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Old May 29, 2006 | 07:28 AM
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hmmm i must have posted before but meh

Headunit
Alpine CDE-9845

Pretty good headunit, the only real reason i bought it was because my previous Jensen MP7610 was hard as heck to read in the day, especially since my windows have 0 tint and my seats reflect a lot of light back. This headunit is black background and white text, it is perfect to read and doesnt give me much problems in that department, and is gorgeous at night. Sound quality is exceptional, it has a lot of fine-tuning capabilities but unfortunately no sound presets (like Rock, Jazz, Pop, Classical, etc) but the ability to adjust and fine tune the bass and treble makes up for it. It is a simpler deck, just gives a clean finished product without being too confusing. My only major gripes with this headunit is that it is VERY picky about what type of cds you can put into it and sometimes HOW you record it.. It does not like CDs that are reflective on both sides for some reason, it needs one side to be opaque (ex. the common Memorex ones it LOVES) sometimes it also decides not to read some cds if you record it a certain way... Also the different color options for the main buttons (blue, red, amber, green) look great at night but during the day they suck because they all have an odd bluish tint. So i just leave it on blue and it looks nice. overall grading is 8/10
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Front Speakers
Infinity Kappa 682.7cf

These things are great because of their absolutely clean highs, they sound amazing. Also they can handle 2ohms or 4ohms and handle quite a bit of power. You can move the tweeter on the woofer around to point it at a location you want, and you can increase/decrease treble direct from the tweeter. Bad thing is these suckers like to try and play a lot of bass, which comes out horrible because they sound like they're ripping. The mids play decent, but the higher spectrum.
overall 8/10 (depends on how you want to set your car up i guess)
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Rear Speakers
Infinity Reference 9613i

Being of the lower quality of Infinity i wasnt expecting much from these suckers when i had them installed, i also wasnt planning on getting much from the clarity department because i was planning on using them only for mids and semi-lows but it was a 3-way. well amazingly enough, these are probably some of the best sounding and most resilient speakers i've heard for not only the price but the type they are. They play the whole mid and upper spectrum very well and really fill in sound awesomely. Before i had my subwoofer i used these for bass. Doesnt really fill in like i know some other speaker woofers do but it was fine enough for me. Right now I am having problems with it only because my subwoofer is blowing out so much power its actually moving the woofer of these References and making them sound a little odd, in the near future I am going to somehow seal each other off so it doesnt move it so much.
Overall 9.5/10
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Subwoofer(s)
Polk Audio DB212-2

I love these guys. They look very nice (i've gotten compliments on it, one of the subs is my avatar) and they dont require a crapload of power for hitting as hard as they do. Ported box, custom designed by polk to be finely tuned to these twin subwoofers, it sounds pretty damned good. The price is very low, enough to make you worried as to how they cut the corners to make these things..
Bad things about it is it weighs a ton, actually about 100 pounds even. Trying to install this thing through your rear seat by yourself is a pain in the ass, especially when you can only breathe through half of one nostril and you have a fever running 102... Also it seems to be only 750 RMS. Determining from my crap amp, and what people have told me, i havent hit that mark yet. I would like a little more power but that would be first trying out a new amp to see how i can hit my mark and actually putting my bass control on my headunit above -2 so that those two points of bass arent getting reduced from my subwoofer. Last time i had it metered i BELIEVE it was about 134? but i could be wrong. These guys i KNOW can go a little more than that, and maybe if my trunk didnt rattle so much i'd probably get a little more out of it.
Overall for good design and pulling power out of such mediocre equipment - 9/10
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Amp(s)
BOSS Riot GT2500D monoblock

I've been ridiculed for this sucker, thanks Dalton.. lol. All i really have to say about this amp is that as far as i know, this thing does not put out the 900/1500 rms that it says it does. But. on the good side, it does sound decent for the real RMS it does put out, it has all the full controls, all of them work exactly as they should and the remote control comes as a plus, very well laid out. It also doesnt get too blazing hot, it does get rather hot after a solid hour of bumpin' though, but i usually cant tolerate it in my car for more than an hour, it gets annoying with my rearview mirror pointing towards the floor and the side mirros vibrating so hard that i cant see anything behind me and my eardrums feel like they're being sucked out, oh yeah and my throat starts touching and rubbing against the opposite end buggin the hell out of me.
overall - 7/10
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Audiobahn A8002T (not installed yet)

I havent had a chance to try this puppy out yet, just bought it yesterday.
so far, looks really clean, the chrome is amazing, only problem is you see every spec of dirt, every fingerprint, EVERYTHING on this guy. Rated RMS is around 200x2 4ohms, 400x2 2ohms, 800x1 bridged 2ohms. Lots of controls on the back to play with so when i get it installed we'll see from there.

ok that was a lot of typing, yay.

Last edited by P057; May 29, 2006 at 07:32 AM.
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