BMW X7 - Audiophile Stereo Upgrade EXPLAINED!! 

Thanks bro! 🙌

Huge compliment. Thanks. 🧑‍🎨

Facts

I totally agree

I've never seen mention of price in any of his videos. I guess if you have to ask, you can't afford. I got a quote from car toys for the install of the 12TW3 pre loaded box, with all other associated JL products for a sub only install, and they were wanting $4K. Based on my only baseline, this looks like a $15K install...😢

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If you have the money...do it lol

Analog is much better. Use a DAP wired to a DSP.

@@Hometheaterfan Hi, thanks for your reply. Actually i was using a DAP running Analog but after changing to digital the whole system comes alive and accuracy is increased the bass have become tighter and punchy, mids are more detailed and tweeters are sparkling, but with dap it was sounding like compressed. It was like day and night difference.

Yes I understand you can do auto switching. With 3 different sources it becomes confusing for most customers. Also you have different EQ settings from the OEM Radio to an aftermarket source. And yes, you can adjust the input EQ to compensate, but it just becomes very messy. It is very easy for each customer to equate a certain preset with a certain source.

Have you tried the Fiio link app? I was not impressed with it at all even just linking it with my phone. Not sure what it is like on the Teyes you have but I just ended up using the Fiio M11 and ditched the link app. The auto switching is great on the helix 👍

Yes, of course. The wavelength of subwoofer frequencies are so long that direction really does not come into consideration. There are cases where the subwoofer can load into a certain part of the vehicle creating more energy. But because subwoofer are under a floor or a panel, is not going to muffle the sound as long as there is adequate air movement. The biggest things are to not have resonance, which in turn would locate the subwoofer.

I prefer the DSP controller over the Mosconi. I also like the software of the Helix compared to the Mosconi.

Awesome. Thank you for the reply. I really enjoy your videos.

Matt: What is your feeling on the Audio Control 8-10 DSP?

Thank you!

There are quite a few reasons here. I think the biggest reason comes down to file format of your music. If you have DSD files, no aftermarket DSP will process that. By going digital out, you are using the DACs of the DSP and not the player. There are only a few DSPs that process above 24/96. Therefore, now you need to be extremely selective of the audio files you can play on your device. By going analog out (line out mode), you can play any file that the device supports. I use to go digital out exclusively until I did a system for a sound engineer and he insisted I did an analog input. (He also had a balanced input with XLRs with a conversion piece.) When I did the A/B Comparisons of analog vs digital using the same files and same players, I was very surprised. There was additional width and depth (sense of space) going analog out using the DACs of the player vs digital in. This is not the case for all players as I have AB compared quite a few. But for the flagship Astell (SP1000, SP2000, SP3000) it was pretty obvious.

Yes. 99% of the cars we do are from out of state.

Its an AudioQuest 3.5 to rca

It was there or the headliner. And we chose the easier to replace option. Based on the dash design, nothing in the console was feasible. Not even a way to get creative. This car was a challenge for space with everything. Even in the spot we put it, it will still difficult.

@@therealmatty_s I fully understand. It was a lot of work for me to find a spot in the center console and the look is not as seamless ( factory) as I would like it to be. Based on your installs I can tell if there was a better spot you would have done it for sure.

Sorcery. 🧙

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100% agree. We originally use a matching bright white led cobb light was spotless. (As seen in the thumbnail picture). The client wanted RGB and last minute has to swap out the cobb lights with regular non cobb RGB lights. Most RGB cobb lights run off 24v and need a converter. We didnt have anything like that in the amount of time to swap the lights, so we just stuck with the standard RGB LED.

@@therealmatty_s ​ get in contact with ledyi: chinese led manufacturer with very big product range, custom orders and cheap. I only ordered 30m there, as they don´t have minimum order quantity.

@@therealmatty_s I found that using an opal/frosted acrylic border will help to diffuse the singular rgb leds.

@@B15SDMDESIGNS The edge is frosted. Keep in mind, you are looking at it from the edge profile. The piece is not vertical. If this was vertical, you would hardly notice the individual leds. Nothing you can do about that other than 24v cobb LED lights.

Awesome! Thank you.

Demo videos of what?

@@therealmatty_s of how they sound

@@josetorres5566 you would have to hear it in person. lol. How are you supposed to get a feel for how it sounds hearing it through your iPhone speaker recorded from a video camera?

That’s totally true. A shit audio input will sound equally shit on your speakers. A good audio input will negate the input side but if you don’t have a perfectly linear input to output conversion than you hear a completely different sound. What you shouldn’t forget too is the difference a powerful system can deliver compared to headphones. It is a complete difference when you can just hear music vs hearing and feeling music.