Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6
the 700 is a pre-amp & ideally you should adjust the volume through it if it's not connected to an ai-net head, but you can do it with the head unit, just have to fine tune your gains & balance the system, but with multiple inputs you may be better off using the 700/01 as master volume control with all seperate sources pre adjusted (pc & head)
don't bother to keep going into the menus to switch inputs, what I do is modify the usb cable to my soundcard.... interupt the 5v power & the soundcard turns off, & "shuts the lights out" on the toslink.... when the alpine doesn't see light anymore on the digital in, it then reverts back to the rca inputs automatically...... when you turn the 5v back on..... sound card powers & then output lights.... the alpine will automatically switch back to the optical in.......
so basically a switch can be used to switch the inputs.... temp it out for testing, as I'm doing this with a direct ai-net head connection, but it should work the same for you... just unplug the soundcard & see if it switches automatically for you too.... this will solve a lot of your issues I think, as far as presets & inputs
no way to name presets... each preset can use the parametric OR the graphic, both can't be used at the same time at all, let alone in the same preset.
the alpine can upsource a 2 channel input to 5.1, you can do this with stereo input, no problem
5.1 in a car is much more difficult to acheive than it would first seem. from another post:
It doesn't SEEM like a pre-amp as my older Rockford EPX2 allowed you to adjust the input level so that you would get max volume just befor clipping the input. It allowed for max volume without increasing the noise floor. The 700/701 doesn't seem to have anything like that. With no input level control it seems to act like any other cheap processor that requires carefull matching of the gains. In other words it woun't allow my HU to get enough volume without turning up the gains on the amp. I just expected better of the Alpine is all. It won't be a real issue once I ditch the HU and use the digital PC input.
I'm using a PCI sound card, so I can't turn it off. Again, it shouldn't be a problem once I ditch the HU.
I really don't want to use the volume on the controller because I don't know how to interface the controller with my wireless steering wheel controls. I also don't have a location to mount the controller except in the center console. I should be able to control the PC's volume with a wireless remote tied into the steering wheel controls so I plan to go that route.
I only use the Graphic EQ, but it looks like you could set both types of EQ on a preset and then switch back and forth. Are you saying it won't do that? It doesn't really matter to me as I don't really care for parametric EQ anyway, but I thought I would ask.
Anyone want a controller that lights up green and amber buttons? I thought the amber would match my red-ish Pontiac dash lights, but it doesn't. If someone has a blue buttoned controller and want's to swap, let me know. If not, I may open it and add some blue LEDs.
I might try and build a dash pod like on the subarus to hold the controller and that unit could also hold a speaker. Viola! Instant center channel speaker enclosure. I'll probably use the phantom center though. Seeing as how the center channel has it's own EQ curve, it seems like a different sized speaker could be made to sound pretty close to the main left and rights. I don't know, I need to get the PC in there first.
