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bigaudiofanatic

Well the thing is guys actually have what women call selective hearing.We would rather hear good quality audio than hear bickering. LOL kidding not really sure.

arun1963

Dude, just wait a few years till you get hitched. You will then really need your music, it will be your only refuge. Till the kids come along. Then you'll have a choice.

bigaudiofanatic

LOL sounds funny

arun1963

How's the home project comming along? Was reading your thread a few days back. Did you manage to change the wires inside the speakers and did it make a difference? Just curious. BTW your room looks a lot neater than what my room looked like, when I was your age.

bigaudiofanatic

LOL yes I worked on the first speaker just doing the wire from the post to the crossover. I actually had to adjust the levels as it made the upgrade a bit louder. I will do the second one soon.

Ya I like to keep my room clean not only for myself but in case I have visitors.

billz428

You flew out to Cali to do an install in a Parking lot and along side the street?

bigaudiofanatic

No it was at his house and we wanted to continue to work on it so we went to my hotel and worked on it behind the hotel. With their permission of cores. I had a blast!

bigaudiofanatic

Another install was done the direct link here " http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=454710 " It was a 2008 Honda CRV came out great. I will not say much more as the customer "Adam" said most of it.

Directly from him

Today was the first day of my '08 CR-V's metamorphosis. With the help of forum member bigaudiofanati2 (Matt) - who I can't recommend highly enough whether you just need questions answered, want to hire for a build or to work along with and learn something at the same time while having things installed well (e.g. good solder skills, and methodical). We started with my car:

FROM:
'08 CRV LX, with Pioneer DEH-7000BT I previously installed (together with bluetooth, external XM module, but everything else stock (speakers, no amps, no sub - blah blah sound with lots of road noise).

TO (so far):
Alpine PDX-5 5-channel amp; Polk MM6501 6.5" component system for the front; Infinity 6032si 6.5" for the rears. Also, 3-bulk packs of Dynamat Extreme, Kicker 09PK4 4AWG amp wiring kit and Monster MPC I306 6-channel RCA cable. The sub-choice remains pending (but will be powered by the PDX-5) - as I'm still considering either sub-box location or some way of integrating a shallow-mount sub or the like in the truck (without buying a $$$ JL Stealthbox; I'd rather be a bit more unique/custom than that).

Well, without further adieu, here are some pics from Day One. The dynamating was all my work, so don't hold any faux pas there against Matt, lol. I'll leave it to him to reply and detail the considerations he has taken so far on the build.

bigaudiofanatic

All new speaker wire was ran to the speakers and to the new tweeters. The original plan was to build up a mount with wood and bondo the tweeters into the sides of the doors. "might still do" but we will first test the system with the stock locations and see how it sounds and go from there. It would look slick and would probably give him better imaging. As I said still up in the air. Tomorrow I will be working on the fuse mount for the crv and painting that. Than Friday we will get back together install the amp either under the seat or in another location. As we have said we are not sure what we are going to do about the sub yet but it will probably be a custom box build. Which I will look forward to. Other minor things will be remounting the blu tooth mic. the sad part about this is that the pioneer is already producing a low wine noise "always with pioneers" so I will probably ground the rca's and change the ground point see if that helps. Might be changing the head unit but that is up to Adam and what the turnout is. It is going to turn out to be a good setup.

Did the fuse block bracket


Fuse mount looks good. Up here in North Jersey, I continued with Dynamat. Today, I think it was seven sheets in the trunk. Here are some pics before and after.

Tomorrow, big things happening. PDX-5 amp which was finally delivered being installed, dynamat to the floors/liftgate, mount the crossovers, bluetooth mic, put everything back together again the ... yeah, listen to and tune it.

bigaudiofanatic

Drove down yesterday to continue work with Matt (after spending the day before putting in my trunk Dynamat, as shown above). Wrapped up everything nicely - Dynamat to the floors, amp installed, custom fuse bracket and sheet metal bluetooth mic bracket installed. The Alpine PDX-5 is awesome - so small and the verification sheet from the factory - well, a pic is below; obviously they severely underrate the powerhandling ability of them. I'll let Matt fill in any details from yesterday i'm forgetting. Again, can't recommend working with him highly enough. Learned a lot yesterday and his attention to detail is very significant.

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He will be back so we can either build a box OR fiberglass one.

agh98

That CR-V above is mine....I had a great time working with Matt. Learned a lot and he showed an attention to detail that's unfortunately pretty rare nowadays. He was quite obsessive with crafting the fuse holder, lol, but that's the kind of crazy-obsession that makes use audio-geeks proud.

If anyone in NY, PA, NY needs help/or wants some gear installed, I'd PM him without hesitation.

shawglen

Is that a heat vent near the amp?

Does that cause any overheating issues?

Does it also pass AC through it?

Nice install btw.

bigaudiofanatic

Yes it is a vent no problems with heating or cooling. Nothing that will harm the amp.

F1nut

So, I'm a little confused. Is this your business.....you know, how you make a living?

chu

F1nut wrote: »

So, I'm a little confused. Is this your business.....you know, how you make a living?

He does this for fun tbh.

bigaudiofanatic

Pretty much a side thing. I would not call it my job but it somewhat helps me with my audio obsession.

bigaudiofanatic

Worked on another car yesterday. This one I got involved in working with bondo. I am still working on the pods and going to get paint soon for them but I do not think they came out bad for a first time.

0 Gauge ran

bigaudiofanatic

Yesterday did another install. This one was in a Saab 9-3 Aero.


All wires soldered and heat shrunk.



Dash apart


Hid the sirius and nav antenna under the top grill


Dash back together.

bigaudiofanatic

Other installs

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97760

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99548

bigaudiofanatic

LOL me? A showoff, I just try me best and with the bmw he had me push my skills. I will say that was a bit nerve racking but the end result was amazing.

craigpsu

I believe you have had some experience installing in Accords, mine is an 04. How much dynamat or whatever other brand of sound deadening material would your recommend? I know I want to do the doors and possible a few other areas to start with, where do you think it needs to be the most?
Thanks

bigaudiofanatic

For the accord the doors, and floor I would to plus the trunk. I would say at least 2 full boxes of dynamat or if you want to be safe a third box.

The accord I did he sort of wanted to go wild with the stuff and took the entire car apart and did everywhere. Unless you are crazy about quite. two boxes should be plenty.

craigpsu

Thanks for the advice...

I see you are living in NJ, which isn't too far from me. I can get to Newark, DE (279, I-95 exit) in about 40 minutes or so.

One last question for now, is there any size restrictions on fitting the speaker wire in the Accord/Door areas to run component? I am going to run 12 or 14 AWG wire (depends if I get hooked up or not). I have heard some cars are a little harder than others to fish the wire through.

bigaudiofanatic

If you run wire do not run 12 very much over kill and very much a pain to run. Run 14 or 16 gauge which will run any power that you want to send to your speakers. I usually run 14 gauge.

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