Epicenter

[headless 10+ year member]

I know many people who own one and have seen many in action and to me they are nothing more than a bass restoration box... Hell it even says that on the box and the epic itself.

Go read one of your friends' manual's and get back to me. You're right, it is a bass restoration device. You just don't understand how it works. The epicenter adds bass where there was previously none in the signal. This is a fact, and you can use any word to describe that process you'd like...the point is, you pass the epicenter a full range signal and it creates bass in the area you specify with the wide + sweep controls. It creates this bass from looking at the full range signal you pass it; if you pass it a crossed over signal, it simply has less data to work with...it'll still work, though, as long as your original source material has bass below that crossover point. If you pass it a crossed over signal it becomes an easy way to add massive amounts of low low freq bass to your existing sub signal. If the epicenter didn't actually add any bass to the frequency, only amplified existing bass frequencies, it'd just be an EQ. Which it isn't.

 

[B&R Innovation2 10+ year member]

I've run an epicenter for 3 years, and actually I took me about a year to realize I needed fullpass signals. Mine was beat up and had no instructions when I got it from some douche on the forum...so I hooked it up how it made sense too. Well I noticed on the 9515 a slightly tighter response on full lower spectrum songs, and that's important to enjoy the sub daily.

When I finally figured out from the the other owner of my old shop what I was doing wrong...that changed the beast. It still produced a nice signal at low cranking, but turning it up resulted in rediculousness. It was a neat toy to show off when I threw my SPL ports in, but for daily it really doesn't have a place unless you just NEED to have bass when you listen to any crappy song. I think there are better signal processing devices out there, but if you tune it just right and figure out how manipulating the HU's eqs affect the unit's output...it can compliment a system nicely. Having userpresets with different eq setups for differen types of music is pretty invaluable. I have seen them in SQ cars but the unit was pressing a small incabin 8" and more than anything it rose it's presence a tad and pulled the stage away from a trunk mounted 12, and placed it smack dab in your face...it was neat.

I recently lost my 8^3 per chamber box in my van and now my poor DD is living in 3cubes in a malibu trunk...but it's tuned nicely so it's still pretty cool. Epicenter is out though, I really think this is already a lot of system for a smaller car. But ya never know till you try it, so I probably will throw it in this week just to see how my car reacts.

 

[Hayabusa 10+ year member]

Go read one of your friends' manual's and get back to me. You're right, it is a bass restoration device. You just don't understand how it works. The epicenter adds bass where there was previously none in the signal. This is a fact, and you can use any word to describe that process you'd like...the point is, you pass the epicenter a full range signal and it creates bass in the area you specify with the wide + sweep controls. It creates this bass from looking at the full range signal you pass it; if you pass it a crossed over signal, it simply has less data to work with...it'll still work, though, as long as your original source material has bass below that crossover point. If you pass it a crossed over signal it becomes an easy way to add massive amounts of low low freq bass to your existing sub signal. If the epicenter didn't actually add any bass to the frequency, only amplified existing bass frequencies, it'd just be an EQ. Which it isn't.

I know what it is and I know what it does... Its only useful if you listen to a bunk of old music that was recorded in garbage quality. IMO it doesn't do much for new music if anything. I just say no to the sub stressor.

 

[headless 10+ year member]

I know what it is and I know what it does... Its only useful if you listen to a bunk of old music that was recorded in garbage quality. IMO it doesn't do much for new music if anything. I just say no to the sub stressor.

k, just as long as you've been enlightened //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

It was fun to torture my old shitty CVR 10'. I pulled mine out when i switched to a sealed 12w6