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Decided to buy a W201 chassis Mercedes Benz, it was cheap and in nice condition so I had to do it. What is wrong with another car, right? The day I bought it, did not like the wheels at all. They are from a mid 2000's E class. Check out that interior color: I found some stock pie plate wheels and put some new tires on for the winter: Previous owner did ruin the dash: Previous owner added some bass, these are two spare tire woofers from a mid 2000s Mazda: That is it for now, kicks have been sent off to get done because the car does not have any room for speakers up front stock besides 4" in the top of the dash. I will be using SSA Evil 8 ohm mids with Aurasound 3" Full Rangers. I also have a 12" Dcon laying around that I will be using for woofer duty. Amps are still up in the air but I have been trying to convince someone to sell me his old RF Punch Amplifiers. Source is an Alpine 7894, an older deck with built in DSP.

Fuck Sean, I said that this could be a last resort suggestion if he couldn't figure the head unit out. Don't get so uptight, I'm just trying to help. Op I will call Josh and see if you two can get in contact (since he competes with his) and see if he can give you good information. If you still need assistance after working with Sean.

Unplug everything but the tweeters. I always listen to every driver on its own and then every driver with every phase possibility independently. Both before and after T/A. Those tweeters have balls and can take some heat (in particular if you don't have the first run where the quality control was a bit iffy), but just because they can doesn't mean that is what they will sound good doing. EQ2 should be the network EQ. Perhaps Pioneer hides the auto eq settings from you...but I don't remember as I sold the vehicle mine was in more than 6.5 years ago and when I tried the Auto setup it was horseshit. No T/A, no EQ, and cross points set at 12dB and using the Fs of the tweeter and a generic 63Hz on the sub KILLED the auto setup. Embarassing how bad it was.

Cancellation is a bitch and autoeq and setup is useless.

That thing is SOOOOO clean!

You can literally just copy off of google images and post them here. Those subwoofer enclosures look cool.

As soon as I can post pix I will . I did seal off all openings not needed to replace the outer panel . I used sheet metal , then treared the doors with the aforementioned deadner. I will try to do some listening , and figure what I do , and don't like . Since my issues are with my front stage , should I turn the subs off ? Side note : I figured out how to switch phase in the deck this morning , and when I reversed the phase of the tweeters the sounded a little richer, brighter , with more sizzle; for lack of a bether word . So then I reversed phase on the mids , and it sounds a bit better as well . So I see there are significant gains to be made by understanding how to use what I have .

No. Make sure your amps are run at full range. If you use both the crossover on the amp and the headunit your phase will be screwed up even more. There is NO reason in your setup to have anything in the amp but a gain stage. The rest will just make it worse. Sounds like you have the Auto off. Do yourself a favor and shut off your sub and listen only to your front stage for a few days. Adding bass muddies up how your ears respond and your brain listens.

Exactly why I said to describe what is wrong with what you have. I know you said it was hard, but gave us one thing and that part was already easy to make better. There are MANY more little things just like that

I will find a better company.