Recent content by chazzy

I got the Pioneer. After 10 min of playing with it, it looks and sounds like a good unit. The bass button acts as expected. There's also a loudness setting buried in a menu. Haven't dug too deep into the menus or app yet. There's some crackling in one speaker that I think is a bad solder in the...

Looks like Smart Sync is the replacement for Arc. I can still find some Arc-equipped units for sale. Any idea if Smart Sync is better?

Looking for one. It seems most are cheap chinese things that don't really explain how they work. I want one that will hold Apple's MagSafe charger and mount via glue/screws to the dash somewhere... maybe a short goose-neck thing.

Looking for a new head unit. My requirements are pretty simple: cheap (but decent), RGB, BT, and loudness button. I currently have an Alpine UTE-73BT in my beater truck, but the loudness button is worthless. It doesn't boost lows/highs, but cycles through my set EQ and 3 preset EQs that sound...

Rethinking it, dynamat cars are space restrictive. I have basically no restrictios behind the wall. Could roughen up the fiberglass and glue something dense to it. Thick piece of abs/acrylic/some plastic sounds good. cementitious construction material like hardie board or something bathroom related?

I'm replacing the speakers in an old sailboat with a pair of Rockford RM1562. They're mounted under the seat and are essentially infinite baffle... the seat is open to the cabin below. I'm only wanting to stiffen/deaden the fairly flat, 1/8-1/4" thick fiberglass panes that they're mounted in...

I may get a pair of his 6" woofers for the back. It's an extended cab pickup so the enclosure won't be as bad as a door with holes in it. Highs are really not important back there, I may get some aditional thump-a-lump, and I get to support him.

I have no clue who Eric Stevens is, but it sounds like i should. Can you give the cliffnotes for the ID history?

Excellent! It sounds like notheing has changed since I last deemed them my favorite sub brand. The design sure hasn't which could be good or bad. I'll give their coax speakers a try.

I think that's something I read about their amps. Is it a brag to be owned by power bass? I imagine it's not cause it's not on their site. Any idea when that purchase happened?

When I try to research these guys, I can only find like 3 mentions that aren't 10+ yrs old. About 10 years ago, I had an ID sub and Zap amp cause that's what I deemed the best for the buck (SQ mainly). Are they still good? Zapco seems to have left the US and both just has no presence on the...