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Norah Jones' Come Away With Me and Diana Krall's The Girl in the Other Room, for starters. Very well-mastered albums and will give you a good idea of how your female vocals will turn out. Those tend to be harder to reproduce accurately than most. Otherwise, there's a lot of good vocal...

Be careful on the power rating of head units. They may be CEA-compliant, but they're not necessarily accurate depictions of how much clean power they'll put out. That Kenwood KMM is, at least in my opinion, merely "okay" in comparison to the rest. Those 2.5V preouts seem meager at best. If...

I, personally, would recommend going for the Clarion CZ505. It's just a hair out of your budget, but the frustration saved by having the BT mic built into the head unit itself means one less wire to figure out how to run around your car. 4V preouts on 3 channel pairs of RCA, HD Radio, and aptX...

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We get very similar at the northern 5/405 split. Luckily, I can take surface streets in. To the OP, try to ponder over my previous questions. I've run my fair share of subs over the years and listened to a lot of systems as well. Would love to be able to start pointing you in the right direction.

Oh geez...you're out past Marysville. Not too shabby.

Lynnwood area. You?

GCON is in the redesign/prototyping process for the next gen. Won't be able to get your hands on one right now anyway. If you're going to compare like-for-like on the SA-8, a more direct comparison would be SSA's F8L that just got released.

Hanging out at work and blasting some RTJ, much to my coworkers' chagrin.

On the DSP end, Helix's models are pretty dang hard to beat with their simple UI. On the set-and-forget end, I wouldn't discount JBL's MS-8 (when you can find one). For components, everybody's going to make their own recommendations. Once you go the DSP route, you're going to find that options...

Sorry for being blunt, but broad question is broad. There's a lot of considerations to take into account. For instance: 1. What's your budget? 2. What are your expectations with this new sub? Saying you're looking for a SQ sub is still a bit broad. Are you willing to sacrifice some low-end...

Blast from the past has arrived. Zapco has a funny way of making that happen. Any word on whether the USB ports possess enough power to keep a spinning external HDD running? I could really see this working out as a stealth option with a MASSIVE library of Hi-Res tracks. This might have to...

Here's my recommendation for a full system that's as close to $500 as possible: Deck: Clarion CZ702 Single-DIN In-Dash Bluetooth Car Stereo w/ Pandora Amp: Precision Power PPI i640.5 iON 640W 5-Channel Class-D Amplifier Speakers: Crescendo Audio Sub: SSA Store - SoundQubed HDS212 12 INCH...

The fact of the matter is this: quality wire costs money and, oftentimes, costs more than what most of us cheap-asses are willing to pay. Why pay $300/roll for Shok OFC when I can get the same from AT/SHCA for half the price? We hosted a thread over on MAF that gave some serious perspective on...

My concern is this: use some quality OFC/CCA/whatever that has an honest strand count and watch what happens when you try to strip off some insulation. Any Knu, Stinger HPM, Shok, or XS I've played around with kept its shape. Sky High? It flowers out, which is indicative of a lot of air gap...