I'm beginning to think that the outcome that I'm aiming for isn't the same as everyone else's.
My first goal is for this to be loud. Not just normal daily driver loud, but obnoxiously loud. Like shake your home foundation before I turn the corner loud.
My guess is that once you move above a certain SPL level, it's going to be very difficult to hear the nuanced impurities whether you have trained ears or not. And I'm pretty sure that my ears are grossly untrained.
There's been a few times when I didn't have rear speakers, even with sound systems, and I hated it. I couldn't wait to save enough money to get them.
I like to be able to adjust the system while I'm cruising. I've had a bunch of seven band or 13 band EQ's and I know what they do and what they don't do. So that's definitely staying.
You guys have given me loads of information about how a DSP works and what the expected intent for it is and I truly appreciate it. All of you are awesome for taking the time to respond to my post and giving me valuable information that I can use moving forward.
But I'm probably going to do something different with it. Rather than change the plans for the system that I plan on putting in my car, I'm going to use it to enhance the system to the best of it's capabilities. It's not going to be perfect. But over time I'll play with it, see how it works. I understand the value of having one and it's legit, so I'm gonna use it.
I even looked up information on a couple of things that we didn't discuss in this thread like beaming and comb filtering. And figured out how phase shifting actually works. It's pretty awesome when you know the basis for it.
So I'm going to install everything, make sure that it works, and see what happens.
If it sounds like ass, I'll give you guys an honest look the results. I'll do the work, graph the responses, screenshot them, and upload them as part of the post.
That way everyone in the know and everyone who needs to learn will have a set of data compiled by an inexperienced person that can be compared to the optimal data set that you guys are describing. And you can say "see I told you so", we'll all laugh about it, and I'll keep working to correct it. Because I honestly don't think it's one way or the other I think it's somewhere in the middle.