[killahsharksjc]

For those of you who don't know me .. Im Jesse from Simplicity In Sound in
San Jose/Milpitas CA.. This build is of my own personal E90..


Goals are to achive good sound quality in my everyday driver and have a little bump in the trunk.

Equipment consist of
Headunit : Initially I installed a Alpine HD149BT single din. It has some functions that I don't like so as of yesterday I swapped it with an Pioneer 80Prs .. no wire harness was needed . I soldered all the wires to the factory harness.

Ran all new wires to all the factory speaker locations... No speaker wires or signal cables were ran down. the passenger side of the car . The right speaker wires are routed across the dash then down the drivers side. These cars are notorious from picking up noise.

Tweeters are Morel MT250 . Mounted in the stock locations . They snap right in . =) ..
Mid is Morel Hybrid 4 .. Routered up some speaker baffles out of MDF and painted them black.
Midbass are the Gladen Audio Underseat woofers .
Subwoofer : Illusion Audio C12XL

Amps are Arc Audio XDi v2 1200/6 and XDi V2 1100.1 .. Amps are mounted under the rear deck for a sheath look and to maintain most of my trunk

Processing is an Arc Audio PS8. ( I'll snaps some pictures in the morning)


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well there it is ... Thanks

Killahsharksjc.

[ethanjoon]

Nice work for a DIY. I'd be too scared to approach this myself

[viperguy212]

Is that black resin? Never seen that before lol.

[ctuna]

How did you assign the channels on the 6 chan arc?

[killahsharksjc]

Originally Posted by viperguy212

Is that black resin? Never seen that before lol.

I added black pigment from Tap plastics to the resin......

[ctuna]

What was the issue with the alpine vs pioneer deck
Soune quality?

[cypis007]

Originally Posted by ctuna

How did you assign the channels on the 6 chan arc?

+1

[Dannyboy]

Some nice equipment there!!!

Do you have a ski pass or is the trunk totally sealed? If it is sealed how does the sub sound in the cabin?

[killahsharksjc]

Originally Posted by ctuna

What was the issue with the alpine vs pioneer deck
Soune quality?

I didn't like that the Alpine only had one USB , that the usb didn't stay where it left off when u turn the power off.. it started back at track one on album one.. And the response time on skipping tracks on the alpine was a bit laggy .. The pioneer is a tad smoother on the top end .... They both sound good.

[killahsharksjc]

Originally Posted by ctuna

How did you assign the channels on the 6 chan arc?

Tweeters to Channels 1&2
Mids to channels 5&6
Midbass (underseat woofers)to channels 3&4

[killahsharksjc]

Originally Posted by Dannyboy

Some nice equipment there!!!

Do you have a ski pass or is the trunk totally sealed? If it is sealed how does the sub sound in the cabin?

It's the sealed trunk. The bass comes thru .. but might have more output if it wasn't sealed .

[killahsharksjc]

Ttt

[bmw325i]

This will make things quicker and easier for you.
http://www.wccaraudio.com/smd-sunfla...-us-quart.html

[Route 16]

daaaamn that's dope
would you be able to help me replace these cones?
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1054912

[ctuna]

http://www.simplyspeakers.com/speaker-recone-kits.html

[Route 16]

Originally Posted by ctuna

http://www.simplyspeakers.com/speaker-recone-kits.html

Ctuna always the man!

[bmw325i]

Originally Posted by Route 16

daaaamn that's dope
would you be able to help me replace these cones?
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1054912

These guys can make you a custom recone kit.
http://fixmyspeaker.com/

[Route 16]

Originally Posted by ctuna

http://www.simplyspeakers.com/speaker-recone-kits.html

Any norcal referrals?

Originally Posted by bmw325i

These guys can make you a custom recone kit.
http://fixmyspeaker.com/

Any norcal referrals?

[bmw325i]

Originally Posted by Route 16

Any norcal referrals?



Any norcal referrals?

Not sure what you are asking. If you need someone to recone your sub for you you can send it in to psi or you can do it yourself it's not complicated. I'm not sure I would bother reconing a type r though. Since it only has a 2.5" voice coil there isn't much they can do to upgrade it.

[tc535i]

would you recommend the Gladen upgrade for somebody that wanted more low end but doesn't want a trunk sub? difficulty? any extra mounting parts needed?

I don't need single digit frequency or chest pounding bass, but definitely more than my logic 7 setup provides

[ctuna]

Haven't heard the Gladens but the Jehnerts are a audphile
speaker very accurate warm and smooth. I like mine a lot.
If you are old school and want a balanced system they are great
and you might even think your system is a little bass heavy.
I have Morels in the doors and Jehnerts in the floors powered by
a Jl 600/6 its beyond my expectations.
I can make myself deaf pretty fast with this setup.

I have heard really good things about the mosconi 120.4 dsp
with the Gladen kits.

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=445266

But its going to be hard to do with Logic 7 as a starting point

[Route 16]

Originally Posted by bmw325i

Not sure what you are asking. If you need someone to recone your sub for you you can send it in to psi or you can do it yourself it's not complicated. I'm not sure I would bother reconing a type r though. Since it only has a 2.5" voice coil there isn't much they can do to upgrade it.

Only the cosmetic part, not for actual performance. Knowing me, I'm more likely to make it worse if I repaired it.