This system build is coming along. I got all of my permanent power and speaker wiring, and RCA cables run over these past two weekends, some of the trunk lighting installed, and my old Pioneer Premier and Alpine head units out of the dash.
I temporarily reinstalled the factory tweeters after bypassing the capacitors so that I can run them fully active. I had blown both of the new Dayton silk some tweeters that I had installed because I overdrove them without any protection. I have since purchased some replacements, but they need to be slightly modified before I can insert them into the tweeter receptacles in each of the dash speaker grilles. The factory tweeters will serve the purpose for the time being, and they are now running in series with my home-made tweeter protectors. I found some red incandescent bulbs and mounted them in some generic housings I purchased at the local auto parts store,
I was really wanting to hear this new Pioneer 80th Anniversary DEX-P99RS 4-way network head unit running the system, so I temporarily got it connected in the dash,
so that I could get all my amplifier gain levels set to their initial settings, and run the Auto Time Alignment/Equalizer feature of the head unit in AUTO mode.
I had to run it several times to find out where the head unit wanted to set my levels at, make some gain adjustments on my amplifiers and re-run it each time. Between four separate gain controls, It took about 10 runs, but I finally got the amps set to right about where they need to be, which resulted in the levels of all eight outputs on the head units' display to be within 1 to 2 db from each other,
And as you can also see in the picture above, the unit automatically set my crossover slopes to 12db/octave.
I have now adjusted each slope to 24db/octave as you can see here,
in order to keep all of my speakers in phase with each other, and I will save that as a custom crossover setting to use as I run the Auto TA/EQ process once more in CUSTOM mode this time to force the unit to use 24 db/oct crossovers instead.
Then I can add a shelf filter for the subwoofer, because everyone always likes a little more low end,
I'll have to run Auto TA/EQ again when I install the permanent replacement Dayton tweeters, but that's okay, it helps me learn how this deck operates.
From what I have heard so far, this system kicks ass! Everything is crystal clear up front, the test CD that I use for image placement uses voices in five different areas of the front stage which are perfectly placed. Ariana Grande's a capella song Raindrops (An Angel Cried) sounds perfectly clear, and I'm not even done yet.
Edit: Added the pictures.