Evo X Failure
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My PSM has done fine and I bought it used. I just don't have room enough for anything bigger. I imagine if the cables going into it were not secured well the vibration could crack the solder joints on the circuit boards.
One thing I wondered about the DSI2 though, how many EQ sliders does it have? That's one thing about the Arc, I wish it had more sliders instead of just adjusting the frequency points for the ones that are there. I imagine the end result could be the same, but I would like ten bands or so as opposed to the seven of the PSM. Also Juice do you know if the DD unit has adjustable voltage on the outputs, or is it just set to 5v? Maybe one day if I get a big boy bike I can try one out.
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I think it's interesting that the DD DSI2 has both PC input and apparently bluetooth. Does the bluetooth work for tuning out of the box or do you need to buy and adapter? I see it has a bluetooth port on it in the pictures.
My PSM has done fine and I bought it used. I just don't have room enough for anything bigger. I imagine if the cables going into it were not secured well the vibration could crack the solder joints on the circuit boards.
One thing I wondered about the DSI2 though, how many EQ sliders does it have? That's one thing about the Arc, I wish it had more sliders instead of just adjusting the frequency points for the ones that are there. I imagine the end result could be the same, but I would like ten bands or so as opposed to the seven of the PSM. Also Juice do you know if the DD unit has adjustable voltage on the outputs, or is it just set to 5v? Maybe one day if I get a big boy bike I can try one out.
My PSM has done fine and I bought it used. I just don't have room enough for anything bigger. I imagine if the cables going into it were not secured well the vibration could crack the solder joints on the circuit boards.
One thing I wondered about the DSI2 though, how many EQ sliders does it have? That's one thing about the Arc, I wish it had more sliders instead of just adjusting the frequency points for the ones that are there. I imagine the end result could be the same, but I would like ten bands or so as opposed to the seven of the PSM. Also Juice do you know if the DD unit has adjustable voltage on the outputs, or is it just set to 5v? Maybe one day if I get a big boy bike I can try one out.
I know the DSI2 has a price without BT and one with and its $50 bucks difference.
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I think it's interesting that the DD DSI2 has both PC input and apparently bluetooth. Does the bluetooth work for tuning out of the box or do you need to buy and adapter? I see it has a bluetooth port on it in the pictures.
My PSM has done fine and I bought it used. I just don't have room enough for anything bigger. I imagine if the cables going into it were not secured well the vibration could crack the solder joints on the circuit boards.
One thing I wondered about the DSI2 though, how many EQ sliders does it have? That's one thing about the Arc, I wish it had more sliders instead of just adjusting the frequency points for the ones that are there. I imagine the end result could be the same, but I would like ten bands or so as opposed to the seven of the PSM. Also Juice do you know if the DD unit has adjustable voltage on the outputs, or is it just set to 5v? Maybe one day if I get a big boy bike I can try one out.
My PSM has done fine and I bought it used. I just don't have room enough for anything bigger. I imagine if the cables going into it were not secured well the vibration could crack the solder joints on the circuit boards.
One thing I wondered about the DSI2 though, how many EQ sliders does it have? That's one thing about the Arc, I wish it had more sliders instead of just adjusting the frequency points for the ones that are there. I imagine the end result could be the same, but I would like ten bands or so as opposed to the seven of the PSM. Also Juice do you know if the DD unit has adjustable voltage on the outputs, or is it just set to 5v? Maybe one day if I get a big boy bike I can try one out.
The DSI2 has a 10 band EQ. 10 band in a band pass actually give you a good bit of control.
The acr gives you 7 EQ sliders. Again in band pass you change all the frequencies to what you want. Just type what Fz you want to change.
Juice
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Thanks Juice. I'm an old PC guy by trade so I appreciate being able to bring what I am working on up on a couple of large monitors. I think the Arc was just simple enough to where I could hit the ground running with it. I got a decent basic tune that tamed the Motos in the fairing early on. After learning to adjust the Q values slightly I was able to clean them up even further. Also being able to boost the voltage to my rear amp kept it from hammering my charging system af high volumes.
All in all I'm pleased with the PSM. Never know when something cooler will come down the line though.
All in all I'm pleased with the PSM. Never know when something cooler will come down the line though.
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Thanks Juice. I'm an old PC guy by trade so I appreciate being able to bring what I am working on up on a couple of large monitors. I think the Arc was just simple enough to where I could hit the ground running with it. I got a decent basic tune that tamed the Motos in the fairing early on. After learning to adjust the Q values slightly I was able to clean them up even further. Also being able to boost the voltage to my rear amp kept it from hammering my charging system af high volumes.
All in all I'm pleased with the PSM. Never know when something cooler will come down the line though.
All in all I'm pleased with the PSM. Never know when something cooler will come down the line though.
Juice
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Both the Dayton and DD should fit in the cubby. I have two concerns with that, although I may just be gunshy at this point. 1. The power wires are on that side of the tray, as you can see from the photos above. Surely its not close enough to cause interfere with quality rca's. 2. Lucky 7 used that cubby to push some of the extra cabling in to get it out of the way. Again, surely not enough to cause any issues if I pull it out. The Dayton is considerably cheaper, and still has Bluetooth. Realistically, I'm just going to be using it to set bandpass filters on each set of speakers, so I may lose any benefit of the higher end DD dsp.
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Everyone has different needs when it comes to a dsp but for me I like the features of the twk88. Its big but worth it if you can fit it in.
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Dang! Almost 500 bucks too!