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Originally Posted by vaspen
Thank you..
Lc7 and lc8i both have active bass restoration (I'm sure the dm810 and lc8i are virtually the same but ill look it up then)
So its better to just eliminate the center then ?
Does your future setup plan on running aftermarket dsp
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No, I've never used a DSP in 20 years of car-fi installs and in my own cars. I'll be using the M650-GM from NAV-TV, just running the standard RCA outputs to my Pioneer and Alpine amps that are about 20 years old and replace the speakers with Boston Acoustics or equivalent if I can find them (I think aftermarket BA is out of business)
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Originally Posted by drfeelgood
I mentioned a professional shop because you seemed to be lost at the mere mention of DSP
I was about to say there was no right or wrong way to do an install, but that's not true, there is definitely a wrong way to do it. But there are also multiple right ways.
You don't need to spend $7k on a sound system (although that's not even half of what I spent on my real SQ system in my CTS-V coupe) but there are components that you want to install if you actually want good quality sound. I imagine that what I consider good sound and what you consider good sound are clearly different. The fact that you have never used a DSP in a system means you have never had a tuned system, because you can't adequately tune a system without a DSP with DTA. Even if you select the correct speakers for on axis-/off axis imaging, you still run into the problem of distance. Sound is reaching each ear at different times from each speaker, you must delay that sound for closer speakers in order to have perfect staging and imaging.
So, as mentioned, you can definitely cut corners at every level (speaker choice, line out converter , no DSP, etcs. ) we have described the right way to do the install and deviation from that will not yield ideal results.
Good luck on the build!
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That's great if you're running a system for high level competition, but for normal everyday driving it's really difficult to discern those kinds of details in a loud, moving, environment with no acoustics like a car.
You probably have a listening room in your house with properly aligned tube traps for exact acoustical tuning of your room with a system that has over $100,000 in high end equipment in it right? If you spend that kind of cash on a system in a car you're no doubt a high end audiophile.
I am installing the aftermarket system just to make it cleaner, louder, and a little more bite to the bass. For $2-3k you can make something a hundred times better than the factory Bose. I just think what you're spending yields just slightly better sound than that. Just my opinion. I don't like the sound of digitally manipulated systems. If the imaging is slightly off my system isn't going to keep me from hearing Paul McCartney's bass on Paperback Writer.