Recommendations/Guidance on Audio System
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Recommendations/Guidance on Audio System
Wife and I purchased an 03 350Z about six weeks ago. It's not a daily driver and we're not a young couple. We're not audiophiles either, but here's the current set up: Head unit is JVC KW-AV60BT, installed by previous owner. We had front and rear JL Audio TR650-CXI's installed last month. We don't have a SW or external amp. We've never had a head unit in any of our other cars, much less one with a built in equalizer. Wife complains of 'screechy' vocals and guitars on some songs and is trying to adjust various levels. She said it sounded like that before we had the speakers installed. We mostly play tuner and Pandora. Question is this: Do we need to just tune the unit? If so, what is the best way to do this? Do we need to purchase a different kind/brand of head unit, recommendations? Do we need an amp, sw, etc? Don't really want to sink alot of $$ into this since this is really just our weekend thing. Not interested in installing myself either. Any advice, help, etc. is greatly appreciated!
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Wife and I purchased an 03 350Z about six weeks ago. It's not a daily driver and we're not a young couple. We're not audiophiles either, but here's the current set up: Head unit is JVC KW-AV60BT, installed by previous owner. We had front and rear JL Audio TR650-CXI's installed last month. We don't have a SW or external amp. We've never had a head unit in any of our other cars, much less one with a built in equalizer. Wife complains of 'screechy' vocals and guitars on some songs and is trying to adjust various levels. She said it sounded like that before we had the speakers installed. We mostly play tuner and Pandora. Question is this: Do we need to just tune the unit? If so, what is the best way to do this? Do we need to purchase a different kind/brand of head unit, recommendations? Do we need an amp, sw, etc? Don't really want to sink alot of $$ into this since this is really just our weekend thing. Not interested in installing myself either. Any advice, help, etc. is greatly appreciated!
Just tune it then figure out if it's so bad, you need to replace.
JVC is like most other HUs in that it's completely electronically tuned, no pots, no sliders. I'm betting that the radio is set very high on the equalizer and/or treble settings.
I would "flatten everything" first; that is, accept all default settings. You'll see how to do this as you toggle through sound adjust settings.
Then go into the EQ adjust setting and MANUALLY change the low-mid-high ranges to your liking and disregard the pre-set EQ settings they allow.
That should take care of the high pitched annoyance.
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As Mic advises, try every “tuning” and “equalizer” option you have available on your H/U. Your goal is matching the H/U output to your speakers. If you have quality speakers, you might need an external amplifier for best sound because the internal amplifiers in H/U’s are typically rather weak.
You definitely do NOT need a Sub-W for good sound if you have decent speakers capable of handling bass.
You definitely do NOT need a Sub-W for good sound if you have decent speakers capable of handling bass.