Hi guys. Finally i have reached to a point where i dont think i need to upgrade any of my ICE anymore. Im very satisfied on this build already. Also i love to have my own build log for future reference. No showing off intention here. This build is a newbie's build in my journey of SQ. Some Pics to share

1. My Headunit I opted for this CDA-9886 instead of a mainstream CDA-9887 because it has a USB Ready input and comes along with an ipod cable. I have my ipod with me. I barely use USB sticks. Combo it with a PXA-H100 to unlock its Imprint. If not, i would only have bass and treble with no xover. 9886 is just a blank headunit with multiEQ ready @ imprint. Smexy PXA-H100 there. Set all my netowrks to External AP and on the PXA-H100 at 3WAY. Here im running a 3 way active front and a sub at rear. How did i do that? In the imprint menu, after i switched the switch at the side of the processor to 3 WAY. i got this feature for xover. Low, Mid-L, Mid-H and High. Set them to their respectively FS, Low at 40Hz, Mid low at 40HZ too since its a mirror. Mid High at 315Hz HPF and high at 5Khz HPF the Sub and Mid Low, i used a Y splitter and manually adjust the gain from the amp itself. In time alignment mode, i set the distance following my mid low instead of sub. The sub will always be played at a barely heard level. Humming together with my mid low's. the Mid High is set at 18db i will post a video of it running one of these days.






2. My Amps. I did not take a photo of my new PG Ryval Designs 2.150 here. Im so sorry. I will upload it again when i have the chance. These amps are all Ryval Designs amps.
- A4.75 (high, mid high)
- A2.75 (mid low)
- A2.150 (sub-W)

All running active NOW



3. My Speaker driver! cheapo entry level morel maximo 6.5" These are running actives. Discarded the passive xovers here



and my 2.8" mid drivers are from SG Acoustics. Made in thailand. Response frequency at 300Hz

4. My first A-Pillar built. Looks like crap as im still learning in the method of DIY'ing





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This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Apr 14 2016, 09:28 PM

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5. My subwoofer. This is a Phoenix Gold Octane R 12" DVC. Enclosed in a custom box. Measuring 1.25CFU, tuned at 26hz ported at 2.5" round




6. Here's how i stack my bonet. DIY amp rack. Screwed wrongly. Now i have no time to adjust it YET




7. Bought myself the inner door layer, which is originally plastic and changed it to metal. Now it gives better bass response and finally my windscreen can open for the past 2 years (wonder what have i been doing for the past 2 years, didnt even take effort to change it. So my first step was to fully soundproof that. This i did 3 layers. Inner door frame, inner power window frame and outer power window frame. The holes i covered it up with soundproof too (sounded like i have a 8" sub at my door now )





*thanks for viewing. Any comments / critics are welcomed.

Here is how i setup my 3way front those figgures of slope are not correct. that was just messing around

This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Apr 25 2015, 02:35 AM

So, the PG Ryval A.150 had a noisy cap . Wanted it so bad but he said he cant do much but he offer me an exchange on the amp. He said i can choose on 4 selections of amp.

1. Velocity VD502 High End Pro Audio Reference by Blaupunkt (tickled my fancy, subsonic filter, bass boost which i dont really use, level control remote, HP,LP,Flat)
2. Lightning Audio Strike 300.2 (dont really like this, looks too fancy)
3. Rockford Fosgate Prime R152 (no subsonic filter too)
4. Coustic Powerlogic 100W RMS 2 channel (i barely remember the model) (has no subsonic filter)

Here are some pics. Installation time, my phone was out of battery so i didnt have a good overall pic of it but its MINE



VD 502
4Ω / 1 x 300 watts

My 1st 3-way in 2014 vs my new setup in 2015



now

Hmm nice

broken vid link

hurm... something is wrong. Will check back the link later. Dalam office skarang

Test

Got myself a P80RS2 for collection. This unit has like 0% scratches. Told was and old new demo stock. This will totally go inside my collections of Headunits. Hooked up and played around. All i could say that it sounds brighter than my 9886 + imprint. Still fiddling around. No vids yet






Been drooling on this player since early last year. Finally somebody was willing to let it go

Bro we want see more pics of your sexy car Hifi

quite bz bro. heheh.. cari kantau le... end of this month got. still in process of redesign the whole system.

Test for good bass, detailed cymbals... stage width, height and depth

ok. i'll try this. but not now. My daughter go poke2 my mids with lidi untill the surround cone koyak if dust cap alone nvm.

Somehow, your first setup is what more I like with the vocal presentation. The new settings voice sounds like compressed.

its because hp used to record is different. seems like 3gs camera sound quality is like .

Oo. hahah surely it ruined the real thing. next you'll be installing the same mid range or getting another brand/model?

Diff brand Tymphany @ peerless but a newer model and a vifa tweets

This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: May 19 2015, 10:46 AM

So.. another build's in progress. Today i measured out my bonet to make a faceplate. I used a cardboard to take the measurements so that i wont screw up the cuttings like what i ever did before, everything went haywire. So. Enjoy some pics as im grieving because of the rain is delaying my project. The main result is suppose to have a window. Using a plexiglass to show the amps and woofer and hide whatever hideous things i have in the bonet.

This is my usual workbench in my car porch.


This is the face. The cover. There supposed to be a window there but it rained and i cant cut things yet. Takut mati karan



The sky. Its actually dark

Some more.? it's very interesting to see your production.

I wanted to but unfortunately it rained till 7pm. i cant continue. Tomorrow i will continue with it. stay tuned

an update. i think i overcut the sub part. but nvm. waiting for le wild acrylic to come. Anyway, my peerless mid and vifa tweets are comming. should see them pop up on wednesday

Hello, allow me to correct. Bonnet (or hood) is the front engine cover. The "Boot" or "trunk" is at the storage area. For rear engine car the terms still apply. Often come across this misconception. Thank you.

ya. Its actually trunk. but in sarawak we are use to call it bonet. lol.

Boot or Bonnet is British term, Hood or Trunk is American, just like Spanner or Wrench.
No harm at learning and correcting oneself where applicable.'

Anyway, congrats on your enthusiastic DIY ICE build. Me DIY install everything too within my Myvi and to pro standards, all cables and harness adapters specially joined and soldered.
Just fixed a dash USB and BT mic socket on the dash using a spare switch cover bought from Perodua. All easily reversible and won't void any warranty.


This post has been edited by bsl555: May 25 2015, 12:47 PM

i did think bout soldering most of the end wires. but then. only 50% done. mostly on speakers only. power cables, i use distro blocks. but cables at the back are really messy.

Take your time and do up the electrical cables very nicely and best you can. Safety on electricals cannot be compromised..trust me.



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Tu bonet has been unofficial term for either hood or boot lid. Bonet depan or belakang. It's malaysian thing already much like maggi and milo. lol

Tu lah! dah silap.. like the adage "I/We stand corrected" Trouble is, right word for the wrong item. Like "Spanner or Spannar (malay)"..its because of British influence in our education system.

Ok. My mids and tweeters just arrived today. And straight away i started doing my a-pillars. Here are some photos to share. Ill continue again tomorrow. So stay tuned.

The Mids and tweeters. Peerless and Vifa.





Cutting out the speaker rings with a jigsaw. I cant use a router as its way too small



This is the outcome

Continue...

This is the thing that i use to stick the rings to the pillar. For measurement purpose. This time, i make them off axis. Not directly facing to me.

The Hot Glue. I use this because it helps stick the wood and "bones" together to the Pillar.



By using a stretchy cloth, i made the base of the pillar. Its just stretching the cloth over the whole thing. And then apply resin to it so that it hardens. I did not use any fibreglass YET. Fibreglass will only be involved when i will be doing the inner part of the rings.



It was 6pm already when i finished that. So i have to continue again tomorrow. Stay tune for more

Err what happen to your Morel?

after duet, gone with the wind. i only keep the morel mid low 6.5"

Good reason to upgrade also. Morel tweeter is not as good. When its new its also difficult to listen. I run in for almost 8 months. Only now consider listen able.

This post has been edited by sonyman: May 29 2015, 06:53 AM

Update! on my A-Pillar. was away due to gawai and now im back



95% complete

If there's one hifi tweeter I like very much, its SEAS from Norway.
Anyone install ribbon tweeters ah?..that should sound damn good!

SEAS would be a pain in my wallet

fuhhhhh that's one hell of a build! Mad respects that you DIY your own!

I DIY performance parts on my car, but audio stuff i let others do

Also driving Waja here, but mine did up halfway then ran out of money haha.

Nothing much to show, show off my tweeter abit

Why do you have paddle shifter when you are driving a. Manual?
NicE Tweeter .

This post has been edited by sonyman: Jun 7 2015, 10:18 AM

that steering is from what car? Preve? I always wanted to change my steering to preve but not sure if it fits.

Confirm it is preve steering

Can tap along to the music during traffic jams

yeap direct fit, just the steering controls obviously cannot work la haha

I think it can be made to work with suitable adapter box. Certain higher end HU can connect directly and program it on HU to work. I use such HU, but steering no remote buttons. RM20 (ori) buck RC will do fine..

Yeah but the clock spring for the steering wheel is different, unless maybe you can retrofit a Preve clock spring in. Also, not too sure how the buttons inside are wired, if it's linked to a can bus or act as individual switches. Didn't bother wiring it up haha

Completed the A-Pillar

Using small can of kangaroo gum.


Spread evenly to the a pillar at one point to another. I did the center first as that has the most curve areas.


This is the middle section. The fabric is not springy but i did manage to force it.



Complete!





This is my next project. A custom Subwoofer trunk enclosure. Getting prepped up. Gonna put atleast 4kg of fibreglass on the base itself. Will continue when i have more time.

Changed my Equipments again. Got myself a spankin new DLS C6A. Cost me Rm850 for em. Im not sure about that price if its overpriced.



This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Jun 17 2015, 09:00 PM

its too damn over priced....

one shall not be surprised of the prices here in kuching. I was looking for paper cone speakers by DLS here and also in ZTH but cant find. The only i found was Performance K. BTW, whats the price for a C6a at semenanjung?

around 550 last i have seen them... in Miri...

Thanks. I went back to the shop to show my disapointment because of what you said it was super overpriced. infact i wanted a refund. He gave me back RM300. I said that if you dont refund i will make your shop a bad name, no reputation at all in facebook and sort. So now since he gave me back Rm300 and decided to settle it in a good way. Is it still overpriced?

Got moar toys to play around with

Anybody knows on the A/D/S? seriously need help on what it can do

Bought that A/D/S at Rn600 second hand tho.

So i manage to refurbish the A/D/S monoblock. I asked over at DIYMa and the guys there helped me find the technical specs. It does 600W @ 2 ohms and 1200W @ 1 ohm. A very old cheater amp they said. Restoration pics


I use a window cleaner to clean the original acrylic plate. Now it looks fantastic


This was the front plate. Some real scratches there. Still dont know how am i gonna refurbish this. I manage to remove all the dirt grime and double tapes off.


Put in a strip of red LED's. its suppose to be brighter if hooked on a car battery. This, i hooked the LED's +/- wire to my PC molex. Dont think it generates 12v?


Hooked up this baby, and it power's on like an angel

*replaced some capacitors which i find are aging.

Here is some pictures of the teasing tube amp which im gonna use. I belive WIMA film caps are good? No?


Gonna fit over an acrylic plate. To see em insides. Im hiding all the brands


My collection of amps. From the lousiest blaupunkt velocity to the a/d/s. All cap ayam


As a fan of JBL, i picked this old JBL GTO1020 10' high excursion sub. The price was too good to resist. Unused in a box.

Here comes the custom subwoofer enclosure i mentioned before. I used 7 layers of fibreglass. Just some simple photos here.







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Just a lil update on the trunk. Did my custom subwoofer box measuring at 1.75 cfu per chamber with a 3" diameter port and port length is at 8" to get the 32hz response. Getting ready for SQL this august. Still left incomplete is the components at the rear. Now raya. Not in a mood to do some moulding + fibre. And also another deck above the amps where with windows and 2 fan. Managed to test the subs last night. Kinda loud, actually, its quite loud for me.



Oh yea, forgot to mention, im wiring those woofers at Parallel. Both are 2 Ohm subs. amp is running at 1ohm now. As what "people" claimed, my amps runs at 1200W RMS@1 ohm Last night, there were no clips or distortion. Just the right amount of juice.

This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Jul 17 2015, 12:27 PM

your setup change again ah? so many ka chang, must sound dam good hoh....

Change just for SQL only. After that cabut 1 woofer, leave 1 woofer left and cabut the trunk speakers too. Good ah? not sure leh. Let you judge later when i upload vid

vid where can listen one. YOu from SQ go into SQL, wah lau. interesting, now you got to park your car far far away, get a table, a pot of chinese tea, some nice sarawak kuih muih, with a nice chair and sit down, and enjoy the music.

how to listen music on the go?

how to listen ah. Attenuete everything by a few -db and its ok. still can play both. keep 2 settings

updates. 95% complete. Left LED's and a few fabrication.

a short video.

Appologize for the sound recording. I put it at 480p quality. I will post a better audio quality soon.

Cheers

Whoa.never bored looking at your projects

Hi guys. Long time no post. Hehehe... just abit kecewa with the so called SQL event where everyone is playing dum dum dum while im humming hotel california all alone. anyway, car has been stripped from dash, pillars, trunk, carpet. Re-Do the whole car again. This time just concentrating on 3 way semi active setup for the meanwhile. Now shifting to the Dominations Revelations series. First to come was the Dominations Revelations Sadewa mid bass speakers. Just 1 pic tho. Not yet taken more pics. Also the Dominations 28 tweeters forgot to snap. will keep posting soon.

here is my domimonster soon to be setup.

Featuring.....

Sadewa
F50
D28
RS4300 x2
DSP Piggyback.

All by dominations. The last piece to the puzzle will be the ES124'S subwoofer



*all fuses on the amps has been changed to Directed fuse for clearer signals*

Just a video to share.

https://www.facebook.com/kertang.hunter/vid...32454190118942/

Drum roll test from JMLab

Full flex dominations. Still needs tuning i guess. Sorry for the dull sound. Guess it was compressed by facebook or my camera sucks. Id try to make another video soon with a better camera. be back with part 2.

This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Oct 11 2015, 02:26 PM

Nice setup bro..👍👍👍👍👍

thumbs up!

Just sharing. Ive been missing for quite a while. Im back with supports from friends on asking me to dont "pencen" since most of my eq got stolen. Just fooling around with what i can afford. Got 2 videos from 2 different car. One belongs to my lil brother and one is me.

Vid 1.
Alpine 9853 | Mohawk Platinum MP65 on active | Dominations ES12" | Dominations RS4500
- Tweeters run active direct to HU, Mid bass and sub to amp. Budget SQ setup, will add another amp later -



Vid 2.
My updated setup
Alpine 9855 | Dominations ES61 on active | Alpine PDM-F640 | Mohawk 10" Underseat sub. (who say underseat sub not worth it? tune it right. U get enough juice to fill up the front stage.)



Sorry for my potato phone. audio recording like tahi lembu. seems like it capture the high part better than the rest

Remy101 to clear ur doubts about underseat subs. i can make it louder than that but it defeats the purpose of (bass extension)

This post has been edited by HeLLonEarTH: Feb 24 2016, 08:42 PM

Bro, since you're so into DIY, can I suggest you research Tunebox. It allows airplay and DLNA into an optical source or RCA. That way you can start to play from your handphone or ipads to your system.

i mostly use CD. Sometimes i use my phone too. Is it something like a media player box which i can plug in USB/Ipod/AUX and is linked to a headunit using 3.5mm jack?

My setup in my car is like this :

Tunebox --> Processor --> Amps --> Speaker.

And tunebox supports Airplay and DLNA, so compared to bluetooth, the sound quality doesn't drop and because I connect everything using optical the sound is pretty pure. Which also presents the problem of the song quality, any poor song recordings are very evident.

I bypassed my headunit altogether, I don't use it anymore except for rear camera. Even radio I play via my phone through the radio station app.

The Tunebox is a small wireless receiver device. There's other devices out there that do the same thing but I'm only familiar with Tunebox. It's marketed as a home audio device that accepts wireless transmission from phones and other devices to play on your non-wireless home hifi equipment.

aaa i get it. Its like a portable (headunit) but i have a few collections of CD and im not keen on getting an outboard processor anytime soon. I might do that on my other car tho. thanks for the suggestion. By the way. Compared to CD (original) quality. how does it fair?

It really depends on the recording. So far CD beats the crap out of Spotify even when set to highest quality. But FLAC files are as good as CDs.

FLAC files are kinda hard to get by arent they? But i belive FLAC is as good as aac? i mean itunes or what format it uses? no?

FLAC files are quite easy actually. Torrent! hahaha.. I have no idea about ITunes/AAC but I'd assum ITunes is pretty high quality since you'd have to pay for each song you download. Only issue I have with FLAC is how stupidly huge the songs are. Smallest song I have is 30Mb and the bigger 160mb... that's just for one song!

flac is way more better than aac..

you dah running flac ke? im so outdated of the ICE scene lately

if i am not using, i wont dare to say which is better than which...FLAC is in my pc for almost 5 years ago

I still remember the old days of flac debates

Wellll..... Just some updates AGAIN.

Added in..


An Eclipse E5503CMT (runs 3 way active and individual EQ for each channel)

Changed my tweets to full range drivers





Now i have an official ES62

Will post the tunings and videos later. Tuning using IPad audiocontrol app + pink noise cd. Seems like its a pain in d butt as a outboard processor will have more control on the EQ curves n settings.

Currently running these drivers / speakers @

Low @ 64Hz 6db Slope
Mid @ 80Hz HPF / 400Hz 12db slope LPF (bandpass)
High @ 640Hz 6db slope HPF

Wont a FLAC player / device cost a bomb? Im still comfortable with CD's tho. I dont mind bringing my CD bag whenever i enter the car.

If i go FLAC, wont i need a portable FLAC player? and then plug in via aux rite? Wont it degrade the sound? just wondering as i have no knowledge of portable media device. As for USB, i have a slight hint of understanding. Im afraid that ( Portable media device already converted from Digital to Analog > AUX > Analog convert to Analog again no?)

Ok. Here is a picture of me tuning.


App i used.


Used RTA.

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Before tuning.


After tuning.

Will fine tune again once i can get hold of UMIK-1 from miniDSP.

Here's a simple VID. Best viewed at 480/720p.

Bro, FLAC players are ridiculously expensive. But the FLAC player I'm using is my Android phone!

the models from pioneer/alpine seems reasonable (i think i've posted on another thread about it)

For flac compatibility, I was thinking about having full DA (diggital audio) route. My main concern is the dsp, of whether it can deal with 24/192 injects from lets say Fiio X3 2nd gen optic out. Not saying that 24/192 or any higher bitrate is better but yea I have some of them in my collection and wondering how they perform with ICE setup. Candidates were Helix dsp pro and that Alpine PXa h800. But, lately reputable brands like phoenix gold and audiocontrol have entered digital processing so the wait could be worth doing while knowing helix dsp pro and alpine h800 were already a major establishment.

Due to major swing in my investments, I have to use the budget for ICE to open new platforms so that at the end of the road I wont be desperately selling the setup just to have something on my plate day one.

more updates. Dekit my Alpine amp and got myself finally a good amp. Might be cap ayam for others but its not everyday i can afford a Rm2k+ amp. Got myself a Flux FA4.100. Some pics.





Installation time


a simple short video.



Critics welcomed

hard to critic through youtube la, you organize TT we come audition

U in kuching

fly the car over la

Some updates.

I changed my player to a Eclipse CD7000 for a few weeks till i have enough cash for a dream come tru Denon headunit.

The eclipse that i used for a few weeks CD7000. Has a very nice vocals on this. Vocals on this baby is clear. Without altering any EQ n other aesthetics. But sadly, i sold it off.



Once i got the cash that i need. I removed all of my RCA (used to be Flux BC cables) and changed all of it to Tchernov Standard 2IC. This is my first most expensive RCA ive ever owned. All 4 cables are 1.65m of length. Cost me RM520 each.



And my long awaited Denon DCT-A100. That moment it came to the post and to my palms
The moment i tested it at my test bench. I knew its not those overhyped headunits. Ran active on my test bench. My cheapo Dominations Buddies sounded like expensive speakers. Used those Remastered CD's "audiophile"



And got myself a cheap DSP for me to go active




Dominations The Corpus Callosum. Its based on Macrom EXT.A1DSP

Final pics. I love that combo. Especially at night



Thats all folkes. Video will be posted later.

That's one bloody good HU. Denon's are amazingly good. Wait till you start playing with mods like the batcaps and expensive oil caps and all for modding the HU

Some of you might be familiar with the brand Flux, Yep.... Dekit my dominations components and went for an upgrade. I went with Flux Spirit. Tho i changed the grills on it to use flux basic because

1. Im scared that my daughter will be poking things into it like she did before
2. The grills on basic is honeycomb and has a full look to it compared to spirit.

Changed all my speaker cables to Tchernov cables. Yet still, all this mods, not even keen to join any competition all for self pleasure






That pillar is those aftermarket pillar. I dont even know who made em and what. All i can say that its damn thin. I had to do some adjustments and add some layer of soundproof inside.


Some tchernov speaker cables. Just their entry level cables. Not willing to fork out RM80/M cables.

Next to come is another Flux FA4.100 and a Sub.