While Ike may have units on transit coming in, people have been paying and orders building up. I can assure you this - ALL stock DEI had of this unit is no longer in their hands as of yesterday. Its all gone. The last 34 units after our orders were gone before we could order more. If we can access units through another venue, we'll keep you guys updated.
So be careful to order through Ike unless its guaranteed you get a unit or they can provide you with your $ back (not store credit)-that is all. Be careful shopping.
DEI's tech dept. noted there are no software updates to the controller at this time. And since they're dumping them, I highly doubt there will be any future new software.
DEI's tech dept. noted there are no software updates to the controller at this time. And since they're dumping them, I highly doubt there will be any future new software.
That is not good news.
As far as the stock goes, CarDomain has plenty, but won't come off the price enough to make it worthwhile. Best they can do is $388, dead cost.
My question is, why didn't DEI make a better cause for this processor? I mean, it looks great on paper, has to be cheap to make in Korea and has great flexability. While they are probably taking a tasty loss in their inital investment, that money is a sunk expense. I think they should keep making them, but make the price more realistic. Like $299 RRP. As it is, they are running PPI into the ground with the shatty amp lineup with awful looks and even worse specs...
As far as the stock goes, CarDomain has plenty, but won't come off the price enough to make it worthwhile. Best they can do is $388, dead cost.
My question is, why didn't DEI make a better cause for this processor? I mean, it looks great on paper, has to be cheap to make in Korea and has great flexability. While they are probably taking a tasty loss in their inital investment, that money is a sunk expense. I think they should keep making them, but make the price more realistic. Like $299 RRP. As it is, they are running PPI into the ground with the shatty amp lineup with awful looks and even worse specs...
I'm done ranting now.
Its most likely becauase it Is a DEI owned PPI. When theres others available-RF,Alpine,etc with comparable features general public is more inclined to purchase the more recognized/household named product.
As far as the stock goes, CarDomain has plenty, but won't come off the price enough to make it worthwhile. Best they can do is $388, dead cost.
My question is, why didn't DEI make a better cause for this processor? I mean, it looks great on paper, has to be cheap to make in Korea and has great flexability. While they are probably taking a tasty loss in their inital investment, that money is a sunk expense. I think they should keep making them, but make the price more realistic. Like $299 RRP. As it is, they are running PPI into the ground with the shatty amp lineup with awful looks and even worse specs...
I'm done ranting now.
PPI came into the market with this unit after DEi takeover. At that time it was out of the 'high end' game in consumers eyes and very little support from the dealer base(the reason PPI was ever a name to begin with). With house hold brand like Rockford/Alpine with competetive units now, theres just so much market share for this type of product to exist and be profitable to the company. I personally inquired on this unit last year whren i first saw it on the website, and there wasnt a distributor in the area that had any in stock and no feedback from DEI dealers. It simply went unnoticed. You can blame that on DEI for not markting it.
Or does its hault in production, and the delay of the DSP6-SL production this year have anything relative?
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Its probably a little deeper than that, plus has a bolt sticking out the back and the wire connector comes straight out the back. Its definately meant for mounting into an opening and not onto a flat surface.
Second wave is due to arrive monday-ish. So far all the boxes that arrived to us yesterday are brand spanking new and fresh, no surprises. All units look clean, all accessories/manuals in tact as one would expect. I will say the actual processor itself is a seeeexy piece with the smoked plexy look at the very clean guts. As far as these things are concerned you all will be very pleased.
Already drooling over throwing a few LEDS inside the casing of my piece.
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GUYS!
I just wired up the DCX! Chu(skylar112), Don(Pearl96max/6spdcoupe) , Derek (drocpsu ) and another local maxima owner who happened to having his installed in a 4th Gen maxima-were witness.
NO noise floor! At first, unit powers up having all settings maxed out by default and there is some. The hiss begins to disappear once you set the volume on the unit to -10 to the point where to me it was no longer audible at -15. At this setting I have intense volume capability- as loud as it was before putting the unit in- all gains remained the same on amplifiers(bare minimum). As opposed to losing ALOt of output when i had the H701 and PCM levels lowered , yet still have hiss. This is insane buy. Ikesound has already altered their prices, you guys should hustle and get your hands on one ASAP.
I cannot begin to tell you how my smile streches from ear to ear as I type. My last year had been a nightmare trying digital units-whether it be alt whine or hiss.
I have not began to tune. I'll be permanently installing the unit today. You guys will be VERY content.
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2008 Space Grey Metallic BMW 528i "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
I ordered mine on the 17th from ike and have not gotten any replies should i be worried?
Well, I ordered my two from Ike on the 13th and they just beat my debit card down yesterday evening. The frisky lady at Ike said that they don't take any money from you until units are in hand.
They never sent me anything stating that my units were there, I just kept checking my account status on Ike. The $340 left my checking at midnight, so hopefully...
ws6, just keep checking that account status online...
Did some tuning today fellas and mounted my remote unit in the glovey on a vinyl wrapped bezel.
Everything works as expected. Having the 1hz increments on the xover is super nice-makes tuning a little more involved and cumbersome but at the same time very precise and flexible. The linkweitz-riley and butterworth fliter options are sweet, and its nice to hear the difference. I did not work on the Time alignment as per PPI's instructions in concluding the correction factor by temperature (they offer a nice table in the manual), but by ear as I delayed the closest drivers the stage shifted effectively and didnt introduce much of a processed sound about it. PEQ...havent touched that yet, i need a whole day to dedicate to EQ each driver.
Headroom. Lets just say this unit impresses me with the range it offers in terms of its line driver capability. Between the volume output control per ch/ input sensitivity, etc... the tuning range of these parameters is very broad.
Definitly a tweekers piece. So far, sounds really good.
Only gripe, is manual is not very detailed and friendly. The unit automatically stores all your presets to preset (6), which is internal. Pressing one of the 5 presets on the unit made me lose these settings and I can see it being scary if you do so at high volume and all the sudden your drivers are playing at the default settings. I attempted to save the settings I had onto one of the button presets buT i guess thats not how you do it..lol. Gotta figure that one out. Crash?
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Re: PPI DCX-730 Digital Signal Processor
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