BMW X7 - Audiophile Stereo Upgrade EXPLAINED!!
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Matt is the Michelangelo of installers
Huge compliment. Thanks. 🧑🎨
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I totally agree
I have been following the podcasts for a while now. You have certainly had some great guests on. Keep up the great work. PS these videos of your installs is pretty impressive too 😉
This is a incredible install. Very impressive
Marvellous install😍😎
First of all, you are an incredible designer and installer. I’ve been watching you for years and want you to do my next install.
Thanks bro! 🙌
Beautiful job Matt! I will be coming to see you soon! 😉
Awesome! Thank you.
Great video as always Matt and amazing learnings for newbies like me! I've been really curious - do you feel the sub-optimal location for 3.5 speakers in the doors could be compensated by adding another 3.5 utopia M as the center channel with separate amp? I'm thinking of doing some modifications in my X7 and trying to stick with original speaker placements. Thank you!
Just amazing
Question Matt do you cut the original cables from the car or do you use extra adapters so you won’t cut the manufacturer cables on speakers ???
Can I get 5.25 or 6.5 door speakers in a 2016 bmw x5 xdrive 35i m sport ?
Wow. One heck of a clean install. I have the same x7 m50i with the B&W sound system. What does an upgrade like this cost???
I plan on just running a LC2 Pro with a R2-1200X1 amp and a JL Audio 10TW3 sub. But might use my P312 shallow prefab box. Both boxes fit great under the lid. Not sure which will sound the best.
I've never seen mention of price in any of his videos. I guess if you have to ask, you can't afford. I got a quote from car toys for the install of the 12TW3 pre loaded box, with all other associated JL products for a sub only install, and they were wanting $4K. Based on my only baseline, this looks like a $15K install...😢
Nice work
Thank you!
Matt 👏👏
Great install as always. Where did you get that coaxial to 3.5m cable? Only ones I see are coaxial to coaxial.
Its an AudioQuest 3.5 to rca
Hi, all your installation are really great and I love them. Actually i need some clarification from you, actually I’m using my iPhone as my source and I’m running digital. I got SMSL PO100pro and connected my iPhone through otg cable to SMSL input and i took out optical out directly to the dsp.3. What to know whether this is a good option to go with for digital source.
Analog is much better. Use a DAP wired to a DSP.
@@Darronsanderson Hi, thanks for your reply. Actually i was using a DAP running Analog but after changing to digital the whole system comes alive and accuracy is increased the bass have become tighter and punchy, mids are more detailed and tweeters are sparkling, but with dap it was sounding like compressed. It was like day and night difference.
what is the cost of the build?
No sound demo ?
But the bass from subs can deliver into the cabin or not?🤔
The location of subs are so practical but is it sounds good too?
Yes, of course. The wavelength of subwoofer frequencies are so long that direction really does not come into consideration. There are cases where the subwoofer can load into a certain part of the vehicle creating more energy. But because subwoofer are under a floor or a panel, is not going to muffle the sound as long as there is adequate air movement. The biggest things are to not have resonance, which in turn would locate the subwoofer.
Hey man do you know the Helix or Mosconi DSP"s can do automatic source switching between two DIGITAL sources?
My project is gonna have the Teyes cc3 2k as my main source (bluetooth calls, navigation, amfm rado, basic music). This would be fed to the DSP via Optical connection
Next would be my Aux source, a Fiio DAP. This would be used for critical listening, highest playback quality possible. Connected to the DSP using Coaxial.
Thw reason I am hoping to do automatic switxhing between the 2 digital sources, is beacsue I can control the Fiio playback from the Teyes screen using the Fiio Link app! This will let me keep the Fiio hidden away and control it on my screen or with my steering wheel controls.
It would be perfect if i am able to be listening to the Fiio Coaxial source but have the Teyes Optical source switch on whenever a phonecall or navigation prompt comes in. Then switch back over to the Fiio after.
Thanks³
Yes I understand you can do auto switching. With 3 different sources it becomes confusing for most customers. Also you have different EQ settings from the OEM Radio to an aftermarket source. And yes, you can adjust the input EQ to compensate, but it just becomes very messy. It is very easy for each customer to equate a certain preset with a certain source.
Have you tried the Fiio link app? I was not impressed with it at all even just linking it with my phone. Not sure what it is like on the Teyes you have but I just ended up using the Fiio M11 and ditched the link app.
The auto switching is great on the helix 👍
Always great installations. I would say that location for the conductor is not the best. I had mine in the same location in my truck and it was almost dangerous to try and change settings or adjust volume while driving. Had to custom make a housing for it in the center console. Im sure location in this car made it difficult to put anywhere else. If owner doesnt like to mess around too much with it, should be fine tho.
It was there or the headliner. And we chose the easier to replace option. Based on the dash design, nothing in the console was feasible. Not even a way to get creative. This car was a challenge for space with everything. Even in the spot we put it, it will still difficult.
@@therealmatty_s I fully understand. It was a lot of work for me to find a spot in the center console and the look is not as seamless ( factory) as I would like it to be. Based on your installs I can tell if there was a better spot you would have done it for sure.
Hi Matt why do you keep saying it's best to connect a Fiio or Astell kern DAP to the analog output? to a Dsp. From what I know, the less audio conversations the better, right?
There are quite a few reasons here. I think the biggest reason comes down to file format of your music. If you have DSD files, no aftermarket DSP will process that. By going digital out, you are using the DACs of the DSP and not the player.
There are only a few DSPs that process above 24/96. Therefore, now you need to be extremely selective of the audio files you can play on your device. By going analog out (line out mode), you can play any file that the device supports.
I use to go digital out exclusively until I did a system for a sound engineer and he insisted I did an analog input. (He also had a balanced input with XLRs with a conversion piece.)
When I did the A/B Comparisons of analog vs digital using the same files and same players, I was very surprised. There was additional width and depth (sense of space) going analog out using the DACs of the player vs digital in.
This is not the case for all players as I have AB compared quite a few. But for the flagship Astell (SP1000, SP2000, SP3000) it was pretty obvious.
Lovely install. My only suggestion is to use spotless LED strips for the display panels.
100% agree. We originally use a matching bright white led cobb light was spotless. (As seen in the thumbnail picture). The client wanted RGB and last minute has to swap out the cobb lights with regular non cobb RGB lights. Most RGB cobb lights run off 24v and need a converter. We didnt have anything like that in the amount of time to swap the lights, so we just stuck with the standard RGB LED.
@@therealmatty_s get in contact with ledyi: chinese led manufacturer with very big product range, custom orders and cheap. I only ordered 30m there, as they don´t have minimum order quantity.
@@therealmatty_s I found that using an opal/frosted acrylic border will help to diffuse the singular rgb leds.
@@B15SDMDESIGNS The edge is frosted. Keep in mind, you are looking at it from the edge profile. The piece is not vertical. If this was vertical, you would hardly notice the individual leds. Nothing you can do about that other than 24v cobb LED lights.
Hey Matt, how do you fabricated the grills for the midrange speakers…?!? 🤔
Sorcery. 🧙
Lol @@therealmatty_s
Is there a reason why you used a Helix DSP and not a Mosconi? Beautiful install as usual.
I prefer the DSP controller over the Mosconi. I also like the software of the Helix compared to the Mosconi.
Awesome. Thank you for the reply. I really enjoy your videos.
Matt: What is your feeling on the Audio Control 8-10 DSP?
You said this car from Las Vegas? Do you do out of state customers?
Yes. 99% of the cars we do are from out of state.
Great way to spend 100k plus on a vehicle and stereo equipment.
If you have the money...do it lol
Why is there no demo videos?
Demo videos of what?
@@therealmatty_s of how they sound
@@josetorres5566 you would have to hear it in person. lol. How are you supposed to get a feel for how it sounds hearing it through your iPhone speaker recorded from a video camera?
That’s totally true. A shit audio input will sound equally shit on your speakers. A good audio input will negate the input side but if you don’t have a perfectly linear input to output conversion than you hear a completely different sound. What you shouldn’t forget too is the difference a powerful system can deliver compared to headphones. It is a complete difference when you can just hear music vs hearing and feeling music.
nice car to already want engine oil