Can someone explain to me how this works, and how to use it? They don't really go into much detail on what the various settings mean.

Time Correction and Crossover Control I understand, but the Parametric EQ has me stumped. Those that have it, what are your settings?

Thanks.

 

I understand what the setting are supposed to do (basically it gives you four channels to choose from, allowing you to determine the "width" of each channel and then vary the sound, up or down for each). However, I must admit I do not understand the who i-personalize concept when it comes to sound adjustments.

The whole point of making sound adjustments is to adjust the sound...one would think the easiest way to do that would be to hear the sound as you adjust, making constant tweaks until you get it right. I don't understand the benefit of sitting at your computer, guessing what the right adjustments are, burning a CD, and only then loading it into your HU to hear the results.

I played with this a bit but scrapped it when it came time to burn the CD. I had no clue what the right settings were in my truck, so rather, I sat outside for about 30 mins on a few different ocassions un til I got the sound I was happy with.

 

I understand what the setting are supposed to do (basically it gives you four channels to choose from, allowing you to determine the "width" of each channel and then vary the sound, up or down for each). However, I must admit I do not understand the who i-personalize concept when it comes to sound adjustments.

The whole point of making sound adjustments is to adjust the sound...one would think the easiest way to do that would be to hear the sound as you adjust, making constant tweaks until you get it right. I don't understand the benefit of sitting at your computer, guessing what the right adjustments are, burning a CD, and only then loading it into your HU to hear the results.

I played with this a bit but scrapped it when it came time to burn the CD. I had no clue what the right settings were in my truck, so rather, I sat outside for about 30 mins on a few different ocassions un til I got the sound I was happy with.

 

I don't have an alpine, but I can gander a guess...

Time correction (to me) means delaying the audio by so many milliseconds from either the left right front or rear speakers. This helps to "center" the image to you. As you can tell the drivers speakers are closer than the passengers. Thus in you hear those sounds slightly earlier than the rest...


Parametric EQ lets you tweek the "Q" By bandwith and amplitude, you can adjust the equalizer. Amplitude is "the volume" The width you are asking about is the amount of frequencies around the centered one you are adjusting. if you are "wide" then you are modifying several frequencies, if narrow, you are focusing on a much narrower group of frequencies.

Do what sounds best to you...

 

And I can definitely vouch that both of these features work very well on the Alpine unit I have. But as you say, do what sounds best to you...hard to do that when sitting at your computer burning this settings onto a CD rather than trying out the setting and adjusting them in the actual listening environment of your truck.

Best of luck to you! I have my Alpine with Sirius radio and the iPod interface sounding great!