I would say that here you say every system could benefit, and it would be worth every cent to some. Even if you have a million dollars in the bank, there are other things that would benefit my simple example system, and actually be worth it, like an amp on the front stage, and better components, and a kick ass install.

It's a great processor to be sure, but it wouldn't improve every system in cost relation if it were half the price.

of course there are other things that would benefit the systems as well as a pxah900, im pretty sure that nobody would argue that, would it benefit a simple system yes, would it benefit a more advanced system like the one you mentioned, yes. is it worth the money, to some yes to others no. again i repeat myself

There are 3 other users of the board, aside from Dave and myself, that have H900s.

I'd like to re-share a moment from the past when I first took possesion of this jewel.

I played a full range signal from my deck, to an amp, then directly into my mids. (No filters set)

I then ran a fiber optical cable from my deck to the H900, then connected the H900 directly to an amp, and then directly to my mids. (No filters set)

Notes: I used the same amp in both tests. I used the exact same interconnect cable between the amp and the deck/H900. The speaker wire was also the same, and no I didn't use an HDCD that the full sonic potential can only be fully realized with the H900.

The H900 was a big step forward in both tonality and imaging. EVERYTHING was more natural.

Yes there are some better pure D/A converters than the H900 for a fraction of the price that you can use in your car. But, you kind of give and take a little by using an external D/A that doesn't have any signal processing. On one side, you get a better analogue signal than the H900, but then you get to muck it up with an analogue X.O. and/or E.Q. HOW do I know this? I've done it.

I realize that I'm probably representitive of about 1% of car audio enthusiasts. But the bottom line to me is that I have HUGE fun playing with this stuff. And that to me is what car audio is all about, no matter what the budget.

Have FUN.

Adam

there are more than 3 pxah900 users here, i can think of 5 that i know of, and not a complaint from one of them, and one of them has a very modest system, not too far off from dwvw's system he stated, just add the 4 channel amp. no fibre optic, analogue into the pxa and everything

[ May 29, 2005, 02:16 AM: Message edited by: defro13 ]