Aside from adding crossovers, the only modification which would have been needed would be to add 2 exhaust ports to the narrow rear panel of OE woofers as I outlined in my thread I posted awhile ago ...
Your price would be a very high end high powered amp with a large sub channel. You can get small form factor 7-8 channel amps with DSP that do around 400-500w for $300-600 no problem. They're claiming 6w per channel on theirs vs 40-60w on aftermarket units but their amp is very small.
The most you can process is per channel and since this is hooking up to an OEM harness that means the OE system is combing multiple speakers per channel. That's not a big deal though as you could easily just run DSP on the whole system with no individual channel work and make an improvement. OE systems nowadays use center channels to get each seat a pseudo center image which makes a big mess. If they even have 1 channel to LF, 1 to RF and 1 to center then you have more than you need to make big corrections.
Personally, I would never want midbass speakers behind me. That's going to create terrible imaging and tonality problems. You'll be able to localize them very easily. Plus you'd really need to make the modifications to the enclosure you mentioned and I doubt they wanted to have customers cutting holes. It seems like this product was setup to be as drop in friendly as possible.
That's not really an issue as far as I'm concerned here....The low / mid-bass and sub bass frequencies really don't have a significant impact on imaging as do the midrange and higher frequencies do...Also having both lower the mid-bass and subs separated out will produce higher system efficiency with less distortion rather than a system simply relying on one sub to doing all the heavy lifting from 20hz to 1000hz as the OEM Audio sub does...
Yes you make a valid point but a drop in 9ch Mobridge amp/dsp is $1000. For another $300 you can buy a 300w rms 8" enclosed sub.
Sure they do but most people just don't care. They simply accept that the sub bass and mid bass is coming from beside them or behind them instead of in front of them. Then, the more they turn their system up the easier it is to localize.
I agree with this and as well as the simple fact that you don't have any options in this car outside of custom fabrication because of where they placed them. It is what is and you just roll with it. Do we know that they completely by passed the stock woofers though? I don't recall seeing anything about them in the literature.
The only selling point of this system at the price point they're charging is the DSP corrections they've made. So realistically, if it's done correctly there should be a significant change. We're talking about fixing an enclosure for woofers vs custom EQ, TA and phase adjustment for a whole system. I could walk out and spend less then a hour with a car that cost $15k brand new, measure and make changes then run those changes through a convoluter into a MP3. I guarantee anyone here listening to before and after would say there is a massive difference. But I'm making some assumptions as to how much work they put into tuning the system that may not even be there.
Yes, when I spoke with them on the phone they confirmed they are not utilizing the oem subs due the poor enclosure design.
Wow... Is your new system over 1935 Watts?? The OEM Audio claims 645W...
Maybe lets see:
I never asked what the rms with a 2ohm load for the first 6 channels would be but ch6 and ch7 can be run at 2 ohm at 280 rms.
thanks for clarifying.... I was just curious as you had said 3x the power ...That would be way more than enough...ha!
