I think what Dukk means is that people will resort to making it easier to overcome the challenges of making a good soundstage in a car by changing the aspects of the listener orientation to the transducers as opposed to using applied science, install techniques, and tuning to have a truly great install in a car that has both seats.

If that is in fact what he is saying, I do see the value in that statement. There are those who will opt to do a single seat, and those who will not, but is it not fun to share the enjoyment with someone once in a while. I think there is also some self gratification with getting a really great sound from both seats instead of just one. It's about overcoming the acoustical environment that a car gives you in such a way that the car doesn't become or look like an amusement ride at the fair.

I do also understand the single seat thing too. If it is truly about getting the absolute best you can get in any single seat location, obviously a single seater would be optimal and defro's point would be correct.

As for me, I am a two seat SQ fan myself, but then again, I just love a great sound whenever I am exposed to it.

 

^ Well if you want to pretty it up a bit...

It is an opinion anyway. One seat cars are a creation of convenience rather than good solid system design.

 

I have yet to hear a car that sounded awesome from both seats, that had realistic seating positions. At least not from cars without a center channel.
Single seat cars make sense for most people. All of my cars upto this point have been driver side biased. But this year will be a little different.

I also had a chance to hear the Be's in two different cars. Both had a lot of time put in to their installs. They did sound good, but for the money, I'll stick to my Scan Speaks.

 

Agreed I did talk about install ( busted ) but I also talked about using the right driver for the right application.

James thanks for the plug, I think you have done the single best job with ext drivers I have yet to see. The work you put into your car to make everything sound there best astounded me.

 

Defro- were you going to go somewhere with this? I was curious what you were going to talk about. This is certainly one of the best HU out there (Pioneer P9, Clairion DRX9255, I guess the Mac is competition but it is certainly the opposite of the other HU).

What features are inherent to the current HU if I were to simply hook it up to a D/A?

 

I dont think I would call the P9 VW. More like a Corvete.

 

John - IMO Dave was trying to bait me as I always pipe in with "F#1 products are overpriced/not worth the money"

Which...their not - in my opinion..

 

have you converted Dukk?