HU upgrade

[sillyboybmxer]

i have an alpine cde 137 hd bt and love it

[2forme]

Originally Posted by Supermassive

Yeah the X940BT works fine in both those regards, I am sorry if i sound underwhelmed with the HU, it's really a good buy, I'm just an audio snob is all...



No actually i have not heard them in action, but since no one has shown in a vid or pics that one of these Android HU's has the ability to set crossover cutoffs on each channel, audio stage "height", and volume control for each channel, all from the HU...I'm just gonna go ahead and be a pessimist and ASSUME they dont have those options. A head unit could produce the most perfect sound in the world but without being able to adjust it for a particular setup its not worth my time. Sure I could manually set my crossovers at the crossover itself, or set the amp up manually every time i change my choice of music, but I dunno that sounds like a bit more work than I want to do everytime i want to switch from EDM to Classic rock...

If however you can produce a pic showing these options being readily available on one of your beloved Android units then i will eat the crow I've dished.

I learned a long time ago that in the car audio world, you get what you pay for and should have known before i bought the X940BT that I wouldnt be getting all the options I wanted, but the price was too good to pass up and i just wanted something to do on a weekend so I bought one and installed it out of boredom.

Also I am extremely skeptical about running a no name brand HU on any system I build, especially since I run Focal or JL exclusively for everything in my systems except the HU...I am seriously sad that Eclipse went kaput, because now I'm stuck with brands like Kenwood, Sony, Pioneer, and Alpine (Alpines have always been good just wasnt a fan of their single DIN's back in the day).

Oh well I'm rambling now, kinda hope that those Andorid units can prove me wrong...like I said, they are the next logical step in car audio, they just need to put it all into a reference level HU to prove it's not a gimmick.

Oh, I thought you had tested it. I wanted to add your results to the thread.

I'm assuming that by "per channel" you mean FL, FR, RL, RR, Sub. Sadly, in stock form this isn't the case. The Adayo unit had Low, Mid, and High frequency filters for the 4 main sound channels. Both have sound stage controls which essentially control bias and could give higher volumes on different speakers.

The Ca-Fi unit comes with Gingerbread which allows for DSP controls if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to do some research to see if any apps provide that functionality. I haven't done that yet since my filters and gain are controlled on the amp itself. I'll let you know if I find anything.