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I plan to get a vary bare setup running in my car tomorrow with no dash or anything just to get an idea how I will finally run everything. The question I have is, will it be fine to use the existing 4gauge wire running to my amp and split it into a relay that will go to my inverter? Another question is, the relay I have is going to be very hard to fit a 4gauge wire on the end, are they all like this? Now to my final question I think I am going to just tap into my radio harness for the ACC wire to trip the relay, since this is such a small wire can I run a very small wire for that through my car to the trunk (I have a good amount of 22gauge)? Any input is appreciated thanks!

First, my car will be running 4 speakers through a 4 channel amp, as well as 2 subs through a 2 channel bass amp. So I need 5.1 Sound Card options. Running RoadRunner.

I am having a lot of trouble figuring out what sound card to put in my car, as it seems there is no preferred card. I have searched for many USB options, and have heard many mixed reviews on them, so I am wondering, would it be better to get a PCI Card (with a PCI riser cable, as my case doesn’t have room), or get a USB sound card? Is there a real sound improvement with either one?

*Also… in your opinions for USB:

Sound Blaster Live! (Is this one 5.1?)

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX (discontinued)

Sound Blaster X-Fi

Turtle Beach Roadie

Zalman ZM-RSSC
*

Which is the best? Or do you have a different one to recommend?

If PCI is the way to go, I would greatly appreciate some recommendations for those too.

Please if anyone can give some recommendations, it would be a great help to me.

My last hold-up before I can move forward, ugh. :ballchain:

Thank you to all those who reply!

I run Streetdeck Lite v1.1.0.0 I think.. on my Infill T3

What is the “Buffering off” option on the radio page? Can i enable it?

When I turn off my car SD is set to suspend then hibernate or something.
When I start up again and play MP3’s I have lost sound on my right speakers, i.e. it’s like I have set the balance to be left speakers only.
I have to exit and restart SD and then everything is back to normal.
Whats going on here?..

Hello All,

This is my first post so please be gentle on me.

I recently bought the Kenwood DNX5120 however I’m having issues with the USB capabilities. Unfortunately the USB device is not recognized upon starting the car. I must manually unplug the device and reconnect it.

This is a major pain as I have the device stored and hidden underneath my center console. I’ve provided links to the specification page of each device to assist.

http://www.kenwood.com/audiofile/dnx5120/english.html

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=393

Why is the drive not recognized when starting the car?

Thank you.

Hello!

I’m new to the site but excited for a resolution. I have a recently purchased Kenwood DNX5120 Nav/DVD head unit that I am attempting to establish a connection with my external hard drive.

Unfortunately the USB harddrive is not recognized upon starting my car. I must unplug the harddrive and then reconnect it for a solid connection. At that point the Head unit recognizes the device.

If it helps any I have provided the specifications for both devices:

http://www.kenwood.com/audiofile/dnx5120/english.html

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=393

Why must I reconnect the drive every time I start the car?

Thank you.

I dont have many pics of my install, I wanted the interior to be as stealth as possible. Sounds amazing and everyone is impressed when they see SD in action.

*The Ride:*
2004 Infiniti G35 Coupe

*The Audio/Video:*
-Eclipse Head unit
-8″ Touchscreen
-15″ LCD
-Carpc w/Streetdeck
-JL Audio ZR-650-CSi mids/highs
-JL Audio 300/2
-JL Audio 2×10W6v2 in 4080’s.
-JL Audio 1000/1

*The Interior.*
8″ Touchscreen & headunit
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/001.jpg

Eclipse Head unit, Cant even tell you how long it took to get that mounted in there lol
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/002.jpg

Mids/Highs, Upper Glove box holds CarPC shutoff switch, 120gb External HD, 7 Port USB Hub.
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/003.jpg

Fiberglass False floor where my CarPC is located
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/004.jpg

*The Trunk*
15″ LCD, Subs, Amps, Caps, 2nd Battery. All leather & suede
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/005.jpg

*Exterior*
20″ Asanti MS-147’s Color matched Rims.
Clear Corners
Keyhole Covers (installed after pic was taken)
Tint
Image: http://www.creativeslackers.com/images/G35/post/rims01.jpg

One of the features I love in Fusion Control Centre is the graphing instance (in the default skin graphing acceleration).

I’m about to configure my Roadrunner install, and want to use RRFusion to keep it all in RR (or until being able to pull different pages from Fusion depending on RR keypress is possible). Is there a way to produce the graphs in RR? I searched for “graph” and “graphing” and also looked through heaps of skins to no avail.

Cheers,
Hamish

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I have a fairly high spec (core2duo) Sony Vaio laptop, but the screen is broken (only half display). Would this be useful to use as my car pc and connect to a touchscreen? I amd COMPLETELY NEW to this and have no hardware other than the laptop so please bear with me.

If I could use this, then where do I go from there? It is a 3 series coupe by the way.
Best touchscreen to get?
Adaptors for laptop power supply?
Wiring?
Speaker connectors?

As I said, first visit to website so I am a bit dumb!