How goes it? Weather here has been crappy to say the least. If I can get a break in the weather later today, I'm going to try to get what measurements I need to order the gear for my truck. Hopefully next week the weather will be better so I can start doing some work. I'll be ordering a new battery for under the hood, a second big battery for the back of the truck which will give me a total of 4 extra batteries back there. I'll be ordering three 12" Phoenix Gold Elite dual 2 ohm subs. Each sub will be wired in series to 4 ohms and the three 4 ohm loads will be wired in parallel back to 1.33 ohms. I'll be ordering a Phoenix Gold Elite.1 amp and an Elite.4 amp also. I'm stoked. I also plan to order some of the Stinger 9000 series RCAs. :)
I don't suppose anybody has any insight as to in-dash units with the highest quality DACs? Seems nearly any deck over $250 uses Burr Brown DACs these days. Those used to be a commodity. Are there any DACs used better than the Burr Browns? Those used to be all the rage. I'm heavily considering using a Sony head unit in the new build. I'm looking at a
Sony XAV-712HD. The specs don't specify what DAC it has nor did the manual. I asked my rep and he said Burr Brown. I hope he wasn't just making that up. Looks like a nice deck anyway. I've used the 602BT in customer's cars and liked it. That's the model down from the 712HD. Sony makes a NAV addon too that I'd proably get. I like having NAV built into the dash. It's a Tom Tom unit, which I also like.
I've been talking to Michael Singer about an alternator. So hopefully I'll have an alternator on it's way soon also.
The only other thing is the front speakers. I was going to go with the
38th Anniversary Edition set by Morel, but they're $3.500 retail. I think maybe I'll just go with the
Elate Titanium 3-way instead at $2,000. This would also make it cheaper and easier to do a center channel, which I'm still wanting, but can't make up my mind about.
Also, the more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if going with 4 of the Elite 12s wouldn't make more sense. I always liked the novelty of 3, but I'm not so much building this system for novelty. I don't know. Just striking up conversation I suppose.
I hope everyone is doing well this morning.
How goes it? Weather here has been crappy to say the least. If I can get a break in the weather later today, I'm going to try to get what measurements I need to order the gear for my truck. Hopefully next week the weather will be better so I can start doing some work. I'll be ordering a new battery for under the hood, a second big battery for the back of the truck which will give me a total of 4 extra batteries back there. I'll be ordering three 12" Phoenix Gold Elite dual 2 ohm subs. Each sub will be wired in series to 4 ohms and the three 4 ohm loads will be wired in parallel back to 1.33 ohms. I'll be ordering a Phoenix Gold Elite.1 amp and an Elite.4 amp also. I'm stoked. I also plan to order some of the Stinger 9000 series RCAs. :)
I don't suppose anybody has any insight as to in-dash units with the highest quality DACs? Seems nearly any deck over $250 uses Burr Brown DACs these days. Those used to be a commodity. Are there any DACs used better than the Burr Browns? Those used to be all the rage. I'm heavily considering using a Sony head unit in the new build. I'm looking at a [url=http://store.sony.com/smartphone-connected-7-av-receiver-zid27-XAV712HD/cat-27-catid-all-car-stereo-receivers]Sony XAV-712HD[/url]. The specs don't specify what DAC it has nor did the manual. I asked my rep and he said Burr Brown. I hope he wasn't just making that up. Looks like a nice deck anyway. I've used the 602BT in customer's cars and liked it. That's the model down from the 712HD. Sony makes a NAV addon too that I'd proably get. I like having NAV built into the dash. It's a Tom Tom unit, which I also like.
I've been talking to Michael Singer about an alternator. So hopefully I'll have an alternator on it's way soon also.
The only other thing is the front speakers. I was going to go with the [url=http://www.morelhifi.com/car-audio/38-limited-edition-2-way-3-way]38th Anniversary Edition[/url] set by Morel, but they're $3.500 retail. I think maybe I'll just go with the [url=http://www.morelhifi.com/car-audio/elate-titanium-2-way-3-way]Elate Titanium 3-way[/url] instead at $2,000. This would also make it cheaper and easier to do a center channel, which I'm still wanting, but can't make up my mind about.
Also, the more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if going with 4 of the Elite 12s wouldn't make more sense. I always liked the novelty of 3, but I'm not so much building this system for novelty. I don't know. Just striking up conversation I suppose.
I hope everyone is doing well this morning.