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New shoes, just in time for rainy season 😄

Massive audio nerd opinion: The auto-eqs, auto-time-alignment... they all suck. They either just outright suck, or they make the car a one-seat-wonder, where it sounds good if you are in the driver's seat and 5'10 tall but the rest of the cabin is a muddy mess. They also miss the fact that by and large "flat" sounds kinda s*** anyway, at least to my ears. Bump everything below about 150hz, -3dB notch at 2khz, roll off from maybe 12khz up, perfecto.

Got the long block assembled finally, and half-mounted the bull bar, just need to make some new brackets to hold it up at the top:

Araldite fixed the crack. 20200818_174210 by JAFA851, on Flickr This is the throttle body. Does it look like it needs cleaning? With a squirty can of snake oil from Supercrap? 20200818_182344 by JAFA851, on Flickr

Based on New Plymouth great friendly team Actually does know Subarus Good service and worked to get things done on time even when some specialist tooling and work need to be outsourced. http://www.hodgemotors.co.nz

So I finally found the time ( and a spare car to use ) last night so I pulled the air chamber off the car and put some Araldite in the crevice where the crack is. Should be able to put it back on the car tonight. The pipe that goes between the air filter and the chamber, the locating tab wasn't really lined up the best so I'll make sure that is right when I put it back together. Everything else looks ok in terms of nothing seems loose or wiring damaged etc. I haven't cleaned the throttle body, and not sure what condition it's in, might have a look tonight before I put the intake chamber back on.

Yes and i own way way way way to much audio gear. time alignment is s*** unless you can change the seating location, pioneer did that with theirs. Flat is ok if your speakers are flat response but generally lower end ones aren’t Compared to home speakers car speakers are really s***. Making them flat at the amp is good since the head unit can still make the personal touches. 41 band eq in amp to get rid of the speaker issues has to help the harsh response jumps. plus parametric in headunit can make personal touches. I have 5-7 bands there. when I had awesome speakers in the car and auto eq with the old pioneer hedunit it sounded really good. But that was $1299 a pair components. Which are now in a swift I don’t own somewhere. have very similar eq to you on my pc with APO eq which is free. for headphones something like massive cut at 35 and below -24db headphone suck down low Wide bump at 50hz +3db curve looks like ported sub response tail ends about 100Hz wide bump at 400hz vocals 1.3db depends on headphones I’m using. Notch at 1.66kHz but very narrow Q. Seems to be an area most speakers spike up a bit. Moves between 1-2kHz depending on headphones. Roll off over 12kHZ but don’t need it as much anymore with the burson DAC headphone amp it’s super accurate and detailed. Heaps of the eq issues are the bloody op-amps so replacing those is worth it.

My shameless link to the Subaru stuff I hold - https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZxKxr7ZQyYuh3GXAOFsYfAgPy2WYffoLwL7 Full Service Manuals (FSM) for most models pre early 2010s