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You could have just stopped here.

Yeah I'd definitely call first and it will do more for you than just let you know if they have a way to demo speakers for you or not. Explain to them your situation, how far away you are, what you're looking for and to do. Ask them about the brands the sell and the experience they have. Ask them if they have an install log book or photo album of work they've done and lastly ask if there's any vehicles there to get a demo in. Now, it's been my experience that if they're a decent shop they'll have the photo album and a vehicle or two to demo in but the biggest thing is that they will ask you what it is you're looking to do and achieve. Now that kind of question is two fold as it is their job to sell equipment and they will want to try to sell you some but here's the catch. A good shop will do that, make some suggestions, etc. but give you space and let you talk and explain stuff, your vehicle, experience, blah blah blah. They'll spend some time without expecting much. The worst shops I've run across ask up front what you're interested in, how much money you're going to spend, and will either push as hard as possible to make sale or not spend any time with you because you're really only looking and not that interested in spending money with them. Both of those traits turn me away in a hurry. I travel a fair bit for work with training, meetings, etc. and have spent lots of time walking into shops to just check things out that I in no way planned to spend any money and I'd let them know that up front as soon as the first employee asked if they could help me. The local crappy shop and a few others I've visited in other cities practically turn you back out the door which I've never understood the thinking behind that. You'd think they would want to try to at least keep you coming back in. The best shop I ever visited was in Tulsa, OK and I've not found another one as good as it yet. They had the best sound room setup I've ever experienced, a fantastic photo album of the work they've done, and were the friendliest and most polite people you could ever ask for. When I explained why I was there the salesman introduced me to the owner, showed me their shop and the work they had going on at the time. He also showed me both of their demo vehicles and I was there over two hours just talking audio with him and the owner. Damn I've rambled on forever, lol. The point is, call first and verify that they have what you're looking for/to do and try to ascertain whether or not it's worth your time to go there or not. If so then go and listen to as many speaker sets as they have available to listen to. Keep in mind that a sound board will sound completely different than an in vehicle installation but you should still be able to get a fair idea of what you like and dislike about the sound. Then come back here and explain your thoughts on it.

You're not the only one who has that problem. There's only two shops within 20 miles of my house. One of them is the BIGGEST ripoff, scam artist owned shit hole anyone could ever walk into and they think Planet Audio rules all. The other one is actually a fantastic shop with an owner and two guys who work there who actually know a REAL thing or two about audio but the place is so small they have no sound board even. Hell for that matter the place is nothing more than a large garage but they do great business and can pull off legitimate custom work too. The nearest Best Buy or city with any other audio stores is around 50 miles to the North or South of me so trust me dude I know the boat you're in.

Dafuq, Adrian?

Makes sense tho. I've heard a bunch of comps that were bad ass in the store, sucked ass in a car. Undoubtedly installed wrong, but still night and day different.

Demo in cars? Didn't know they do that. All I've ever seen is soundboards.

Also, it may not be the tweeters. The biggest problem with most component sets is that the passive crossover point typically lets frequencies play right through the point where the mid starts beaming and/or causes cone breakup. That was the issue I found with the Bravox CS60K components in the Jimmy but it was so bad that no amount of EQ could smooth it out and the music still sound right. They're doing great as dedicated midbasses crossed over at 300hz but I found through playing with crossover settings and such that anything above 800hz they started the ear splitting, almost screaming at me kind of problems. Even though the frequency it was happening at was lower than most tweeters play at everyone I showed it to also thought it was the tweeters as well, it just sounded like a higher frequency. There was an article on this problem in CA&E that explained the issue as to why it's the mid and not the tweeter in great detail. I'll see if I can't hunt that up from somewhere. A quick way to verify whether or not it's the tweeters that have an issue or the mids would be to disconnect the tweeters and listen for a period, then do the same with the mids disconnected and the tweets playing alone. You'll find out real quick where the problem lies.

good news you can probably sell the dd-1 for a new tweeter. and it would solve your problems.

DD-1 is your problem

It plays! Also picked up some goodies from sky high.

My 21st battery came in, also did a little work on the bus bars. Just ordered $80 worth of hardware lol, as well as some skyhigh 4ga and ring terminals. Polished 1 to see how I liked it, and I did. So the rest will be done soon

Waiting on 1 last battery. Put an amp up without the bottom rack just to see what it will look like

Got some more work done.

Decided to buy 1 more d1600 and have 21 total. 3 rows of 7 batteries.