Yaris Sedan Deadening and Sound system upgrade

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by derickveliz2

As a designer and if it was for me, I would line it up the left knobs on the left side, but that's just me.


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And would leave the right side to put my cell phone!

Some thing like this:



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[derickveliz2]

I was listening to the IASCA disk this morning, I remember the first few times I went through each track, and said: "boring songs... what's so special about it? and 2 or 3 tracks that would make my speakers in the doors "SHOCK" like crazy, never even realized what was going on on each track, even listening to the instructions made no sense to me, this CD was supposed to be a super disk for SQ music...

Now I realized everything that I was missing, it's a pleasure to go through each song and test track, feel and almost see every single detail, just by the fact that I don't listen to my speakers I just can't hear the speakers, the sound most of the time is coming from the windshield, like magic, like a ghost ; some times I get a little "WOW!" what was that? and I guess I'm a big fan of a phenomenon known as the “precedence effect” or Haas effect..




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[sqcomp]

^ Here comes the history of musical recording! Quadrophonic stereo..."The QS matrix has been found to offer the advantages of excellent diagonal separation and stereo compatibility, and although the adjacent speaker separation is only 3 dB, this symmetrical distribution produces more stable quadraphonic images."



Thank you Sansui!

Some might be suprised that this level of quality has been around since the late 40's and then developed to a higher level in the 70's.

[derickveliz2]

And comes with a Microwave on the top right LOL

I wish I could set up a home Hifi system at home. and time to enjoy it.

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[sqcomp]

Well...don't tell my wife, but since she's moving to GWU for 15 months...I've got a plan to move my two handmade towers from the spare bedroom downstairs to the living room. That includes my old school pre amp, old school 2 x 150 amplifier, and a nice little DVD player.

*wringing hands*

I can hook up the computer to the DVD player via HDMI...let the modded music files commence!

[sqcomp]

got a great amount of work done on the car today. I personally handed off the amplifiers, the DRC for the Bit One, and the dash panels to the painter today. I should see those back in a week.

The driver's side mid enclosure is re-aimed and the amp rack has a sub panel built and routered for some nice clean lines. Later this week I'll test fit the dummy amps in and make any adjustments to the sub panel. Then it'll be carpeting for the rack and false floor.

The OEM a-pillars will be back in tomorrow too. More fiberglass work for the bench seat frame sub enclosure will be happening...

AND The home setup sounds great downstairs!

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

The driver's side mid enclosure is re-aimed
AND The home setup sounds great downstairs!

So did you aim so both Mids have the same off-axis response from sweet spot? like I did or what's your plan?


Did you move everything downstairs? that was fast!


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[sqcomp]

The mids are on the same axis now. I took the cue off of another competition vehicle. I have as yet to get everything hooked back up and sounding of though. I'll get back to you on that. It'll prolly be at the end of the month for the 3x TKE IASCA event at the coast. I'm anxious to hear what the Bit One does now with an upgraded power supply and better op-amps on the outputs. We'll see...

[derickveliz2]

I spot one of this beauties in the Parking lot, I had to park next to and take a couple of pictures... Awesome!!!

Sorry cell phone in use! crappy image quality:








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[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

The mids are on the same axis now. I took the cue off of another competition vehicle. I have as yet to get everything hooked back up and sounding of though. I'll get back to you on that. It'll prolly be at the end of the month for the 3x TKE IASCA event at the coast. I'm anxious to hear what the Bit One does now with an upgraded power supply and better op-amps on the outputs. We'll see...

Awesome, keep us up to date!

What does it means "I took the cue off another"?


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[sqcomp]

I was suprised how small that Scion is. It's not much larger than an RX-8.

The cue I received was from Bill Pleasant's speaker setup. We'll see how things pan out over the next couple months with the competition on the 26th and the INAC competition in Redding, CA in September. All of this is about improving the sound through competition, critical judgement, and experimentation.

[derickveliz2]

I've been cutting my a-pillars, but too much dust )O: and hard work, been careful not to break them.

And not a lot of enthusiast since the system sounds so nice without a-pillars (the plastic panels)

Any way... hitting 85K miles ready for another oil change.

I've been having problems with my latest music from i-tunes when I save it to a memory stick or make a CD some tracks won't play?

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[sqcomp]

The files that iTunes is using must be incompatible with the ability of the deck. IIRC you have Goldwave, correct? Just save the files to a .WAV format and then put it on your flash drive.

...and yes, the difficulty with the system setups is making the end result visually appealing. This is why it's taking me sooooo long to integrate panels. I'm going to be re working the entire floorboard of my car to make it as flat as possible. I'm taking cues from Mike Peterson's T-bird. He showed me how he made his floor panels with fleece, lead shot, and carpet.

[sqcomp]

It's my old man day today...so Check this out:



Just picked up a nice porterhouse, a traditional German Hefewiessen (and Coke Zero of course)

...After an hour of tinkering to create this:






^ I didn't take the time to attach the LEDs today. When I do, I'll wire them in with the trunk pin...

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

The files that iTunes is using must be incompatible with the ability of the deck. IIRC you have Goldwave, correct? Just save the files to a .WAV format and then put it on your flash drive.]

I think I got corrupted files in my PC, from an album 4 out of 15 don't play in my computer either I tried contacting itunes but no success, in my iPad they play ok.

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[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

I'm taking cues from Mike Peterson's T-bird. He showed me how he made his floor panels with fleece, lead shot, and carpet.

Hey those tweeters in spheres look like mine!








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[derickveliz2]

ok, there is a song in spanish, called "Todos queremos mas" LINK and talks about how we WANT MORE AND MORE!

so I guess that is why we never finish our projects!


Some one in other forum, is going to donate me a i6SW so I can try to ply 2 woofers up front (I'll give it back after and get my own)
but for the mean time I want to play:

"I want more BASS!"

Ok, so today I added my IDQ12 woofer to my system, I had "Y" RCA connectors and split the signal of the subwoofer, I put the woofer in the back seat and control it with a my PB amp so I can filter everything above 40 Hz and let the 12" woofer play only the LOW notes.

First impression was terrible, Phase issues, so I switch the wires from the 12" Sub (IDQ12) indeterminately I felt that extra BASS but even pushing Time Alignment and with all the power of the front stage + the i6SW I can tell it's coming from the back, and it's not a lot better, for a nice Sound Quality point of view the gain on the amp to the IDQ12 is very little, I can bump it up until the car shakes but no more SQ at that point.

end of the story... that extra little BASS coming from the back is not what I like.




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[derickveliz2]

Next TEST is to grab one of my 10" Solo-Barics and make a small box 0.66 cf and put instead of the i6SW and see what happens,
a square box is too big and may block my MIDs but I just want to try the 10" woofer.

Once I get second i6SWs the box for 2, is going to be around 0.7 cf so it's going to be a good challenge! we'll see how it goes!





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