I just seen so many DYI guys cutting wires in their systems showing How To KZfaq videos. The vehicles they were doing videos of, had an integration piece available that would seamlessly integrate into their systems and give them the best signal possible, retaining all their features. So no need in cutting wires 🤦‍♂️

Dave, Yes! I have seen these videos sometime here in Europe. Your video will give a better understanding and how wonderful music can sound with an additional device to your factory integrated system and without cutting all the wires.😄

Yes, I agree 100% and hopefully they will fix the issues with the director and conductor as I was just talking about these issues with a guy on Instagram that pretended they didn’t exist. Will see what the next Helix or Brax DSP’s will be like. Maybe an i2s input and some higher end DAC’s and component’s like you were saying.

Unfortunately where I’m at in Canada Zapco is nowhere to be found. I believe they’re more prominent in the United States and I know Peter from PSSound uses a lot of the Hi end Zapco gear…AP Amplifiers and the HD DSP 16 channel. I believe their software issues were with their hi end gear.

You can replace the head unit in that vehicle

Yes, every DAP I have had sounds a lot better than Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. That being said do you have coaxial digital input on your DSP? I believe you only have optical toslink.

It’s unfortunate as your Audiocontrol D-5.1300 doesn’t have any digital inputs which are pretty much on every DSP/Amp these days.

Yes, that vehicle you would more than likely just go into a DSP. Best to find the Helix distributor their and ask them if they ever did your vehicle. Having an interface for your vehicle is great but I barely ever listen to Apple CarPlay or Android Audio as I always bypass everything and go straight to my Helix DSP Ultra. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are overrated, they are the features people want that are not into hi end car audio 😆 If you don’t want to go with a DAP you can use an SMSL PO100 Pro which is cheap $85 Canadian and your phone or a tablet and it’s excellent! You can use that and go Optical, or coaxial or even i2s right into your DSP. Then you can connect your phone at the same time to Bluetooth and then that will control your track skip etc from your steering wheel controls.

@@CarAudioHorizons Wow the SMSL option is really cheap alternative..never thought of that..will try it before i go for a dap purchase,,,,thanks for your answer...Keep up the good work my friend!!

@@Myth1as Yes, I did a review on it a little over a month ago, it’s a great affordable product

What vehicle do you currently have?

2020 Acura tlx v6 base none els 7 speakers

@@digginglow Yes, I didn’t see anything for that vehicle. I use to have an Acura RSX Type S years ago. Always like Acura it was probably the most reliable vehicle I had, never had one issue with it. But for audio these days they make it difficult to integrate with.

@@digginglow The best way to do a stereo in those types of vehicles is just go with a Helix DSP and a Fiio DAP so you can bypass everything in the system and go Coaxial Digital out of the DAP into the Helix DSP if it’s a Helix DSP.3s, or Pro MK3, or Ultra, or the DSP/AMP Ultimate P6. Anyone that has coaxial digital in.

I just hooked my android phone to DAC dongle or to Bluetooth Receiver and wired directly to DSP Amplifier's RCA... Obviously better sound than Head units receiver...

I believe in that vehicle You can replace the head unit.

@@CarAudioHorizons Yes, I could, but I want to replace the amp.

@@d.r8425 Wouldn’t you just run the amps/dsp off of the new head unit?

@@CarAudioHorizons I am keeping the original head unit. I am just adding a dsp and amps for front stage and trunk subs. New speakers also, Morels up front and Rockford sub box.

@@d.r8425 Ok, well if you end up getting any of the new Helix DSP’s you can always run a DAP strait to it via coaxial digital for the best connection

It Depends on what DSP and DSP/AMP you’re talking about as they all have different specs. For Helix the DSP Ultra is their best DSP. Usually the DSP in the amp/DSP’s are a trickled down version on the stand alone DSP’s. The software is usually the same but the parts are different.

@@CarAudioHorizons Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently running a 4 channel amp excelsus and want a Independent DSP the inbuilt DSP amps mostly have less than 100 RMS per channel. What additional cabling would I need to have an independent DSP?

@@gobusamangi With an independent DSP you just need the RCA’s to go to the amps depending on how many channels you’re going to run. Then a controller possibly if you’re going to run a DAP as a source or want to control the settings etc..

@@CarAudioHorizons It's not toshlink. It's toslink.

No really? WOW thanks for the information I didn’t know it’s called Toslink. 😆 You must be the Troll from Five Star

Yes, but it wasn’t tuned properly in the vehicle I heard so it never sounded very good. But they’re not in the same class as the Helix DSP’s depending on which one $$ wise the Helix are a lot more expensive and have a lot more features than the Audiocontrol DSP’s. Spec wise the Helix are quite a bit higher as well. I have heard the amplifiers in a few vehicles in passive system and they sounded good.

@Andre Kirk We might have to wait for a bit as Audiocontrol has a new update coming soon. Apparently it’s a big update