Also … some more on the stereo debacle!
I experimented this afternoon with grounding the Kenwood head unit at the Boston Acoustics amp instead of using the car wiring harness, to see if the engine whine in the speakers was due to a ground loop. But there was no improvement.
Also, disconnecting the RCA outputs at the head unit had no effect.
So it seems like the amp is picking up noise from the supply or the RCA cables – more testing needed.
The sound remains much worse than I remember the Harmon Kardon system being (only last week!)
There is significantly less bass, and the mid range is “muddy” so that vocals are indistinct.
Difficult to be more specific – but I am hoping for better understanding with assistance from “TacoTim” (on MCOL.
I plan to return to Tweeter tomorrow to see if they can eliminate the engine whine and improve any of the sound quality. But I am really extremely unimpressed with them at the moment … I was led to believe that they knew what they were doing, but apparently that is not true.
M&I / GBMINI 