Dmax Sound System

[Oswald Lemus]

Designedto offer the easiest installation process without compromising performance, our Stage 2 Sound Pack - DIY Kit is the ultimate solution for Dmax owners seeking an audio upgrade. Each component in this meticulously curated kit is carefully matched to ensure optimal performance, delivering unparalleled value for money.

With our do-it-yourself approach, you can save time and money while achieving the best possible audio result for your Dmax. Say goodbye to complicated installations and hello to plug-and-play convenience - all audio connections are pre-made for your convenience.

Immersive Listening Experience: Enjoy an immersive listening experience with speakers that provide balanced sound distribution and dynamic range, making your favourite music come to life.

Versatile Connectivity: With multiple input options and customizable settings, our amplifier allows you to fine-tune your audio system to suit your preferences, giving you full control over your sound.

Space-Saving Design: Designed to fit seamlessly in your vehicle's interior, our subwoofer maximizes space without compromising performance, ensuring a sleek and integrated audio solution.

Optimized Performance: Designed to minimize signal loss and interference, our wiring kit ensures optimal performance and reliability, allowing you to enjoy crystal-clear sound without distractions.

Durable Construction: Constructed from high-quality materials, our wiring kit is built to withstand the demands of automotive use, providing long-lasting durability and peace of mind.

With our Stage 2 Sound Pack - DIY Kit, each component is carefully chosen and optimized to deliver the best possible audio experience, ensuring you can enjoy your favourite music with clarity, depth, and precision wherever you go.

DMAX Audio develops digital signal processing algorithms and adaptive filtering systems for sound reinforcement.Our top design is a method for calculating FIR correction filters for single and multiway loudspeakers called frequency-phase compensation technology.These FIR filters allow to virtually eliminate the temporal distortions that come from the inertia of a moving coil and gain maximally flat frequency and phase response.We produce high-quality active near-field studio monitors built using our proprietary frequency-phase compensation technology.

Equipped with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a wide range of smartphone features and entertainment is available on the dashboard. Get directions, make calls, send and receive messages and listen to high-resolution streaming music, commanding it all via the display or voice control.

Enjoy superb audio fidelity with Hi-Res Audio and LDAC wireless technology. Play high-resolution audio tracks via USB, or music streaming services via smartphone, ensuring the music is reproduced with clarity and authenticity as the artist intended.

No wires, no fuss, just get in and drive with your iPhone wirelessly connected to use Apple CarPlay. Listen to your favourite music apps, make and receive calls or messages, use maps or navigation apps, all at your command via the display or voice control. If you need to charge-up then plug-in your iPhone via USB.

Furthermore, with the built-in GPS/GLONASS circuit and antenna, as well as vehicle speed pulse sense connectivity ensures your actual vehicle position has pin-point accuracy on the road. This keeps you on route when driving through complex and dense city road systems, tunnels, bridges and elevated mountain highways and terrains.

With Apple Music onboard for Apple CarPlay you have access to 60+ million ad-free songs at your fingertips which you can search genres, artists, podcasts and expertly crafted playlists. With the use of Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, Amazon Music and YouTube Music provides limitless entertainment to stream or download songs from a list of over 40 million ad-free tracks. Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Apple Music are paid subscriptions.

The RUE-BK01A external control knob (sold separately) connects wirelessly to the iLX-F511A and can be installed on either side of the display for added convenience. Alternatively, you can place the control knob anywhere else within the vehicle and for custom installation professionals the mounting possibilities are virtually endless. Rotation of the knob controls the unit volume output, while a push of the knob will cycle through your vehicles safety cameras on screen.

Alpine sound quality performance is of the highest standards and with advanced sound tuning you are empowered with the tools to tune your system to perfection, as well as to the specific environment of your vehicle.

Featuring a 56-band Parametric EQ in the advanced mode, a 2-way digital crossover, 6-channel digital time correction, plus several Bass Engine SQ and MediaXpander settings provides sound tuning for simple to comprehensive high-end systems with multiple power amplifiers, speakers and subwoofers.

The two rear USB ports allow for even greater flexibility. USB port 1 provides fast charging of your smartphone while using wireless connectivity, or you can connect your smartphone for wired connection of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Either USB Port 1 or 2 are your entertainment gateway, allowing audio and video playback via connection of a memory stick, portable drive or SSD.

Audiophile and music fans can now enjoy a true high-fidelity audio experience with the astonishing detail and musical beauty of Hi-Res Audio. The iLX-F511A supports up to 192kHz/24Bit FLAC/WAV and APE high-resolution audio files with their intended playback specification of 96kHz/24Bit. This means, no longer do you have to compromise your listening experience lost in highly-compressed traditional audio formats, in Hi-Res your music now comes alive with stunning clarity and every nuance revealed, just as the artist intended. When playing Hi-Res Audio files the iLX-F511A will display the Hi-Res icon and file bit rate.

Even more impressive, equipped with Hi-Res Audio Wireless and LDAC technology, you can connect your smartphone via USB or wirelessly and use Hi-Res Audio streaming services or apps bringing a virtually limitless music library with the purest sound right inside your car.

Please be advised for any orders received from Friday 21 December 2018 to Tuesday 1 January 2019 will not be shipping until Wednesday 2 January 2019 when we return back to work after the Christmas break.

The development of affordable software-based audio processing tools has bought the previously mysterious art and science of mastering to the masses. Whether it's really ideal to master your own finished tracks in the same (perhaps less than optimal) monitoring environment in which they were recorded and mixed is debatable but, for whatever reason, if you're undertaking your own mastering it makes sense to use tools designed specifically for the task. Some third-party plug-ins have become widely established, including Izotope's Ozone, IK Multimedia's T-Racks and processors from Voxengo and Waves; many others are available, and most of the major DAWs now include similar tools as standard.

DMAX Audio are a new company entering this field, with an initial catalogue comprising four plug-ins. The DMAX peak limiter is based upon an algorithm Andrew Startsev, DMAX Audio's main man, wrote for use in his own studio and has now developed commercially. The three other plug-ins are DEQ Type A, a 10-band graphic stereo EQ; DLIM, a brickwall loudness maximiser; and DSE, a stereo enhancer. Currently, they are VST only, with both 32- and 64-bit versions on the PC and 32-bit only for the Mac; Audio Units and RTAS versions are planned but, as yet, no timescale is suggested.

DMAX is a lookahead brickwall peak limiter. Its custom algorithm, according to the documentation, is designed to preserve both stereo imaging and transients. The PDF manual also suggests that DMAX is best suited to drum and/or percussion tracks, or mixes with these elements, rather than to other individual instrument or vocal tracks.

As illustrated by the screenshot, the interface styling has a certain retro feel, and this is carried over into all the other plug-ins in the suite. There are three key controls offered: Threshold, Ceiling, and a series of buttons that let you choose a threshold frequency above which the limiting does not process the signal. The idea is that you can apply control only to the lower-mids and bottom end of your mix if you so wish. As might be expected, the Ceiling fader sets the maximum amplitude of the output signal and is adjustable in 0.1dB steps down to -3dB. The Threshold control is where most of the action is: as usual, lower settings generate higher overall output levels. Again, this is adjustable in 0.1dB steps, but this time down to -12dB.

DLIM provides an alternative approach to increasing the loudness of your track. The Threshold and Ceiling controls operate as with DMAX, but you also get a Release control: low values produce the fastest response (suitable for drum-dominated material), while higher values are more suited to sources with less obvious transients. The plug-in also offers three modes called T1, T2 and T3 which, presumably, apply somewhat different algorithms. The documentation explains how these different modes alter the frequency range in which any distortion is applied but, with my test material at least, the differences between the modes seemed very subtle, and Wavelab's File Comparator tool confirmed this impression.

Comparing files processed with similar Threshold settings in DMAX and DLIM, I generally preferred the sound of DMAX. Indeed, when DLIM was pushed a little harder, I found I could begin to hear its workings just a little too obviously for my taste. That said, in the 0 to -6dB Threshold range the results sounded good.

The DEQ Type A plug-in provides a mastering-quality, 10-band graphic stereo EQ. The algorithm is intended to retain transients on drums and percussion and to work well with complex audio signals. The retro styling of the interface is dominated by the 10 frequency-band faders and the main output fader; this offers 12dB gain, while the frequency faders can be switched between offering 3dB or 12dB at full throw. The 3dB setting is useful for more detailed work, but do be aware that if you switch from the 12dB mode to the 3dB mode, any changes you had already made over the 3dB range are reset to the 3dB maximum.

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