I've been researching car audio stuff for 2.5 years now and stumbled on some good articles about cabinet design and resonance of boxes written by the founder of this site and figured I'd join to see what else I can find here.
I have not focused on home audio much because my wife doesn't like bass and doesn't like anything loud so my opportunity to listen to a nice home theatre system is non existent. I bought my system in 2018.
I have a Yamaha RX-A2070BL receiver, Klipsch RP-500M Bookshelf speakers up front alongside a Klipsch RP450C center channel, earthquake Sound CP8 Couch potato 8 inch slim sub. I have some commercial grade 8 inch coaxials in the ceiling above the couch for the rear. I used the Yamaha YPAO mic to calibrate it all and that's it. Nothing special, it just works for our limited use.
Curious, I never went back into the Yamaha software and in 2018 I was clueless about processors and whatnot but did the Yamaha calibration do time alignment and set crossovers for the different speakers?
In my truck, in case anyone is interested, I have
- Helix Ultra DSP processor,
- 2 x Zapco 150.6AP 6 channel amps
- Gladen Aerospace 28 1 inch tweeters in the sail panels
- Audible Physics NZ3 3" midranges on the dash,
- JL ZR-800-CW 8 inch midbass in infinite baffle in the kicks,
- Phase Aliante 10SI 10" front subwoofer in custom 0.5 cubic foot sealed center console enclosure and
- Acoustic Elegance IB18AU-4 18" subwoofer in infinite baffle under the crew cab seats in my truck.
I get 25-30 minutes of bliss driving to and from work at any volume level I want! I listen to everything from SQ oriented stuff to rock, metal, punk, electronic, rap, r&b, country... you name it, I listen to it!
Anyways, looking forward to some good reads on this forum. Cheers!
