user. First step is always to train your ears. Until then you shouldn't even have a stereo. Obviously learning steps are great, you've both had them, hopefully they sink in.

Who is doing the install? ie, what is the budget for that portion? As for the rears, that is the easy part. Don't buy anything nor even hookup what you have. Focus your whole budget on the install and fronts.

As an engineer, if efficiency is the primary design objective you'd focus on having the best at the voltage the device was designed to run at. Outside of that scenario is a bunch of compromises.

or More seriously neither. Ported is what you need.

Not defensive just explaining forum etiquette 101. Everyone else already understood...which leads to your implied problem. I have none, not sure why you would. Life is short, it's the internet, no need to take things personally. The DD-1 is a great example of sharing the right details. I am seriously dumbfounded at what goal people would have in using it. It fulfills zero that I know of. I'd change my tune if someone cited a good one, but Steve and his engineer couldn't so I am doubtful there is one. So with what goal would you have in using one?

Rip them lossless and progressively with more compression. Have someone do a blind A/B listening test with your rips and see when it starts to bug you. If you have "enough" then why do anything? If the setup is perfect then you cannot improve it. You are confusing yourself on EVERY audio topic with the "I doubt it could hurt". It is time to start listening, comparing with other high end things and then describing what you are lacking.

Fuck that. If people are too lazy to ask a good question and share information diplomacy is a waste of time. That's been proven over and over and over and over. That'd be the dumbest thing you've ever done.