unless the op is audio inclined I would not recommend that head unit to someone who is just looking for a basic head unit as it is a pretty complicated head unit to operate.
OEM headunits naturally add distortion. Thats why you think an OEM headunit has more bass. Its not because its EQ'd. A factory headunit does around 4-8wrms per speaker in a non premium situation. Any aftermarket headunit thats not Pyle, Boss, Pyramid, etc. will put out more than 8wrms. Any decent aftermarket HU will sound better than OEM. Now whether or not you consider $100 headunit decent is a whole different story.
They actully are EQed. That's what the useless JL clean sweep does. Takes all of it out. EQed or tuned however you want to call it. Some even have a decent T/A built in.
You are dense. The cleansweep is a Line Out Converter that introduces its own EQ and digital processing.
Negative. The clean sweep wipes out the factory EQ and returns it to flat. The DSP one has a few presets.
Thanks for agreeing. Do you understand how anything works? You cant just plug in an RCA and return a physical device that "EQ's" and make it disappear. Your telling me the JL Cleansweep can be installed in any OEM situation and completely wipe out a factory EQ no matter what the settings? That is pretty magical. Devices like this introduce their own processing, they dont remove it. Pretty hard to remove an EQ that doesnt exist. Any bassbox, clean sweep, or device that claims to boost bass in songs that dont have strong baselines all they do is introduce distortion. Distortion is not the same as EQ.
What I can tell you is he uses one in his car. Factory deck. I don't know how it did it but he read the signal level RTA and it showed flat. So yes it took the factory EQ and wiped it out. It overrides the factory EQ. It did not look like it did pre clean sweep. So yes I'm saying the stock deck had a pre programmed EQ. Get off my nuts
I use a usb hooked up to a newer gen ipod and it sounds great to me. i also have a very clean Hu too.
So your JL buddy said the clean sweep is useless but you say it works? Interesting.
It does what it supposed to which is useless without a way to measure acoustics. You have been proven wrong with facts not opinion. Go back to your droid forum.
I would disagree with steering clear. It's pretty well known that for the money, the cz702 is one of the best performing HUs on the market, but I will agree it can be confusing to operate. I'm barely adequate at car audio, but I still need a lot of info to try and work with the band eq that's offered with the HU. Also, it's much more geared for running active as well, I've found it very restrictive with HPF and LPF when running passive. If anyone has tips on setting the eq, please pm me!!
