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<blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 7010269" data-attributes="member: 549629">You are correct, Im not very familiar with the MS-8 at all. I will say though, Ive sat in some (ok, many) very very good sounding cars, including many top ranking SQ competitor&#039;s vehicles, that only used one 32-band EQ per side (left and right, not even per channel). So Im skeptical that hundreds of bands are a requirement for high fidelity mobile sound. But yes, certainly in those competition vehicles the install also played a role in reducing the necessity for lots and lots of processing (speaker placement mainly). Maybe because the ms-8 adjusts automatically, having hundreds of bands is a positive, but I suspect for most enthusiasts, even fairly serious ones, its over kill. Hell the 701&#039;s 32 bands per speaker is overkill for most people. The only way I see having more bands of adjustments would provide any significant improvement would be if the mic and auto-adjusting is very very good. Otherwise, most people will be chasing their tails trying to adjust bands that are a 1/4-octave apart (or less).Thanks for the info tempest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="audioholic, post: 7010269, member: 549629"] You are correct, Im not very familiar with the MS-8 at all. I will say though, Ive sat in some (ok, many) very very good sounding cars, including many top ranking SQ competitor's vehicles, that only used one 32-band EQ per side (left and right, not even per channel). So Im skeptical that hundreds of bands are a requirement for high fidelity mobile sound. But yes, certainly in those competition vehicles the install also played a role in reducing the necessity for lots and lots of processing (speaker placement mainly). Maybe because the ms-8 adjusts automatically, having hundreds of bands is a positive, but I suspect for most enthusiasts, even fairly serious ones, its over kill. Hell the 701's 32 bands per speaker is overkill for most people. The only way I see having more bands of adjustments would provide any significant improvement would be if the mic and auto-adjusting is very very good. Otherwise, most people will be chasing their tails trying to adjust bands that are a 1/4-octave apart (or less). Thanks for the info tempest. [/QUOTE]

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