2014 F150 Limited -> Kenwood DDX-9907xr -> Helix DSP.2 -> Alpine PDX-V9 -> SI M25 mki in Valicar Stuttgart Pods, Rear SB17's, Sub SI BM MKV's in MTI BOX. Alpine PDX-F6 -> SI Tm65 mkIV, SI M3 mkI in Valicar Stuttgart Pods
I installed a device from these guys, so far for half a year the radio has been working fine, you can contact them
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Last edited by MikeVelis; 02-02-2023 at 06:18 AM.
Did a few updates to this car a couple of weeks ago. Went all JL Audio.
Front - C3 2 way components
Rear - C2 coaxial
Subs - 2 JL Tw3's in truckwedge boxes
Amps - VXI 800/8 and 1000/1
VXI Hub and optical loopback for global eq
All the product
Mocking up New amp locations.
Pulling all the stupid panels
Having to run a ground under the vehicle. All factory grounding locations and original had like 6 ohms of resistance. I knew this wasn't great for the other amp (alpine pdr) I had in there before, but I was too lazy at that point to run a ground so went easy route at that time...but now with this much power on tap, I couldn't do that.
Running new wire into the rear doors. Front already was done on previous install.
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2014 F150 Limited -> Kenwood DDX-9907xr -> Helix DSP.2 -> Alpine PDX-V9 -> SI M25 mki in Valicar Stuttgart Pods, Rear SB17's, Sub SI BM MKV's in MTI BOX. Alpine PDX-F6 -> SI Tm65 mkIV, SI M3 mkI in Valicar Stuttgart Pods
2014 F150 Limited -> Kenwood DDX-9907xr -> Helix DSP.2 -> Alpine PDX-V9 -> SI M25 mki in Valicar Stuttgart Pods, Rear SB17's, Sub SI BM MKV's in MTI BOX. Alpine PDX-F6 -> SI Tm65 mkIV, SI M3 mkI in Valicar Stuttgart Pods
Everything all wired up
Closer view of the wiring on the back
Got both subs in there now
Everythign all conceals perfectly. My wife opted for the 2 row model and not a 3rd row. That left this nice area to hide everything
Got it all Tuned with the JL Max. This 2 way is one of the best I have ever heard. It images like crazy and sounds fantastic. I am in shock at how well it sounds.
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2014 F150 Limited -> Kenwood DDX-9907xr -> Helix DSP.2 -> Alpine PDX-V9 -> SI M25 mki in Valicar Stuttgart Pods, Rear SB17's, Sub SI BM MKV's in MTI BOX. Alpine PDX-F6 -> SI Tm65 mkIV, SI M3 mkI in Valicar Stuttgart Pods
Nice and clean!
looks great. I love a great stealth build.
Here is some other info for anyone that searches for kia radios.
This is from a 2013 kia sorento radio with uvo without factory amp.
Note, there is technically pins for spdif coax, but when checking, those were not active on my radio.
I am no longer using this radio (we use it for our trainings now)
Finally put the Kia radio on the test bench at work with the JL MAX. Also remembered to bring in my FM transmitter, (using radio static and open loop actually worked well for this as I got similar results for time stuff, rta was different though.
Aux/USB/Bluetooth in has 1.00ms of delay between left and right channel FM/Phone calls/etc in has 0.41ms of delay between left and right channels.
So if a person wanted to use this Kia Factory radio, and have a good system, they wouldn't be able to time align to all sources without different presets.
This is the impulse between aux/usb/bluetooth audio in (yellow and orange with 1ms of delay) and FM/AM/Phone calls (green and blue with 0.41ms of delay) This is why you need two presets for this radio. Also, neither are actually correct delays for proper time alignment to main listening position. I do not know how they came up with these numbers either...
Factory eq on it. It did have volume dependent eq. The top orange is vol e, and the one right below is vol30. If no vol eq, those would be the same. It isn't much but there is some treble and bass roll off compared to lower volumes.
Another way to see the factory delay. I summed the left and right signal going into the JL max hi level ins. When doing this, you can clearly see the delay appear as comb filtering. You can model this too with the target mode in tun.
The JL Max also allows you to delay the hi level in signal. So I did that to remove the delay. You could do this with a sound card like RME/Focusrite/etc, but be VERY CAREFUL on how much voltage you put into one of those!
These are the bass, mid, treble adjustments compared to default. Bass adjusts below about 100hz. Treble above about 4k, and mid is 300-1k.
This is the powerbass option within the radio. It increases the bass but lowers the midbass (~150hz) some. I would personally set this to high if I was using this radio.
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2014 F150 Limited -> Kenwood DDX-9907xr -> Helix DSP.2 -> Alpine PDX-V9 -> SI M25 mki in Valicar Stuttgart Pods, Rear SB17's, Sub SI BM MKV's in MTI BOX. Alpine PDX-F6 -> SI Tm65 mkIV, SI M3 mkI in Valicar Stuttgart Pods
Thanks for posting that. Even though it might not be relevant right now, it could be invaluable for someone in the future.
Thank you Jdunk54nl!
I registered just to thank you.
I swapped my wife's Sorento radio with documentation!