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merlin said:
Just dropped car off for:

Kenwood KDC-W5534U - CD/MP3/USB TUNER
Kenwood KFC-P703 - 6.5 inch components

Plus they're charging £60 to fit it all.

"Bought" (read as - acquired ;) ) a 512mb USB thingy & loaded up some tunes on it.

Should do the trick, they said go back at 2.30pm and it'll all be done.

Excited but I hate leaving my car with people I dont know :(
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Checked trip and mileage before you left it?
 
ramirez said:
Checked trip and mileage before you left it?
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Sure did. :)

Plus I got the added bonus of the fuel gauge reading smack bang on the half way point.

And I'm going to turn up unannounced a bit early too.

Talk about paranoid..... :p
 
Man I love it. :D Not the most lavish installation ever - £305 all in for the HU and speakers (the speakers were £75 tho). Of all the cars I've had I've never had a decent audio system so this sort of quality is all new to me. I'm used to hearing songs that sound like they're coming out of a biscuit barrel.

Playing old CD's I'm hearing notes I never knew were there - the old clarion system really was just kack. First time in a car of mine I can feel the bass as well as hear it.

The USB system works a treat, lead terminates in the glove box, got 9 albums on the stick and still plenty of space left on it.

The HU is now the same colour as the trim in the car - brushed silver and I've changed the buttons on the HU to glow red to match up with the clocks etc.

The audio engine thing I'm still playing with - you can change the bass, trebble and volume of three channels - low, mid and high notes. Dont really know what I'm doing but I'll just play around with it & see what sounds nice.

Just one niggle :-

I'm not happy with the fit of the HU - basically it's not quite flush with the console - the top of the HU is sunk in maybe 3mm and the bottom is flush so it looks tilted. Going to call them when they open and ask them to refit it. Pretty ameteurish tbh, but it took them 3 hours and they only charged me for two.
 
In terms of settings, see if the HU has a 'High Pass Filter' setting, this should filter higher frequency signals to the tweeters so that only they drive your higher frequency sounds and the main drivers handle everything else. That should make things sound a bit cleaner.

If you want a good test song, put on Fools Gold by The Stone Roses. Good bassline, instrumental bit and vocals. Or Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. Not sure what you are into but both good songs... :D

Edit: Every headunit I've had (well two!!) have had a plastic cover, a rectangular slim piece of plastic that goes around the headunit making the front of the headunit flush with the centre console. It should cover any gaps around the headunit.
 
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See it's not 100% flush. Maybe I'm being picky...?
 
Ah, yours has the cover round the outside of the HU anyway.

I can see what you mean there but I don't think you will get it completely flush tbh.

Edit: It looks pretty level across the top of the headunit though. It doesn't look like a gap one side and tight on the other.
 
I don't think you will ever get it 100% flush Merlin, it is probably tilted back like that because the DIN aperture is slightly sloping down. If that's the case then there isn't a way around it.
 
Cheers guys. :)

Think I'll just call it a day then and leave it. Not like there's any unsightly gaps or anything but you know what it's like with your car - like to try to get things perfect if poss.
 
Merlin, it looks good. i wouldnt be happy with the slightly inward headunit, it should be flush. what about pushing the other side in? might just be a loose screw which isnt holding it in its cage properly...

my civic is going into the garage this friday to have some component speakers fitted... where did they install your tweeters? do you happen to have photos of that too?
 
It's solid - wont budge, nothing lose.

They put the tweeters into the OE positions which are in the dash, just under the bottom of the windscreen - one far left and one far right. I've no idea where they put the crossover box things though.

:)
 
thebrasso said:
In terms of settings, see if the HU has a 'High Pass Filter' setting, this should filter higher frequency signals to the tweeters so that only they drive your higher frequency sounds and the main drivers handle everything else. That should make things sound a bit cleaner.
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No need for that. The component speakers will already be going through a passive crossover.
 
merlin said:
It's solid - wont budge, nothing lose.

They put the tweeters into the OE positions which are in the dash, just under the bottom of the windscreen - one far left and one far right. I've no idea where they put the crossover box things though.

:)
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hmm, i dont have that on my car - they'll be installing mine in the inner door sill if theres room so it all sits flush :o
 
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