Large system install, worth changing head unit?

[Eestee70]

Congrats on a finished build.....Just curious tho. with the amount of time and money spent, what type of tuning was used. RTA, T/A. Didn’t see any mention of that in previous post unless I missed it.

 

[Bigtymes]

Congrats on a finished build.....Just curious tho. with the amount of time and money spent, what type of tuning was used. RTA, T/A. Didn’t see any mention of that in previous post unless I missed it.

It took entirely too long really. Altogether I'd say about 3 weeks that they had the truck total. No idea on cost, but I'd say somewhere around 8k. I had my girls car done also. Hers was about $1,200 and all I furnished was the amp and wiring kit. Mine I furnished everything except the amp rack, head unit, and dsp. But with equipment included I'd say I dropped about $8k - $8,500 on mine. Everything I furnished was below retail though. About half retail honestly. I'm not sure what he used to tune it. Had a mic in the truck and 2 laptops running. One doing eq and the other doing frequencies.

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[Eestee70]

Good deal, I hope you have music listening euphoria in your truck for many years to come

 

[Bigtymes]

Good deal, I hope you have music listening euphoria in your truck for many years to come

It truly has already broadened my horizon in music. Stuff I would hit skip on with a stock system I have found myself hitting repeat on several times. My buddy said the same thing. We were enjoying stuff neither of us have ever listened to and never saw ourselves listening to. Pretty cool.

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[Eestee70]

That’s what an SQ system is supposed to do, emerse you in a musical experience. It doesn’t make you feel like you’re listening to the “radio” but like you’re listening to a musical performance.

 

[Bigtymes]

That’s what an SQ system is supposed to do, emerse you in a musical experience. It doesn’t make you feel like you’re listening to the “radio” but like you’re listening to a musical performance.

No lie, he goes to concerts all the time. Most of anyone I've ever met. He said it blew any concert he has ever been to out of the water. He's not big into bass per say, in cars anyway, but he said it's cause he's never heard it like in my truck. There is plenty of bass that you can hear, feel, and see shaking stuff. But it doesn't over power the music and lyrics, all of which are crystal clear. That was his description. And I don't even have the best speakers. I have the access series focal. Going to upgrade them later this year most likely.

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[Eestee70]

I love focal speakers, which models will you do next? I am running the Focal Utopia Be No. 7 Active 3 way set in my truck.

 

[Bigtymes]

I love focal speakers, which models will you do next? I am running the Focal Utopia Be No. 7 Active 3 way set in my truck.

I bet those sound amazing! I was looking at some of those on ebay. I can't afford them from a retail store. Lol. I was thinking maybe the krx3. But I may go all out on the utopia set. Definitely not going Ultima. Those are like 15-20k.

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[Eestee70]

Believe me, hold off if you can and wait to get the Utopia’s. I went through the progression from the krx2 then krx3 and then finallly the Utopia’s. Sound is unreal when tuned properly. I’ll find a few pics and post so you can see my setup.

 

[Eestee70]

 

[adrianp89]

4 way front stage?

 

[Bigtymes]

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I don't get it. My phone hardly ever loads the pictures. Didn't these. Any suggestions?

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[TomT]

4 way front stage?

I was going to ask the same thing.

 

[Eestee70]

T No it’s three way. I built the pods for the doors and didn’t like the imaging so I moved the mids to the factory location. I now use the pods for an led light Focal symbol at night

 

[TomT]

@Eestee70 how hard was it to get those tweets into the sails? I have 1” tweeters in there right now but am considering trying the Audiofrog 1.5” ones.

 

[Eestee70]

@TomT. It wasn’t to bad. Because of the curves in the sail panel there is a small gap between the tweet mount and the panel but not enough to be concerned about.