Hi all,

Thought I'd give a little back to the community and document my install, given I stalked these pages for lots of info along the way.

So the car is a 2020 S205 C63 S UK car, has factory Burmester which was actually pretty good but compared to my 911 with a fully active Dynaudio setup, lacking that polish.



and so the saga begins...

This is the factory response with all the EQ flat, measured centrally in the car with pink noise



If you're interested in what the factory EQ can achieve:





My personal fav settings were B-2 M-7 T-0

 

First purchase was the focal MBZ 100 component kit:




This is what it gave me:





Black = baseline system with no EQ
Green = Focal 'inside' MBZ components and centre
Blue = As above but tweaked the EQ to -6 -6 -6 which had the net result of pulling that 200-400 up

The end result was a big step backwards in my opinion, the 10dB (yes 10) hump 15khz made it sound shrill and crunchy, if you're a rock or metal fan like me cymbals would be like glass breaking, brittle crunchy things that have you reaching for the down knob. The focal timbre and the burmester EQ do not sit well - my 2c.

So..... go backwards to stock? Sideways to Dynaudio? Onwards to a proper amp with DSP......

 

So after looking around here, learnt a little and plan formed, with these landing on the doorstep:



I don't like having random connectors everywhere so also bought the connectors to remake the looms fresh

 

Given this seemed to also come in the box....



and this....



Really we were going to need more juice



Can see the rear distro box by the trim tool in the back

 

if we're goign to have a sub in the back it's going to need some treatment, so out with the oem...





under the seats too

 

Mounting the amp up with custom looms for plug and play





In it goes

 

onto the custom sub box, made up a base plate



Top half made



test fit before prep & paint

 

Moved into the Audio forum, thanks for that!

Sealed the box last night with a wood primer, will sand it down and look to get the black on later this week.

If the focal tweeters continue to sound hard, I have a plan B:

 

 

Keep updating. Love the subtle sub box.

 

Tune and refit interior to go