Recent content by yacob.naif

So..... I thought i had lucked out. I'm piecing together a new system, and i thought i was lucky enough to bypass any lengthy speaker-buying decisions, because i had found a pair of 720prs speakers for ~$240 shipped. Well, that was about 10 days ago, and i've yet to receive so much as a...

Thanks guys. I don't feel like soldering anything, so i'll probably just go to autozone or summit racing and see what they have in the way of a 12AWG run with an inline fuse holder already attached.

In my VW, the aftermarket wiring adaptors short out the diagnostic wire to constant +12v. I want to bypass the factory stereo wiring altogether and run new power and ground cables to the switched +12v fuse panel under the dash. What wiring gauge would you recommend, running a pioneer 3200bt...

Been out of the car audio loop for a while, here. I thought i had a hard decision to make, deciding between the spx-17pro and 720prs sets, but it turns out that was the EASY part. Now i've been trying to find a suitable amplifier, and i'm about at wits end. My original candidate was the...

I thought you were joking, but those specs look alright. cea2006, too

the alpines have 2v preouts. what's going on here? and i don't own/plan to own an ipod, so that's not a consideration. In fact, the only reason i'm considering a dvd unit rather than a cd unit is so i can load up a dvd with mp3's. A simple double-din cd unit is still in consideration.

you used to only be able to find cheap headunits in double-din, which is why almost everyone got the single din units, instead. Nowadays, tho, companies have begun making high-end double din headunits, because so many cars come with double din stereos from the factory, since gps units are...

I'm a little confused about the pioneer elite designation on their headunits. I'm converting (long time kenwood excellon user) and compared to the kenwood excellon designation, the pioneer premier designation doesn't seem to mean anything in terms of specs. There seem to be identical models of...

This just isn't true. The more metal in the solder, the more brittle it is, so the more likely it is to break under vibration. The more lead in the solder, the softer, and more durable, but the less conductive. A crimp not only has direct metal to metal transfer, but wont crack or break. In...

Soldering the terminals on isn't that time consuming. You can buy theser ready-made solder/flux pellets that you just put in the terminal, and heat the whole thing up with a torch. I prefer to crimp or use crimp-less terminals for vibration resistance, tho. Soldering is more important in...

Off-brand media often "borrows" media codes from name-brand media with the same speeds as the off-brand advertises. A lot of low low low low low junk media that ADVERTISES 16x will be marked as mitsubishi (verbatim) so that it will burn at 16x, when in reality, it's probably closer to 8x (or...

I use TY dvd's, but those lacquered cd's aren't very durable. I prefer to use verbatims, they at least have labels.

the new pioneers have something similar, called "Advanced Sound Retriever" The x-fi crystalizer is nice, but it's definitely just a low-freq boost.

i've seen the humidity completely disintegrate the surrounds in just the matter of a summer. it's definitely something worth looking into.

It's one of those ready-made excuses, but the economy is kind of prohibitive towards moving these days. And home audio's great, but having something that you can enjoy on a daily basis, in an ever changing environment is something special. Who doesn't love blasting some tunes, crusing through...