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Hmmmmmmmmm, the part about having them facing towards you I can't agree with. I've heard setups with the mid driver facing directly across in the kickpanels that sounded incredibly good. I think to generally say that they have to be facing towards you may not always be correct, to sound good anyways. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

Am I the only person that has problems with kick panels being blocked by my or my passenger's body. I'm not that big(6'2"-255-mostly muscle by the way), I'm sure in a very large car or truck this probably would not be a problem, but in any car I've listened to with kicks, I've found that a lot of the sound energy gets blocked or absorbed, particularly the highs. I guess for thin or smaller people, this may not be a problem, for me the mids/tweets have to be up higher and I just use time delay to correct the imaging for me at least.

[ August 17, 2005, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: veeman ]

 

I agree 100% which is why this topic was posted to begin with. Destroying my dash is too much, the doors ill have to do.

 

^^My feeling is; unless you compete or you are a real SQ audio fanatic, then it's not worth destroying your car for a system. Honestly, i think my car sounds almost as good SQ wise as my home system(which is pretty good-Harman kardon/ vandersteen towers)and definitely much more fun and louder. For me car audio has to be about great sound while I'm driving, I'm not a "park in the donut shop" guy ( I used to be, but not anymore). I like tunes while I'm moving. As far as imaging and staging goes...as long as it's fairly realistic, I'm happy. The time alignment on my eq does a pretty good job of putting the image in the centre above the dash for the driver(me), and allows me to move it around to fine tune it. As I've mentioned on this board a number of times; I believe pinpoint imaging is rarely achieved in real life situations. Any venue I've ever attended for live music has never had me placed at the center. I'm usually to one side or the other and far back, or up close to one side. My point is that to create a realistic environment in your car is really to not be in the center, at least for me. I just want it loud enough, clear enough and very dynamic. That's SQ for me.

 

Yes; I am and sort of glad to chat stereo some more...things have changed alot for me in the last year...stereo wise that is...I am still working on my set-up...I was hoping to have had it done last year but...a few changes made me re-thinkmy older set-up I had.

The biggest change I've had to make is my Amp set-up...My older set-up consisted of an 1100a2 and an 800a4...both did their job but...for cosmetics purposes I had to change them...I had them in my spare tire well, they fit allright but somthing else came up....Rockford Fosgate introduced some new amps last year...the T2000 and the T800a4...now I have bought both of them and have created a UNIQUE amp rack for them...they are mounted one on top of each other inside my spare tire well, I also bought a different battery also...I used to have an OPTIMA Yellow-top mounted underneath my old amps but I conlcuded it was too bulky for my new set-up...now...I have a North Star Deep cycle battery used for telecomunication devises etc...this battery is compact...11 X 16 X...and only 4.2 inches wide!...I was able to fit this puppy under neath both my other amps very snuggly inside my spare tire well....this monster weighs over 78 punds...and most battery's are rated on their weight to power ratio in mag reveiws...this thing weighs more than Stingers biggest battery...and is ten times smaller!...mind you it didn't come cheap either...at a cost of $500 CDN.

I'm still in the process of hooking things up...but I'm hoping that the monster RF amps I bought will blow me away...after all they are practically twice the size of my older amps I had....or ever had....I bought them at a price you'll never find in Canada...I paid $860 CDN for the T2000BD Mono amp...and I think they reatail for over $2200 here in Canada....it is rated at over 2200 WATTS RMS MONO or 1200 RMS stereo...that is nearly TWICE the power of my older 1100a2...which kept going into shut off mode; cause most speakers today have low impendances...the newer RF amps should'nt go into impendance protection, which is why I think they are made to handle 1-ohm loads...and it makes sense, speaker's naturaly drop their impendance value's after a period of use.

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Sorry to beat up on you on your first post back Halo...

 

Sounds like you are having fun Halo...it's what it's all about.

Those are some monster amps....

Adam