Dumdum
Senior Member
So I asked if anyone wanted to see my car audio build and got a few yes answers, so here we go.... Hopefully this is ok in here as its
I will be building a relatively high end system for EMMA car audio sound quality competition.
My background is I am a multi time up and European champion and record holder in dB drag (how loud is your subwoofer<s> competition) but I’ve always been involved in car audio and cars one way or another and my career has revolves around being a car technician/mechanic and auto electrician and now work gainfully for Nottinghamshire police as the force in car technology engineer, so daily I install/fix ANPR, tetra radio installations, trackers and anything 12v they want doing in a variety of vehicles.
My base vehicle is a Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 petrol, it was chose purely for its quality’s for doing competition.
so for a start my kit list...
Currently I have an alpine source unit which has served me well but in terms of detail and frequency response it got showed up badly by a topping and my iPhone XR, now I have acquired a clarion nx807e double din with Apple car play, Bluetooth, cd/dvd and most important a 96khz optical output so I can go digital from cd and phone to processor.
So the processor is a Helix DSP pro 2, optical and coax in, also usb or Bluetooth streaming (both of those are with hec extension cards), also 8 channels of analogue in, then 10 channels of outputs that are fully configurable, 30 band of EQ for each channel (shelf filters, parametric, graphic, all pass are all doable) high and low pass crossovers, phase in 40 steps from 0-180, and a phase 0/180 swap button also. Also does time alignment in 0.1ms (0.4cm roughly) steps which is essential in cars
to be continued...
I will be building a relatively high end system for EMMA car audio sound quality competition.
My background is I am a multi time up and European champion and record holder in dB drag (how loud is your subwoofer<s> competition) but I’ve always been involved in car audio and cars one way or another and my career has revolves around being a car technician/mechanic and auto electrician and now work gainfully for Nottinghamshire police as the force in car technology engineer, so daily I install/fix ANPR, tetra radio installations, trackers and anything 12v they want doing in a variety of vehicles.
My base vehicle is a Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 petrol, it was chose purely for its quality’s for doing competition.
so for a start my kit list...
Currently I have an alpine source unit which has served me well but in terms of detail and frequency response it got showed up badly by a topping and my iPhone XR, now I have acquired a clarion nx807e double din with Apple car play, Bluetooth, cd/dvd and most important a 96khz optical output so I can go digital from cd and phone to processor.
So the processor is a Helix DSP pro 2, optical and coax in, also usb or Bluetooth streaming (both of those are with hec extension cards), also 8 channels of analogue in, then 10 channels of outputs that are fully configurable, 30 band of EQ for each channel (shelf filters, parametric, graphic, all pass are all doable) high and low pass crossovers, phase in 40 steps from 0-180, and a phase 0/180 swap button also. Also does time alignment in 0.1ms (0.4cm roughly) steps which is essential in cars
to be continued...