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I hope you are still able to concentrate on your driving whilst listening to all that noise
After all is if a car not a music festival :thumbsdown:
 
As someone who doesn't even have the radio on never mind Cd's, and just enjoys the silence, I hope you don't pull up next to me with sound blasting out.
 
Baza said:
As someone who doesn't even have the radio on never mind Cd's, and just enjoys the silence, I hope you don't pull up next to me with sound blasting out.
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I only listen to it in my garage. :wink:
 
Boxertwin said:
It sounds pretty good. system is obviously still bedding in, but for a first drive / listen, it's excellent. The system sounds fairly well balanced between bass / mids / highs and the Bit 10 controller allows changing the subwoofer output as well as altering between two settings of time alignment - A / B - A being setup for driver and B being for when a passenger is onboard.
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Rather than having defeat-able t/a why not opt for two different eq/x-over settings. For all intents and purposes your passenger won't really care much for any alignment issues and you can have two settings perfect for different genres of music. (I.e. one eq smooth and relatively neutral and one with a punchier sub bass curve)

Just my £0.02
 
Not that big... :D there is a fishing lake right next to us, not into fishing myself. Just gotten into gardening at our new place...a lot of land to look after. :)
 
Looks very nice and I'll be doing similar to mine in a couple of months.
One question - is the sub meant to be running 'free air' or is it designed to run in a small enclosure?
 
:thumbsup: thats a quality setup... Looks stock too!

Nice to see the car bare aswell - can see how the roof bars meet with the sub frame!

With all that dynamat are the doors noticeably heavier now?




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Been over to Audiofile today to get the system tuned up after allowing two weeks for the speakers to bed in. The difference now is amazing, the Audison Bit 10 has been fully set up now and adjusted. The sound is now absolutely incredible, I was pleased when I got the system done, but now it is just simply excellent. Anyone in a essex fancies a listen, just let me know. :)
 
Did you also keep the 6" subs behind the seats in addition to the central sub you added?

I honestly wonder just how disappointing the OEM systems sound, even the premium one. Of course we all have different standards and expectations for such things, and what sounds good poodling about town with the roof up will sound considerably un-good at 80 top-down (if it sounds at-all...). It's one thing to demand a loud, clear soundstage with lots of detail in the highs and punchy, dry bass and another to get a shrill distorted mess with nasty rumbling lows that sound like so much farting, lol.

I'll definitely be upgrading the Professional system to Premium as a matter of principle, and I'll probably be satisfied overall. The car's engine and exhaust sound great after all...
 
Visionist said:
...I honestly wonder just how disappointing the OEM systems sound....
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Agreed, this is the one thing I'm seriously disappointed about, but I couldn't justify the kind of money that's gone into this setup... :( Great writeup.
 
No the 6 inch subs were disconnected as they didn't really add much to the sound. The single 10 inch JL Audio sub gives just the right amount without being overpowering.
 
I'm curious...

If I wanted to add a 10" Sub to my already very good 14 speaker setup, where could I tap into to get the signal?

Anyone have any ideas?
 
A final update, after a month or so, I was unhappy with resonating from the shelf, so gave Audiofile a call, they asked me to come back in and let them have a look. Car was in for half a day and they took the shelf out, added more dynamat and it turns out the resonating was coming from where the shelf was resting on the metal, causing vibation. All sorted and sounding good.

System is fully bedded in now and sounds pretty good.
 
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