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So I got my Eclipse XA4200 last week as well as my new 4AWG wiring kit. I spent ALL day Sat making 6X8 to 5-1/4 adapters out of MDF, running 14AWG speaker wire(darn door molex's PITA), modifying my stock tweeter pods, installing woofers in newly made adapters, running new 4AWG power wire/ground (had 8AWG), also ripping out some stock wiring for factory amp that doesn't exist, and putting all the interior panels back before dark. Whew...
Today I mounted my XA4200 to my sub box and hooked it up. Front L/R are powering front L/R and rear L/R are powering my 12" Infinity (300W RMS). I installed the PPI 355cs crossovers under the front seats the beasts. I hot glued the inserts I made for the tweeters to the factory "module, piece, thing" and screwed the tweeter brackets to them, then installed them and the tweeters in the car. Then I re-connected my battery adjusted the crossovers so they wouldn't affect the HU's Auto time alignment/EQ and lowered the gains all the way. Next I turned my HU on and set the gains. While setting the gains to "A Billie" because of the repetitiveness of the song I was pretty happy with how things were sounding... Lunch... I let my Pioneer Premier DEH-P980BT do it's Auto TA/EQ thing and that's all folks.
Results AMAZING: crystal clarity, tight clean bass, imaging, you can FEEL the mid-bass and mid-RANGE(snare drums), loud, doesn't make your ears tired at all even at high volume.
The Wynton Marsalis Quartet - The Magic Hour-ALL tracks are great for testing imaging, bass, vocals, etc.
Track #1(Feeling of Jazz) I love the upright bass (CLEAN) and the symbol on the left(CRYSTAL CLEAR) Diane Reeves sounds like her head is in my instrument cluster and when Wynton comes in scatting on his trumpet(I play trumpet)... the whole song sounds so LIVE not quite as good Imaging as at work with a pair of Definitive Technology Mythos STS Super Tower's (sound and vision's Audio product of the year 2009) but very good.
Track #2 Good, but I haven't heard anything beat the Mythos imaging wise on this song the band starts the song by CLAPPING rhythms(lol you have to hear it, its really cool) in what sounds like a fairly small auditorium. Maybe later when I re-aim and make fiberglass tweeter pods and fiberglass woofer enclosures aiming them as well I will come closer to the Def-tech's (which for a reference R.A.PE an equally priced set of B&W's set up in the same room in mid-range, mid-bass, imaging, etc.)
Some other songs:
Embrace You by Chris Botti has been one of my favorite test tracks after listening to it on some Totem towers that had me mesmerized I think the silk dome PPI tweeters beat the Mythos aluminum domes on this song for a reason I can't really explain.
Gordon Goodwin's XXL album- High Maintenance, Hunting Wabbits, and Horn of Puente (making my Bose 2.1 sound like doodie right now)
Linkin Park - Cure for the itch
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds AWESOME LIVE sound
Another GREAT very high quality recording is Santana - Shaman - Entire album
OK I'll stop now already.