Hey, Got my fabia new morel Speakers and alpine amplifiers with Image dynamics subwoofer. This has really transformed the car and added a reason for me to find a long way home. The sound is awesome, crystal clear and listen to def lepard is really deafening
It feels you sitting in a live concert with soft bass flowing through your ears. Truly worth it. I think this car is one of the best in car acoustics and sound really beautiful.
Here's the setup:
Front : Morel Dotech ovation 6
Rear : Morel Pulse 5 1/4 Coax.
Sub: Image Dynamics 10" V2 IDQ 2 ohm ( connecting in series for 4 ohm)
Amplifier : Alpine V POWER MRP550 ( 90x4 / 250x2)
Kenwood 2 channel.
Equalizer : Kicker
Power cables : ground zero
Front speakers are added in stock location, had to add a spacer to the front and rear doors and is being powered by Alpine front 2 channel amplifiers.
Rear speakers are 2 way Pulse series coax 5'1/4 powered by 2 channel kenwood amplifier.
Sub is wired in series for 4 ohm and is being powered Alpine rear 2 channel under bridge mode.
Whats the kicker eq doing ? Well since the stock head unit doesn't have the line output so got 1 line output convertor connected to Kicker eq which has 3 line output. So, now I can control my fader through it and also have sub level controller. Though is leave the equalisation off, can put on to add some depth to the sound.
TUNING:
Well am driving the front speakers under flat setting. I was told to keep the setting on the highpass filter on the amp but prefer flat as getting better midbass from speakers. Wanted to check the amp has frequency setting, does that really work only for high pass and low pass filter or can it work for flat setting as well? ALso, with the help of the eq which has some Xover on/off I can get to cut off the bass incase I put the sub on.
Have kept the tweeter level to -3db on xover on component. It has a setting of -3,0,3db. Wanna know whats the difference in these ? How do they help? Is it advisable to keep the setting to highpass then flat?
Rear coax speakers, well the kenwood amplifier has only the gain setting and no other setting so in any case am using the rear speakers as fillers with the front for better imaging and soundstage. Also, the tweeters can be adjusted by rotating it to get better off axis response.
Sub have kept it on LP with 75hz frq. As of now have the sub in a temprorary box which is a sealed box at .80 cu.ft so making a new box myself with .45 cu.ft as the bass sounds little loose right now.
Have used scouche sound deading for front and rear doors. But, could manage to put it just behind and around the midbass area. as it doesn't have much of opening. For the sub area in boot have used armacell deadening in the tyre well and on the trunk wall.
SOUND:
In the end the sound is nice, clean, with good mids and vocals coming. Found the speakers having bit more of mids as such but sounds good. The bass out of the comps and coax is also really good. Don't feel the need of having the sub. Tweeter on the front mounted on the A piller gives crystal clear highs with no distortion or harsh, nice. Overall feels like the sound coming from the centre of the dash board and the rear speakers gives that effect of listening to a live music all around. The subs well sounds good and fast but have to wait until the new enclosure gets ready.
The Sound from the speakers when I played the song from POISEN called "EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN", is awesome. Got to hear beats I missed on listening to it on other speakers at home or in any other car. Every little thing could be heard from it. The bass was nice from them and the highs coming out was like adding richness to the sound. Really liked it so much that played the song quite a few times.
I wanted to check I am getting the accelator noise as an when I raise. Could this be a issue with the earthing? have checked the RCs, don't seems they have problem. What are the reasons for getting this sound? How can it be rectified?
Also, had to add a switch to put the amp on/off as it doesnt happen along with the headunit on and off. I really don't like this idea of having on/off switch for the amp. Is there no way i can get the amp on/off along with the headunit itself?
Have also called for the JL audio CL441 dsp, should be getting it in a month after which will remove the KICKER EQdsp.
I am really pleased with the sound which is loud enough to be heard in the car. Accept that pedal noise. Otherwise its just great.
Cheers!