putting an alpine 9885 in my acura CL, which is double din, the kit im ordering has a half din slot for an EQ, now i was wondering if this could help my setup sound quality.. let me explain what ill have.

Alpine 9885 as deck
Alpine mrv-f545 (ch 3/4 for sub) ch 1/2 for front mid range
Alpine mrv-f345 (ch 1/2 for front tweets) ch 3/4 for full range rearfill

now if i put that EQ in there my deck will only use one preout correct? the front, with subs "off" on deck, that will give the EQ a single FULL input, and then the EQ outputs front,rear, and sub, the front from EQ will go to my audio contol crossover, the sub output from EQ would go dirrectly to Amp, as well as rear output from EQ.


or would it be better to to run the decks EQ?

this EQ
http://www.clarion.com/us/en/products/2006/audio/processors/EQS746/us-en-product-pf_1134643389018.html

 

there is a whole thread here already about the 9885 having NO eq. simple bass/treble only.
If you want eq, yes, you need the proc. And the deck has a switch on it that will allow it to work with the proc.

 

I'm not familiar with that head unit. But after I ran without an external EQ and the with, I'd say go for it. More control normaly give better SQ.

 

I have a the Alpine 9885. And let me tell you, I was extremly dissapointed. It has no EQ really at all...I should of read more before buying the deck so it was a really stupid thing for me to do. I want to get the Pioneer 880PRS because it has a L/R 16 band EQ. And a way better crossover.

The 9885 doesn't even have a low passive filter for the sub, it only has adjustable bass center frequency of up to 200hz!. And when you change it to that it goes into the sub as well, so that really sucks hard.

If you had an external EQ for that deck it would be excellent. The deck is really used for an external EQ...

If you have anymore questions about the 9885 you can pm me

 

Yeah im thinking of ordering this one, its only 7 band, but it looks like it might do the trick. what do you think?

http://www.clarion.com/us/en/products/2006/audio/processors/EQS746/us-en-product-pf_1134643389018.html

so just to clear up how things would go. i would first fade 100% to front (being that EQ only has input for 2ch (asided aux in)), and turn "subwoofer" off (so the full freq gets output out of front output) then i would be using the EQ for fading (front/rear) the EQ has a crossover for subs, so i would just feed that directly to an amp. and then front output to my crossover for my front fill. this would be how its done right?

 

Hey that looks like a good buy, not too fancy and complicated.

Alpine is puting out a new HU, the 9887 that has a 6 band EQ. But I don't think it's realeased yet .

 

yeah im kinda horny on the in dash 1/2 din. and that looks clean.