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What would you say are the main differences you have noticed between your car stereo and your home stereo regarding sound quality and sound experience ? Which one is more enjoyable for you ?

How do you make a phase alignment ? My DSP comes with several options for phase (11.25°, 22.5°, 45°, etc), but I do not understand how it works

What head unit you have and what kind of analysis is that ?

How do you equalize your car stereo ? A flat curve all along the frequency range with a RTA microphone and DSP ?

Have you ever considered to customize earplugs for music listening ? You would have to go through an audiometric test first, and based on the results an specialist would built earplugs that filter out frequencies, attenuating those that bother you the most, and maybe increasing others. The...

When you play your car stereo harder and harder, do you stop turning up the volume when your ears start to hurt ? Do you thing this pain comes from the low, medium or high frequency notes ?

Most of my music is the result of 35 years or so collecting CD's, and the rest of it have been downloaded from different websites. I'm always after the best sound quality possible, so most of my tracks are in WAV format, some are FLAC, and a few of them are mp3. My collection is almost complete...

In this case maybe you should consider Dynaudio speakers. They are usually regarded as neutral-true to sound speakers, something not too bright, but not too dull either.

How would you classify Audison tweeters regarding harshness ? For instance, I have read many reviews for tweeters, and many times I have found that Focal tweeters are harsh, Dynaudio are neutral, whereas Morel are smooth, so they are in a descending scale regarding harshness. Where would you...

What is that ? I also suspect this is a cabin problem. My woofers are 6.5" Dynaudio Esotec located at the front doors, and the tweeters are Audison Voce located on the dash, a little off-axis, so it is a good quality equipment. My car is a Honda Civic 2010 sedan. Anyone else having tuning...

They are WAV files from original brand new CD's

I agree

Have you found rock and pop music that is inherently harsh, meaning, no matter the quality of your stereo components, and how good it is tuned, this particular songs always sound harsh? I have some examples of this: Dude looks like a Lady (Aerosmith), Angel (Aerosmith), Whole lotta love (Led...

Did you ever find a head unit that was to blame for a bad sound quality ?

Check with the amp. manufacturer. Some amplifiers come with a setting procedure based on a sine wave that you can download. Otherwise, set the amplifier gain to just 30% of its maximum, and turn up the volume of the head unit. That way you take maximum advantage of the head unit pre-amplifier.