TimTam
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- First Name
- Tim
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- Melbourne, Australia
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- Civic Type-R (FK8) #04830
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We already know the audio in the FK8 is an area where Honda has cut costs. 12 relatively average Foster speakers, a lousy 550W outboard amp and a subwoofer that doesn't really do much... what could be worse?
Cut to Australia, where Honda has deleted the centre dash speaker, both rear C pillar speakers, the subwoofer, AND the outboard amp. Imagine 160W of *peak* power pushed into tinny Pioneer speakers*! And the Honda DSP guys are told: make this setup sound as least terrible as possible. What kind of EQ do they have to apply?
(*Having said that, I'm actually really happy with the deal we get in Oz... other than the crummy sound system, the car is fully loaded, and we only pay MSRP!)
Over the weekend, my front Pioneer speakers vanished and were replaced with Dynaudio MD102 tweeters and MW152 midrange drivers, all powered by an Audison AP8.9 bit DSP/Amp. And when the de-EQ process ran, it graphed the factory EQ. Here it is:
As you can see, it's pretty feral! The bass starts rolling off below 100Hz, and the mid-range is all over the place. Ugly!! The new kit sounds so much better :-D
When I get the mic set up I'll tale some measurements... can't wait to tune it!
Cut to Australia, where Honda has deleted the centre dash speaker, both rear C pillar speakers, the subwoofer, AND the outboard amp. Imagine 160W of *peak* power pushed into tinny Pioneer speakers*! And the Honda DSP guys are told: make this setup sound as least terrible as possible. What kind of EQ do they have to apply?
(*Having said that, I'm actually really happy with the deal we get in Oz... other than the crummy sound system, the car is fully loaded, and we only pay MSRP!)
Over the weekend, my front Pioneer speakers vanished and were replaced with Dynaudio MD102 tweeters and MW152 midrange drivers, all powered by an Audison AP8.9 bit DSP/Amp. And when the de-EQ process ran, it graphed the factory EQ. Here it is:
As you can see, it's pretty feral! The bass starts rolling off below 100Hz, and the mid-range is all over the place. Ugly!! The new kit sounds so much better :-D
When I get the mic set up I'll tale some measurements... can't wait to tune it!