Hooking up car audio to my N802s..

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  • Race Car Driver
    Super Senior Member
    • Mar 2005
    • 1537

    Hooking up car audio to my N802s..

    :E

    I figured that would get your attention.
    With the lady out of town for the next 2 days I have some free time to play with some of my car audio gear thats been playing closet duty for some time now.

    Round 1 was getting a Pioneer Priemer copper chassis head unit and some old school Priemer ODR (Optical Digital Reference) Class A amps hooked up. These have no RCA inputs, they use optical inputs. I was very impressed with the sound! Not the first time I have dabled with hooking up some nice car audio gear to the 802s, but the first time I decided to get a stereo setup goin. The ability of the amps to drive the 802s sounds right on par with any of my home amps I have used.







    Round 2 was hooking up my straight from Japan, Carozzeria (Pioneer) head unit. This is a 3rd gen version of the first one used, however it was never sold in the states. Again, I used the ODR amps, sounded very similar. This wasnt a head unit critical listening comparison. Rather seeing what ODR amps sound like and what kind of EQ adjustment they allow. The ODR amps have built in EQ that is adjusted the a proprietary Pioneer Cable. They do not use RCA inputs rather optical in and out. You can daisy chain up to 8 together and the head unit has optical in and outputs.



    After seeing the difference in the 2 head units I moved on to a high end Sony amp from the same era. This was Sony's top amp of the time with no built in crossover. With this I added the Carozzeria network EQ as the Sony has RCA inputs (like 99.9% of every other amp on the market)
    Once again, the amp drives the 802s just fine. It sounds wonderful with as much bass and clarity as I have heard with other home amps. I am very pleased with this amp and hope I can use it in a car some day soon.





    Some pics of the goodies



    And random pics of the type of adjustment this headunit and eq have.





    Some of the amps next up to bat. 8)





    B&W
  • Ken49r
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2007
    • 312

    #2
    Chris,

    Just noticed the beer can used to reference the size of those amps. Those things belong in a rack.

    Nice job.

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    • Hammie
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2005
      • 304

      #3
      That's one of those 4oz pony cans, right?

      Very interesting experiment.
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      • Race Car Driver
        Super Senior Member
        • Mar 2005
        • 1537

        #4
        And tonights listening is brought to you by my recently aquired Sony reference Z50. It took me 3 years to track one down that didnt cost an arm and a leg. (it still was not cheap!)

        This bad boy is from 1997. Sony wanted to build a "cost is no object" system to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The complete CD sytem consisted of this player setup. (looks are deceiving!) It weighs about 25lbs, just the CD player and tuner! Its all metal, machined aluminum with copper insides and was $8,000.

        The entire "package" was about $17,000 plus custom install for the CD changer, 3 amps, 2 ribbon tweets, 2 woofers and 2 subs. It took over 3 years but I aquired the entire setup 2nd hand.

        Not mine, but this is what it looks like



        And here is mine









        Right now I am listening to DSOTM, the 802s sound amazing. There is a depth I havent heard in along time... if ever? Its nice hearing a matched system. Wish I had a matched home system to compare it to just for shits and giggles. This is the fun stuff, comparing all these goodies that rarely if ever see use in the home.

        All I know is right now I should be in bed but I cant convince myself to step away from the couch.
        B&W

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        • duketbrd88
          Member
          • Jul 2009
          • 54

          #5
          Very nice!

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          • jamesdaman
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2008
            • 136

            #6
            How the hell do get car audio to work in a home environment lol???

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            • BlueSander
              Member
              • Apr 2008
              • 56

              #7
              wow, what kind of car was those belonged to?

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