Kapt
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I appreciate that. Define active system please
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how about a 5 channel amp? Each of the 4 doors and the sub, while keeping those dash speakers powered off the head unit? Alpine makes such a beast: PDX-V9. 4 channels @ 100 and sub @ 500?
Kapt, I may be wrong but if you only had the sub amp before I'm gonna assume your power and ground wire is only 4 or 8 gauge. If so time to upgrade.
You don't like being able to hear your surround sound? I can hear my rear speakers now, so I wanted to keep it that way
No, I do not want to hear surround sound in my truck. I do not want to hear anything behind me. I want to re-create a sound stage in its purest form. I want lead vocals to hover right under my rear-view mirror, but above the dash. I want all instruments/musicians to have their place on my dash. I want my stage depth to SOUND very deep, and I want the stage width to be beyond my side mirrors. I want to be able to hear when a certain drummer switches from wooden tip drum sticks, to plastic tip sticks. Through time alignment, I want my sub stage (kick drum etc) to sound like it is in front of me, when in reality my subs are behind me. Some guys like the surround sound effect, but I do not....I'll save that for watching a movie on my home theater.
But it all comes down to what you want to achieve with your system.
My problem is that I like both.
I am in the same boat as you. I do like a well defined stage but there are some songs that are meant to be heard like you were at a club surrounded by speakers. Not that I get to clubs any more at my age but damnit, if I were to go! Lol.
Seriously though, a DSP with easy to control presets or a HU with presets is the ticket. I know for me, I went from a DSP and RA3 to an aftermarket HU and couldn't be happier. I go to the seat position screen, tap driver, and I have "the stage" but I can also tap any other front or rear passenger (never happens) to give them the stage or just select all and have that surround sound.
My Mosconi has 4 presets and I plan to have a Me, Me and one friend, and a full truck tune. My rear fill are Dyn Esotar 650s so I can get pretty good sound in the back seats with the sail panel tweeters and the mids pointing up from the dash and reflecting off of the windshield.
I'm thinking preset #4 will be my "ok, I ****** it up three different times so going back to the drawing board" tune.
Question for the audio guru's in this thread. I've currently got some Polk Audio MM6501's and MM651's that I'd like to keep and put in my RAM 1500 sport. Crutchfield says they won't fit, but they also said they wouldn't fit in to the vehicle I currently have them in. Scosche makes an adapter bracket to put 6.5's in the 6.9 spots.
What I'd like to know is your opinions on replacing the 6x9's with the 6.5's or if should I stick with stock size when I upgrade my speakers?
Also, if using my MOMO's is fine, does the stock HU provide enough power to make them sound good or am I going to want hook up my JL Audio 300/4v2 amp?
On a side note, I saw some mention of the signal that the Alpine HU puts out being flat. Is that true or am I going to need a DSP to fix the signal?
First question is if you have the base system or the Alpine one?
Hey Dodge This.....start a new thread focusing on your subject so we don't get to far away from Kapt's subject thread. to the forum