A Premium Sound System for a Premium Car, (it only took 20 years for her to get it).

[Hi-FiDelity]

And just for the hell of it here are coaxail's (the 5.25 anyways) and the subs I'm going to use.

Nakamichi SP-C525 coaxials







Nakamichi SP-W104S Subs

[Hi-FiDelity]

Does that headunit have a cassette deck? I spy a door.

IT DOES! I see the dubly logo!

That's was one of the main features that drew me in other than the rather impressive built in DSP. Another was the fact that the amp section is taken straight from the 880PRS and it's preamp is a slightly scaled down version of the one in the 880PRS as well.

[Hi-FiDelity]

No built progress yet, I have to replace the rear air shocks and springs so all build plans are on hold. Though I have spent some time messing with my HU's EQ and T/A settings. The 13 band EQ has really helped in adjusting from the tweeter positions in the doors and after getting some help (again thanks Woosey and Fric) I've gotten the T/A pretty much where I want it. Well that is until I get the amp installed, we'll see what the Naks do when they get 95 watts as apposed to 15-22watts. Also I've been fairly impressed with the Pio's tape deck and not just with the features like track skip and blank space skip but with the actual transport section. A clean tape on this deck sounds as good as a CD, the Dolby filter (as usual) is hit or miss. If the tape was mastered with Dolby it works pretty damn well if not it just sounds dull.

[Hi-FiDelity]

After some deliberating I decided to snag a pair of Nakamichi PC-5200 crossover that had been floating around on ebay for the past two months. I decided to run my Nak coaxials in "comp" mode as it states in their literature, they have two discreet binding terminals (for tweeter and woofer) that can allow them to be attached to an external crossover. These guys should help the overall sound a lot more than the simple 1st order crossover that they came with. Installation pics to come.

[chithead]

Very nice upgrade!!!

[Hi-FiDelity]

I was going to install the passives this past week but temps went back into the low teens and I decided that I can wait till spring to mess with that noise. Though I did do one very simple and free mod before I left for work earlier this week. I removed the crossover for the tweets on the rear 6x9's thus disabling all but the midbass (something I had been meaning to do for a while). Damn did that help my staging, now instead of the stage sounding like it's behind my seat it's directly in it/slightly in front of it. Now I just need to pull the HU out and fix the original owners botched wiring job. Anyways, the real news is I secured a SS 700sx chassis to put my miniDSP 2x8 in so I've got some fab work I can do in the comfort of my own basement now. More to come and news at 11.

[chithead]

I didn't know you already ordered the miniDSP. This build is coming together very nicely. And quite classy too

[Hi-FiDelity]

I haven't ordered it yet. I will have to do some modding to the amp chassis for the 8 rca outputs (and the 2 inputs) and I need to wire them up so I can just mount the board and plug and play. It also needs to get powder coated and new lettering applied.

[chithead]

That is going to be super! So clean and stealthy.

[Hi-FiDelity]

Well it seems like things have really starting to come together on this build since I snagged that 700sx chassis.



May I present for your viewing pleasure my brand new Class A/B 5 Channel Monster Amp, the Soundstream REF5.1000.













This amp is down right sexy in person and it's fit and finish is second to none. Everything is lined up perfectly, no gaps, no crooked lettering/badges, nothing looks cheap or tacked on. Hell even the Soundstream badge is chromed metal like the originals. It's also one heavy mother fucker, honestly unpacked it had to weight about 25 pounds easy.The paint finish is also very nice though in low light it looks like a very dark blue as apposed to the brighter blue shown on Soundstreams web site.



It also came with a Soundstream Iron On graphic, maybe it will find a home on the back of my CAJ T-Shirt.



Also on an aside The manual was a fun read, not only does it give a nice rundown on setting up and calibrating the amp it also has a sense of humor. Check out the last two issues in on the troubleshooting page.