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[mr_jay_318i]

howdy,

so i actually worked out my avh-p7850 has an optical output.... YAY!!!.....

i know what a DAC is and what it does, but whats the go in a car. for home audio its pretty simple... in and out of the DAC. In a car what kind of processor would you use??? it would have to have the 8 ch outputs for hi/mid/low/sub but what is there available for car purpose?

is it worth it??????????????

cheers guys...

[Pulse-R]

hey Jay,
The Alpine Processors PXA-H700/H900/etc., Pioneer DEQ-P9/etc. and the Audison BitOne are the only multi-channel DACs built specifically for car purposes.
Alpine are the only ones which do DTS/Dolby Digital surround.

2-channel (stereo) DACs have been made by Nakamichi, PPI, Denon and a couple of others.

is it worth it? depends on what you expect. for the most part, there's no real advantage, except for over-the-top SQ systems: In which case you'd likely be modifying whatever you have.

[mr_jay_318i]

cheers mate thought you might come to rescue on this

so i have the dvd function but i barely ever use it. honestly dont care about surround or anythin just runnin active 3 way and thats it. stereo for me.

that then brings up the next question.... is it possible to mod my deck??? what would be the go?? new dac in the unit and balanced lines or would just be better off running an outboard dac??? ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate this.

i am set on trying to get the best sound i can. i have a 300/2 and ZR-800's on the way soon, relocating everything. spoke to bruce aswell recomended just put eights on the floor and that was the idea i was thinking too. loved the sound of the pulsar mids and tweets in the kick panel. i have some nice arena studio monitor silk domes to put in and i need new mids.

so like i was saying im getting into this and anything to improve is on my list.......its a big list already heh......

any help is awesome. i live on car stereo's...........

cheers mate

[Pulse-R]

8's are for pussies!

if you can get the speaker locations right, then you don't need T/A or active XO.. but you know that. the

300/2 is for the midbass?

[Damo95]

I would assume so...

[mr_jay_318i]

yep spot on

how did i know you were goin to say that.

got a pair of old jbl 15 monitor drivers. i could just run em IB on the floor..................................... hehehehe

besides dont have the money to buy dyn otherwise it would be bigger. this is sq on a kinda halfish budget. but just cos i dont have the cash doesnt mean i wont spend as much time possible tuning and playin with it to get the best sound i can from what i got.

300/2 for them. should do them nicely JL say 800CW takes 125rms sealed or bout 150 175 IB over 50 HZ. should do nice for em. just gotta descide between IB and sealed. im thinkin sealed, but im getting told these sound great IB.

cheers guys

[Pulse-R]

IB is a LOT harder to do than it sounds. Also, I would think the power handling to be lower in IB, as there's no box to provide suspension to the cone..
Some IB woofers can tend to sound a bit floppy also, more dynamic at the expense of accuracy.

[golf_bht]

For your set-up, I would recommend bitone. 8 is what you want. Make sure you know the logic behind it. 8 ch is very hard to tune. It may take days just to tune it up. you will need expert help.
A properly tuned 8 channel system is the killer. Just have to do some study before you could get it right.

[mr_jay_318i]

its all good im running 8ch now. took me couple of months to kinda get my head round but iv done audio engineering, been doin audio for a quite a while so got a fair idea. just lokking at ways to make a system better. and what better than a GOOD DAC.

bittone sounds intresting. ill be back got some reserch to do