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<blockquote data-quote="Octave" data-source="post: 8320310" data-attributes="member: 633707"><p>The center piece actually floats above the Alcantara field.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101461_zps3da4d171.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101461_zps3da4d171.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>From this view you can see were the shape of the center piece was derived. The intended look was to follow the dash lines so all the lines allow your eye to follow from one to the other.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101462_zps50d65799.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101462_zps50d65799.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>With the system lighting on you can see why the center piece was floating because it is now floating on light. The edge around the subwoofer and Mosconi lights up too. I do apologize for the crappy pic....time for a new camera I think.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101463_zps597b277c.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101463_zps597b277c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Now with the system description done time to talk about how it sounds. Given Vince is interested in doing some sound comps I did 2 different tunes so I'll give you my impressions on both the competition tune and daily driver tune.</p><p></p><p>The competition tune is up first. For this tune I turned off the rears and concentrated on the front stage. At first dealing with the small cabin was tuff tuff tuff. I couldn't get the car to image for the life of me. I spent one day playing with it....I finally threw my hands up and went home. Came in the next day just looking to play with it because I didn't have much time to play with it but the time I had was just right. I don't know what I adjusted or what I shifted but I started to make great head way on tuning it out. In the end I ended up with a car that imaged really really good. The stage is about 1" off the pillars with the height at the rear view mirror but it has great depth reaching out to over the hood. Imaging wise this little car will shock you given it OEM speaker locations. Thank you BMW for putting the mids in the kicks. The center image is tight to the middle and stays there. Tonality is pleasant without the famous Focal bright tweeter (I know how to tune). The only thing I wish was that there was a bit more punch in the midbass but the mids are 5.25" so asking a lot of them and bringing the crossover point on the subwoofer up to compensate draws ear to the rear but I found a happy medium. The subwoofer fills the cabin with great well defined low lows. With some fine tuning after break in this car has a lot of competition potential.</p><p></p><p>Now to the daily driver tune.....the rears get turned on. I was expecting to be walking into hell because I have sworn off doing rear fill of any kind but yet again this car surprised me. I started off with the competition tune as a base and started to tune in the rears. Thankfully it wasn't the headache I thought it was going to be. In the end what I got was a tune like the competition tune but with more output and a little less refinement. The imaging was still there but the center image would bleed a bit side to side and given the fill your gets pulled back ever so slightly at certain frequencies. Overall this tune is much more fun tune to listen to because it just gets after it and that's more what Vince looks for in a system. I think after break in I may have to look at the daily driver tune as a basis for a competition tune.</p><p></p><p>In every install I look to deliver great attention to detail and with Vince being a HIGHLY detailed person I think I delivered a system that hit all the points set for for the build. So much so we have the next build already scheduled to be started after the first of the year. A little teaser........it's getting a full Sinfoni system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Octave, post: 8320310, member: 633707"] The center piece actually floats above the Alcantara field. [URL="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101461_zps3da4d171.jpg.html"][IMG]http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101461_zps3da4d171.jpg[/IMG][/URL] From this view you can see were the shape of the center piece was derived. The intended look was to follow the dash lines so all the lines allow your eye to follow from one to the other. [URL="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101462_zps50d65799.jpg.html"][IMG]http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101462_zps50d65799.jpg[/IMG][/URL] With the system lighting on you can see why the center piece was floating because it is now floating on light. The edge around the subwoofer and Mosconi lights up too. I do apologize for the crappy pic....time for a new camera I think. [URL="http://s1319.photobucket.com/user/octaveaudio1/media/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101463_zps597b277c.jpg.html"][IMG]http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t676/octaveaudio1/BMW/Vince%20Z3M/VinceZ3101463_zps597b277c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Now with the system description done time to talk about how it sounds. Given Vince is interested in doing some sound comps I did 2 different tunes so I'll give you my impressions on both the competition tune and daily driver tune. The competition tune is up first. For this tune I turned off the rears and concentrated on the front stage. At first dealing with the small cabin was tuff tuff tuff. I couldn't get the car to image for the life of me. I spent one day playing with it....I finally threw my hands up and went home. Came in the next day just looking to play with it because I didn't have much time to play with it but the time I had was just right. I don't know what I adjusted or what I shifted but I started to make great head way on tuning it out. In the end I ended up with a car that imaged really really good. The stage is about 1" off the pillars with the height at the rear view mirror but it has great depth reaching out to over the hood. Imaging wise this little car will shock you given it OEM speaker locations. Thank you BMW for putting the mids in the kicks. The center image is tight to the middle and stays there. Tonality is pleasant without the famous Focal bright tweeter (I know how to tune). The only thing I wish was that there was a bit more punch in the midbass but the mids are 5.25" so asking a lot of them and bringing the crossover point on the subwoofer up to compensate draws ear to the rear but I found a happy medium. The subwoofer fills the cabin with great well defined low lows. With some fine tuning after break in this car has a lot of competition potential. Now to the daily driver tune.....the rears get turned on. I was expecting to be walking into hell because I have sworn off doing rear fill of any kind but yet again this car surprised me. I started off with the competition tune as a base and started to tune in the rears. Thankfully it wasn't the headache I thought it was going to be. In the end what I got was a tune like the competition tune but with more output and a little less refinement. The imaging was still there but the center image would bleed a bit side to side and given the fill your gets pulled back ever so slightly at certain frequencies. Overall this tune is much more fun tune to listen to because it just gets after it and that's more what Vince looks for in a system. I think after break in I may have to look at the daily driver tune as a basis for a competition tune. In every install I look to deliver great attention to detail and with Vince being a HIGHLY detailed person I think I delivered a system that hit all the points set for for the build. So much so we have the next build already scheduled to be started after the first of the year. A little teaser........it's getting a full Sinfoni system. [/QUOTE]
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