XETEC GRAVITY SERIES PARAQ-7
Congratulations for buying this
XETEC
product and thank you for your
confidence!
With this
XETEC
equalizer you have purchased an innovative and professional
high-end product, which will enable you to enjoy your music on a very high
quality level for many years.
We have especially focused on electronic as well as product design to
give you a product that will accompany you for many years, as our products
are always one step ahead and will still be modern for many years.
Xetec
products represent the experience our engineers have made through
many years assisted by car audio magazines as well as professional installers.
Please read these instructions very carefully, to avoid unnecessary trouble
and defects.
In case of trouble, please contact your local dealer or check our website
www.xetec.de
for troubleshooting. There we also offer up-to-date hints
and technical support for you.
Our website
www.xetec.de
(accessories/ParaQ-7/car data collection)
offers many optimized adjustments for your car model. Using these
adjustments, you do not need any additional measurements.
The
XETEC ParaQ-7
is a state-of-the-art 6-channel / 7-band car audio
equalizer, engineered for the correction of resonances and peaks caused by
the car´s geometry itself.
The ParaQ-7 is not meant to be used as a sound control like bass and treble
controls. That makes no sense and will only strain the amplifier and speakers.
Additionally, the ParaQ-7 is equipped with a subsonic filter and a phase
shifter to reduce very low frequencies and to correct the phase of the
subwoofer in relation to the other speakers.
Resonances and peaks caused by the car´s own geometry cause distortions
of the frequency response of the whole soundsystem which lead to a dirty
and boomy or aggressive, colorated sound, or both.
So, even the best speaker is not able to reproduce music as it was,
since the car´s own „sound" is always added to the music. By filtering
this garbage out, the sound becomes more clear, precise and more hi-fi.
A really good hi-fi sound quality is impossible without equalizing.
Amazing results can be achieved this way, even with factory installed
speakers.
TIPS FOR MEASUREMENTS
If you want to go one step further, optimizing the whole system
including Radio, amplifier, speakers and car acoustics, you have to
take measure-ments with professionalequipment, like computer RTA
(Real Time Analyzers). We recommend Analyzers being capable of
conducting an average curve out of many single plots in order
to take measurements in several positions. The microphone should
be moved slowly from the left ear towards the nose and then
to the right ear while about 30 single measurements are taken.
This way, you will get a real average curve ensuring not to hit a
point which is not representative at all.
SAFETY
•
Before you make any connection, the battery must be
disconnected!
•
A main fuse must be installed into the +12 V wire within
+ the first 12" from the + terminal of the battery
(insurance regulation!).
•
The fuse in the power line only protects the device itself, not
the battery and the car!
0. INSTALLATION
For safety reasons, the equalizer has to be mounted properly
and fixed to the car´s body. Please fix the device using the screws
that come with your product. Be careful when drilling holes,
there might be wires, fuel lines or the gas tank behind a wall!
Never drill holes when you do not know what´s behind. Never
install signal wires close to power cables to avoid hum and
alternator noise is being induced.
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