- Improves audio performance of virtually any car audio system, including frequency response, bass performance, clarity, detail and stereo imaging
- Logic 7 surround processor creates a 5.1- or 7.1-channel surround experience from two-channel source material
- DSP Time Correction calibrates arrival time in every listening location; Auto DSP equalization compensates for speakers and vehicle interior issues
- Auto tune automatically adjusts all aspects of the system using included binaural headset microphone
- Precise, user selectable crossover points and crossover slopes for up to eight separate outputs
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Well, what can I say?… this thing is truly heaven sent. I’m enamored with its ability to automatically tune the response of my car stereo system to deliver a great pleasing sound, with detail, focus, and attributes that I spent months working towards with a manual tuned DSP.
I wrote a review on this product on a car audio forum.
Here’s the link, broken up. You’ll have to reconstruct it as I cannot post a direct link. Delete the spaces and replace with periods.
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Rating: 5 / 5
HU: Pioneer 880prs and went active (forget about rear speakers!)
Tweeters: TB 2.5″ Ceramic Dome
Mids: TB 3″ Bamboo Cone
Lows: ID OEM 6.5″ Carbon Fiber Weave Cone
The system in my Element has slowly transformed from a ‘simple’ system to an MS-8-centric beast, THIS is it!
1.0: It started off with a simple 6.5″ ID OEM low and a 1″ aluminum dome Tang Band tweeter in the doors (fully sealed and matted doors are crucial!!).
2.0: Then we shifted to a 2.5″ ceramic dome Tang Band tweeter in the stock Element tweeter position, was better but definitely NOT the best.
3.0: Then we shifted to a three-way setup with the same lows and tweeters but threw in a set of mids; the tweeters and mids are now sitting in A-pillar mounted pods. Since my head-unit doesn’t support active for three-way setups, we had to ‘trick’ the HU into thinking the tweeters and mids were the same speaker. It sounded amazing but wasn’t quite there. Pioneer’s latest top-end HU DOES support three-way setups.
4.0: Added the MS-8 and fiddled with calibration about six or seven times; the system simply blows EVERYONE away… This is not an understatement. The imaging is amazing, I’m noticing details in my music that I’ve never noticed before (mostly with older songs that I’ve listened to over and over and over again in the past). Imperfections in MP3′s are much more apparent and annoying, I’m slowly replacing my collection with high-quality versions (320kbps if possible, may have to move onto loss-less down the road). I’m sure the MS-8 does wonders in a stock system but it also does wonders in a highly modified / custom system like mine.
I’m not sure how audio stores market the product but I hope they do it justice by having an installed system to demo the magical box to potential customers.
Rating: 5 / 5