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Yes for about 2 years now getting bigger in presence. I love the gear, and honestly think it is the best manufacturer out there as a whole company. even though they are operating across the ocean away from Italy.

I see some of the stuff posted here and if you are listening to them.... BBY is screwed. I am not bashing you on a personal level, but I will be straight up. BBY sells band aids plain and simple. You guys have to worry about every type of vehicle, where I specialize in a few makes. You have to deal with the price conscious consumers looking for the cheapest thing to get them buy, where I usually quote a system that cost as much as a New KIA, and it brings up another point, I have clients that I build a relationship with, you guys have "buyers" in and out and never see them again or follow up unless they have a problem. your techs are "installers" not once are they ever referred to as techs, thankfully because some are just dumb. I have seen some half assed installs from BBY but i have seen many more from the so called specialists... by no means are BBY any better or worse than the "specialists" as a salesman, you have to look at what the future goals are for you, is it a career? Hell no, as you will be lucky to reach middle class financial standards doing it. but lets say you are going to be a manager one day. as a salesman you have to be the authority when they come to you. find their needs and wants, budget and give them a good, better, best solution. if you do not know, let them know you will research it and get back to them, do not BS them. and do it, get back to them! Be professional and dress as you are being inspected everyday by them, as you are. I go in there to get something I see these slobs and think to myself WTF are they thinking... but i know what they are thinking, it is temporary... but wouldn't you want to excel even temp working to a career? be the authority, know as much as you can about basic acoustics, integration equipment, the basics of audio and vehicle buses (IE MOST, CAN, Class2, GMLAN...etc) know your products, know which ones are easier to operate and make sense to you perspective "buyers" sell quality first! and the warranties... they need to be approached a bit differently. let them know that the manufacturer only offers a 1 year warranty but you can extend it to 3 years. I do think the warranty you guys offer is very good for consumer protection and is like insurance for the customer, but I think everyone approaches it poorly. It is there for them, yes it costs money and BBY makes a boat load, but it is there for their protection. Sorry to go on and on... and get off the subject...

I have 5 kids (that I know of) and I drink mountain dew like it was water... maybe I should send my child support payments to the moron that started the rumor that Mountain Dew won't get her pregnant...

well what do you expect, Best Buy is not paying for the right people, they want some part timers to keep the costs down. I have very little respect for them but I do respect the company a tad bit. it is a vicious circle. further my buddy Murphy has actually made the top 10 installers in the USA when he was at BBY. He knows his alarm systems for sure, and i think i called him 2 times for a question I was brain farting over. I wish they can turn it into very knowledgeable people and authorities in the field, but it won't ever happen. plus they would need to become basic fabricators.

I had the Dan Wesson .357 the S&W and DW are awesome revolvers. When I was in Columbia, the drug interdiction team there uses them as a standard side arm. something about hitting the target hiding behind a vehicle I wish I never sold it

And thanks for the compliments everyone, I am not saying any of your suggestions are wrong either, I am just very satisfied with the end results

http://www.northolmstedperformance.com/ind...&Itemid=208 6 disc DVD changer which is the AV input for the headunit and rear seat headrests (1 of the 3 sources ...DVD changer, 505 DVD player, or the iPod video) Yes, I just quoted a system using the Thesis line recently, and had one myself. The Mille speakers and Audison LRx amps I can honestly justify the cost when making a quote, the Thesis line... well I will leave that to the guy that has everything in the world already and wants to stimulate the economy. As for the bit one, what is it going to do for me honestly? x-over and time alignment? the passive crossovers have both, sure not as meticulous as the bitone but when the passives were being designed they took into a lot of considerations along with component selection, it wasn't built just to have, it was purpose built. the whole speaker system was. The tweeters have a tuning chamber to smooth out the 1k range the crossovers have simple time alignment for both the mid and tweet or separate the high pass contour network which shapes the mids presence (driver enhancement, passenger, or both) the attenuation level on the tweeter The passives are the same price almost as what the bitone is, but Morphy's Law dictates what will go wrong will, and at 500 miles away I do not want to have to jump in a vehicle to make that drive. I have had issues with 2 already, and i will give the bitone credit, it has a more natural sound then the Rockford 360.2, but the 360.2 has it's positives also remember the days of just jumping in the vehicle and driving and the only control you had to do when you heard your favorite song was volume up? this is the same way. No selecting EQ curves, loading DSP settings. I gave him subwoofer control though up or down 5DB Ray have you tried the Mille xovers yet?

I wish you could also... it really makes me a true believer... I mean we all know that a lot of shop owners talk some serious BS and trash talk... but I am really onboard with this product 100% and stand by my comments 100% as I only have my reputation... anyone in the neighborhood that wants to hear when it comes back to turn the sub down come on by. I will let you all know ahead of time what day.

no need for a bit1... are you out of your mind about those crossovers? Ray do you understand how simple of a system this is? they only thing the guy has to change is the volume toss a bitone in and chances are it will fail... bitone isn't all that, it has it plus's but it also has an equal amount of negatives... I don't want to have to hear, my system won't turn on... yada yada yada... this is simplicity... and bullet proof where he will never have to come back for a problem... which is why I went the Alpine route... I was going to add a navtv interface for the camera on the stock radio... a dietz piece for the ipod... you know all the shiet that will go wrong... it was simpler to just jettison the BS and link everything together with Alpine since they got their shit together with the new navigation and the new bluetooth piece. hope it makes sense... I am trying to say it without jinx'ing myself LMAO! Also the A4 with the same exact system minus the BT was here last week, and the customer listened to this RS4 and was amazed. So I do have a reference

also I tried the active xovers in the amp during tuning, it sounded awesome, but I bypassed them and it was even better... so I did try it first honestly yep stock rears, stock bose amp running them also... but it is so faded forward you can't even hear the turds... you really are blown away by the front by the amount of energy/volume that you forget about the rears... even the rep was like... oh yeah were there rear speakers?...

bi amped crossover. amp x-overs off (except for sub) full signal straight to the mille xovers... sounds 100x better... let the passives handle it all and they do it quite well

Well I wrote this for another forum which is non audio inclined, just thought I would toss it in here also... I haven't got beat up in a while This is a cut and paste for 411 Well I had this here for quite some time, to do a simple audio system in, well simple for the client. I had 100 other things to do and since he was in no hurry for the vehicle and was out of town for a month I took it in. Needs and wants The vehicle had factory navigation and factory iPod control. But it obviously sucked, he wanted a better navigation, iPod controls, rear camera, and an audio system that has impact. He wanted nothing to take up the space of his interior and he wanted as if it was factory installed as much as possible. So an Alpine system went in with an Audison 5 channel amplifier feeding a Hertz Mille component system and 10" Mille subwoofer. system up front starts with: Alpine IVA-W505 touchscreen Sirius interface navigation bluetooth 6 disc DVD changer iPod rear camera the rear seat passengers have 2 Alpine 7" screens to watch video on also with their own headphones, can control the DVD changer, single DVD player (W505), or iPod video from the rear screens the driver can control everything via the touchscreen control, wireless remote control, or via the steering wheel controls the audio signal for the rear speakers is generated by the Alpine and fed to the factory Bose amplifier which then goes to the factory rear speakers in the door the front and sub audio originates at the Alpine, is fed to the Audison LRx5.1k amplifier. here is where it is a bit funky. It is a 5 channel amplifier, the A channels are class "A" biased for sound quality and are rated at 60 watts. the B channels are class "AB" and are rated at 170 watts, and the C channel is a single "D" class sub channel rated at 750 watts. These are all rated at 4 ohms and can generate more power if loaded down with more speakers except the "A" channels as it is as close to a class A amplifier as possible. The front speakers are Hertz Mille components, the MLK2's, by far the best sounding set of speakers I have ever had the pleasure of listening too. Note: the Mille's are unforgiving, if it is a crap recording you will know it, as the speakers are so dynamic that you will here every flaw in the recording. I listen to alot of Sheffield and Telarc recordings, and can tell you first hand where the flaws are. a few other notes: 1.) the bass and treble controls on the radio are bypassed, which means they aren't being used. (yes the Hertz/Audison system is that good) 2.) the Mille crossovers are bi-amped, which means I can run the individual channel through the passive crossover for a the speaker it affects. such as A channel is output to the tweeter input on the Mille crossovers and the B channel is output to midbass input... same with the other side 3.) the Mille crossovers are very large for a few reasons such as the all aluminum chassis, the use of the best audio grade components, has a built in delay circuitry for either the mid, tweet or both. further it has a feature called HFC which contours the high frequencies for better imaging for the driver or passenger. 4.) the subwoofer is a custom fiberglassed enclosure in the trunk and is bolted to the vehicle utilizing factory holes, the enclosure has nutserts embedded into the baffle for the woofer bolts 5.) the amplifier is mounted to the rear deck on a custom welded amp rack utilizing the factory holes 6.) the Mille components are mounted to a metal frame in the trunk well that looks like it is protecting a pump for the suspension under the vehicle. 7.) Most people cut the factory molex plug to run wire into the door, we re-pin the harness with 16 gauge wires for the tweeter, and utilize the factory 14 gauge speaker wires for the midbass. we don't cut up any wires or drill holes in a vehicle. 8.) I utilized the factory shark fin antenna for the GPS NAV and Sirius Satellite radio. I made a few adapters. no need to run new antennas when the factory's will do, and look stock OK so with all those notes, the audio comes out raw from the alpine for the front speakers, goes to the amp via a set of RCA's and the A channel output goes to the input of the tweeter on the crossovers, then out to the tweeter. same with the mid. The speakers are mounted in the factory locations. It was as if it was made for the Mille component system, however the tweeter needs the shallow tuning chamber and not the large chamber as the depth is not there. basically it affects the "Q" around the 1k frequency range the subwoofer originates at the Alpine head, to the amp on the C channel input and then outputted to Mille 10 sub. The subwoofer itself is a monster in size, it will compete with a JL 10W7 all day and play lower when using a small sealed enclosure. We are placing this subwoofer in a 1/2 cubic foot enclosure lined with polyfill dampening materials. basically the woofer is going into a smaller box than what it was shipped in. The woofer is power hungry and has an awesome output when first played... you would think you would have a 12" instead of a 10" woofer... next is the fun part, 2 weeks down the road the client calls up because he turned it on and his woofer now sounds like a pair of 12's. When the woofer "breaks in" and the suspension and surround loosen up, the efficiency is through the roof. So how does it sound? Unbelievable! I had it tuned and ready to go Wednesday. I had a music producer wanting to demo the system Wed, who was totally blown away, Thursday I had a good friend that is an Iasca sound quality judge a few years back listen to it also and demo it. Both were blown away by it and the judge couldn't believe the simplicity of the system. I am going to get the vehicle back in about a week to turn down the bass and if any of ya's want to demo it first hand let me know, I will make it available. I will let you know what day when I confirm with the client. Also I had the factory cover in front of the woofer, but the client wanted the woofer to be shown and accessible so I tossed a quick grill on it for him. I didn't want to... but he asked nicely This is the equipment layout and this is the link to photo album http://www.northolmstedperformance.c...rs4&Itemid=208 sorry about the long write up but I had to start somewhere with it, I will probably cut and paste it to my site in the future there's ya go......

have 7 on the home computer and vista at work... 7 is awesome.

pretty crazy Steve...

very nice vehicle

Brembo

I know. I gave him hell when he named his son, told him pyramid and legacy just took it over

I heard memphis was going out of business... also maybe have him tat some six pack abs on ya... LMAO oh yeah JK on the Memphis part I think I have a bigger gut than you though... I just hit 220

was on my way to work, very sad day... even sadder when you seen the fireman charging in to go help minutes before the buildings came down. Did anyone see it on the History channel last night? it angers me way too much to tell ya how I really feel, but to sum it, I would like to be in charge of the USA for a few weeks... :whistle:

Well I wanted to play when in high school, but was a burn out with a better arm than the quarterback, but I liked to smoke and my hair was longer than most of the cheerleaders... plus I liked my leather jacket and I didn't like the play calling... whatever happened to you go long, you go short, and yo...toss it back to me and then head deep? this 51 sweep left strong jive was like ..."say what" needless to say I didn't get to play... However, my younger brother is the linebacker coach for the local div1 team, and my 9 year old is the starting safety for the local city league, he will also play middle linebacker, receiver, and running back in some packages. his first game is Sunday, I can't wait. Chances are they won't win since it is a 90% new team and the others have 90% of the year before returning. his first day of practice I told him he was a headhunter and only think of crush, kill, destroy when the other team snaps the ball... it is working for him so far. Also with the Cleveland Clowns drama NFL team, i rather see the high school games as i believe it is more professional and disciplined... oh yeah cheaper

I only do the Alpine 10.2" PKG-RSE2, well let me rephrase that, most of the time... I did do an audiovox unit a few weeks ago and it came with some trim panels to change the color of it which I thought was pretty cool... the unit seems to work well. Alpine... well there really isn't much out there in line of quality so I will suffer. for the larger monitors, I have used some power acoustik in the past, they were OK but nothing too impressive, definately flimsy and had a cheap feel to it

Mike, you maybe want to start it off with most vehicles, as battery technology is changing rapid and along with the vehicles electrical systems. Such as hybrid vehicles in which today's don't come close to playing by the same rules as hybrids of a few years ago. also be more specific with the gear and reference yours at maxxsonics such as when referencing the 2k watt amp, the Brutus would of been nice to talk about... though you said it needed 220 and the manual states 200... (had to mess with one last week for a friend) the manual might be going off the old principles of 10 amps for every 100 watts. Tell Studley I said dic for him...

Yo Chode, what is a lehmans rundow? Active is easy as it is done prior to amplification electronically, where passive is done before the speaker utilizing the amplifiers output power. Chode were you the same chode on the RF forum?

I was going to say it, but some think I am harsh anyways, but very true.

not with this case.