retrodrive

So the speakers were MC also? I have never really heard anything good about them.

We have a shop here in San Diego called LaJolla audio and basically they take your card and install the system in your lamborgini, porche or ferrari and never really mind the prices. After sitting in a couple of their demo vehlicles I was blown away (utopia/dynaudio) installs. However, Rainbow Refs made those installs sound average. I was tuning mine for 2 weeks and I have another 2 weeks to finish tuning...very hard that is.

Percy

Retro,

What are you settings for eq right now?

Percy

retrodrive

I use the ARC Audio one right now. Waiting for them to come out with their new one. Actually it is not connected when I am tuning kickpanels. Neither are tweets

enginyr

Someone must know!
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=29204

Ira Senoff

About my earlier post re: Zapco and ARC, et al............

Time did tell - ARC cars got smacked around by the Zapco cars at the IASCA finals. Also, the big Rainbow Reference car got smoked by the Focal Cars (Rick McCallum vs. Bill Acevedo) Also, I know that the Rainbow mids were removed from the vehicle and replaced with ID mids virtually in the judging lanes. So, you tell me, was I right or was I right............

On a related topic, the big Dynaudio car at finals (Phil Petracca, also Zapco car) smoked the Big amatuer/expert Focal car of Mike Peterson (formerly an expert world champion car)

Lex Luthor

1995 SC4
Alpine CVA-1005
Alpine CHA-1214
RF Punch G800a4 1002w bridged
RF Punch 225.2 577w bridged
RF Connecting Punch wiring, signal, and distribution
Pioneer DEQ-7200 DSP control
Sony PS2
Sima 140/300w pwr inverter
JL 10IB4
Speakers being ordered as u read this, probably Focal 6.5" and 4" components

Lex Luthor

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Lex Luthor

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gen1gs

Here is mine!

1993 Gs300

Factory Pioneer Deck
Alpine 6 disc-RF changer
5.25 Mb quartz seperates in the front
5.25 Mb quartz coaxials in the rear
2 10" Kicker solo barics in a custom sealed box
PPI 6600 6 channel amp
Installation done by me, with all PG patch and speaker wires.

sarkastro

My system specs are as follows:

Alpine 7977 HU
Focal Polykevlar 165k2 up front
Polykevlar 165k in the rear deck
2 JL 12W3 sealed
JL 300/4 powering the two comp sets
RF bd500.1 powering the subs at 2 ohms
Lightning 1 fared cap and an Optima yellow top

retrodrive

There is also another way to look at this. ARC/Rainbow is fairly new on the market. Only a few people use it. Comparing them to the number of pros that use Zapco/Focal would be unfair at this point. Give them a couple of years when there are more competitors with ARC/Rainbow products and I am positive that they will beat Zapco/Focal. Since SQ competitions are all about natural sound, Focal looses because of its agressivness. Even tuned, they do not sound as neutral as Rainbow Refs and many other brands out there (Accuton, Seas etc.) Just give them time and you will see whats up

As far as midbasses go. I was actually the one who suggested rick to swap them for IDs. Speakers are all about application. His doors were not ideal for those speakers, thats why he swapped them to IDs. In my doors those same speakers sound much much better.

LexusRules

old system:

Legacy 2 10" Subs
Legacy Bandpass Box
Legacy 2 Channel Amp

sold that **** (ripped some guy off too , actually he ripped himself off )

now:

bone stock + optima yellow top

upcoming:

lots a stuff