My system is working great. I am very happy overall and would do it again but I have nothing to compare against other than the stereo in my 2006 Toyota Truck (a JBL branded thing) and the one in my wife's 2006 Mercedes E-class. It plays as loud as I want, handles bluetooth calls, and on the occassion I listen to the radio the HD-radio usually kicks in. I would love to have two subwoofers but not sure my little amp would have been up to the task. I didn't use the second subwoofer because my kid is in the backseat every weekday morning. I never screwed in my subwoofer into my car but I think its fine.

 

Good to hear. Yeah, i have 2 little kids that love to ride in the Porsche. I'm glad they love it. Sometimes they will cry if we have to take the other car!

 

You might not need to get a subwoofer. You might be able to bump up the response at the bottom frequency range with an aftermarket DSP unit. I do this and I do not feel the need for a subwoofer.

If you take the outputs of the CDR-220 and feed into an aftermarket DSP, you can not only have very granular equalization settings on a per-channel basis (4 channels equalized differently), you can also adjust the delay to each speaker so that all the sound hits your ears at the same time --- thus shifting the sound stage so that it is directly in front of the driver.

I did this on my own CR-220 (I have the tape deck w/ CD changer) --- stashed the DSP under the passenger seat. It works very very well and the difference between using the DSP/equalization/time delay and not is fantastic. Without the DSP the music sounds a little muddy and the sound stage is not centered wrt to the driver. With the DSP --- everything sounds fantastic.

I am using an alpine 4 channel amplifier under the passenger's seat as well --- and focal drivers in the doors. I do not use a subwoofer and feel that the bass is good enough that I do not need a subwoofer.

I have attached a screenshot of what it is like to program the DSP (plug a laptop into a little usb port under the seat where the DSP lives).

Here is the thread on my installation -

Thread in the 993 Forums

 

That sounds great! What dsp are you using?

Ricardo, do you want to sell the other sub?

 

Almost any dso with lots of equalization points will work. Mosconi, alpine, audsion, etc. i use an audison bit ten.

 

Cool. I will look for one of those. Pretty easy to setup? Did u use auto eq?

 

Also, i have older rockford amp/ mb quart speakers. Do u think they are sufficient?
Does the hu matter if using a dsp? I will be buying one of those.

 

I only bought one sub.

 

I modified the template you had uploaded earlier, and made it so it has the cut outs on both sides (can be mirrored) and suitable for just running through a laser cutter. I've attached it in case it's useful to anyone.

Got my focals door mounted with some dynamat behind them and still not super pleased with the bass, don't want to go behind the seats so I'm messing about with seeing if I can move things around to a get a kenwood underseat sub under the passenger seat, it looks like it might fit, but I may need to space the seat up somehow.

My other thought is to just switch to 6.5" Focals in the doors and see if that helps more.

-R

 

Thanks Ramans! I've been trying to get around that but now that will make it that much easier!
What are you guys coating the wood with so it doesn't absorb moisture?

 

Wonder if you could make this from acrylic?
I used to be in hi fi home stereos and that was well regarded for turntables, shelves.
Anybody know how hard it would be to cut these from acrylic?
I have bought 1/2" sheets of it before... Not very expensive

 

I made mine from ABS and used a laser cutter I had access too to cut them out. The laser took Microsoft VISIO files so I have it in that format if it's useful happy to share it out.

I'll take some pictures of the ABS versions and post them if you guys want to see but I had an easier time with that then doing MDF which broke in half when I cut them. I used 1/4" ABS From a local TAP Plastics I think it cost like $12 for enough to cut three of them, plus the test cuts to make sure the laser was getting through it.

 

What is ABS?

 

ABS is a type of plastic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylon...adiene_styrene

 

Started with my Targa I found that using those cheap cutting boards of approx 3/16" thick work very well. They cut/mill easily and do not rot or deform in moisture. Might be worth checking.