Hi, everyone. LOUD SOUND here.
And today we're having a usual unusual review.
Unusual 'cuz I'm sitting on a motorcycle.
No, hydrocycle. No, quadricycle.
What's the correct name with the 'cycle' in it. I mean, if not snowmobile?
Snowcycle?
We'll have this project on in a while. It's just come in for an install.
It's the first snowmobile you're doing, right?
We'll sure listen to it, take a tide. But it's not gonna be soon. 6 months sounds right?
Or a week? How long will it take?
Well, today's review is about this Toyota Hilux. Which is no surprise since it says it in the video title.
The car's come down from Novorossiysk.
This is the third car the owner has brought to us. The first two were a Hyundai Solaris and a Lada Niva.
The very Niva we compared to a Mercedes GL.
The video was pretty much an dumbass detector on YouTube.
There was a bunch of people who didn't get the joke and thought we were comparing them for real.
I mean, who would even think of it for reals?
While everyone knows Niva rocks.
As for the Solaris, there has been an incident.
Some guys from an aterlier in Novorossiysk made a post on Vk that Tigran had done lousy job.
Which he really did, tbh.
But it wasn't the saddest part.
I mean, we get such a huge number of explicitely shitty installs,
sometimes you jest feel a real urge to post this saying, Look, guys. This is holy fck.
This has been done by someone with no brain, no arms and no thing to do rith car audio.
But we keep it shush.
But should Tigran make one single misdo --
The wires were not laid tight there, right?
[T]: Nay, the wires were laid, but...
But the seatback wouldn't open?
[T]: A wire got unfastened 'cuz wasn't laid tight enough.
Despite all that, Dima seems to be content. He did send other cars to us, didn't he?
To those guys from Novorossiysk, we say hi.
It's just we've looked that atelier up, and those turned out to be, well... handy boys.
Now, let's get to the system. It turned out really loud which surprised me, tbh.
There is a bunch of star-components here which explains it. For one, T-34 tweeters.
Those are, let's say, clones or analogs of B&C's DE-35, the loudest on the market today.
'Cept these are 3 times cheaper.
There are Thai mid-range speakers SN6-200.
And there are brand-new Pride Solo 8 which we haven't had the chance to review yet.
But according to some people, those are the loudest 8" mid-bass - or low-playing mid-range - speakers.
And I am, in fact, willing to agree with them.
I briefly cross-checked them with the very Diamond 8 which we've reviewed recently,
which turned out to be louder and clearer in some frequency bands than Hertz SPL Show 200.1.
So, these Solos turned out even louder.
Which basically means they are the loudest 20 cm (8") speakers on the market.
We didn't cut back on amps, either, and picked some kickass AudioSystems.
So, let's move in closer.
And we're starting - where? Under the hood?
I have never opened a hood like this before. What's your bet, Tigran? Can I open it or not?
Dunno. I guess I opened something else.
[T]: You've opened the trunk lid.
I just pulled everything I found there. Whoa, it's so friggin' heavy!
Argh! You can pump up your biceps with it.
Hey, there's no stick or something?
I bet owners dream of gas springs.
The car's of 2017; 14,000 km (8700 mi) of milage. A brand-new car. And yet no gas springs.
Yeah, sure. It's like...
It's like iPhone. Someone says, 'You don't have this'. And you're like, 'I don't need that!'
If you have this conversation often enough, it'll turn out you don't need about 200 modern things.
Under the hood, we see Kicks fuses. This is getting ridiculous, Tigran.
[T]: 'Cuz noone has done anything better.
Than Kicx fuses? It's just Kicx is nototrious for burning off.
And a fuse's main function is to burn.
That's why Tigran chooses them.
[T]: So that they don't burn.
Hey, we're about to get sued by Kicx. They'll claim nothing burns with them.
Nothing of Kicx burns!
The wiring is not ПВ-3 as you might've though but SWAT 4 Ga which is actually a mishap here,
but Tigran doesn't know that yet. So I'm telling him.
I think, in this car, a sub set is in prospect.
You think this 4 Ga would suffice for the sub set, too?
[T]: No, we're gonna lay another cable.
Really? Well, you should've just laid a 0 Ga cable in the first place. Would be no need to add.
The cable runs through the body via these beloved by everyone - what are they called?
[T]: Fittings?
No, that's not it.
It should also be noted that the car has 2 stock batteries. There's the 2nd one.
I don't know the schematics. Are they in a single chain? Or is it done with fuses or relays?
Like, one chain for all of it? Really?
Hey, it is pretty tall, huh?
By the way, there's... Biatch!
[T]: A bit to the left.
We'll take a ride in this car now 'cuz we need to make a test-drive, right?
Tigran will be riding it, and I'm gonna film.
Okay, pretend you're leaving.
Whoop! Test drive, LOUD SOUND style.
Why did you turn it off so soon? Shoul've let the turbine cool down.
When I was listing components, I foregot to mention one very important thing.
We have a complete coupling here. There's two of each component in each door.
The cover has been completely remodelled. This is not a clip on panel on a part of the door.
Just like with Cerato, both the color and the texture have been picked in perfect marriage.
And, please, note the stitching. It's almost identical. Here's stock, here's custom.
The thread is a teeny bit thicker, if you take a really close look.
The stitches are so even some BMW guys could learn a bit here.
Some of them. Only some!
There are few of them, but sometimes we get BMWs whole re-coveries are something to cry about.
Let me stress it again, SOME of the guys. I don't mean that BMWs are poorly assempled.
Pride Solo 8 has an interesting peculiarity.
If you've seen the Solo 6 v.2 review, I called them the loudest 16.5 cm (6") speakers.
These also turned out the loudest.
The speakers are dependable, loud, the price is low. It's all cool.
But why did you stick the logo unevenly? Zoom in here, please, Tigran.
I wanted to ask Tigran why he installed those with logos uneven,
but then I realized that if you had the logo even, the screws wouldn't have fell in their spots.
So this is our little request to the producing party -
Please, rotate there. They turn out to be at this angle.
Minor stuff but still a point to make.
P.Audio. I guess you could call the SN series legendary.
Really loud and really quality at the same time cupboard speakers.
I used to have similar ones back in my BMW, 'cept those were 4"s.
This whole choir plays into the door which has been prepared at its best.
Really dense, heavy. Well vibroproofed.
This is the only way you can go with this number of mid-bass speakers.
Once we open the rear door, we can see... Tigran.
What the heck are you doin'?
[T]: I'm the lighting guy.
They troll us, you know.
Wht not? So simplistic. He grabbed a lamp and a sheet of paper.
And you get nice lighting. You can see, can't you?
Snakeskin, heat-shrink. All neat and pretty. I trolled this carpet a bit.
Tigran likes it, the client likes it. Everyone likes it but me.
I'd say we made a false panel here but there's no need in it
because, first of all, it's all behind the rear seatback.
And second of all, there might be more amps in here, so it's gonna be redone anyway.
So they both convinced me.
But I still don't like it. So write in comments if you like it.
The X-series amps. I don't know how many dosens of these we've installed.
They've grown really popular lately.
Very powerful amps with some nice sound in the output.
The settings are not that rich but for our objective, that's enough.
We've kept completely the stock screen, the stock HU.On top of it, stock tweeters in the doors.
And there are the stock rear speakers left. So we can use the stock system
which is almost intact, with the exception of the front speakers.
This TV, despite the fact it has this big nice screen, and it does even look nice, can do buttcus.
No TV, no navigation in there. It's just... pretty. That's all.
We can see this divine dashboard. Toyotas tend to have flawed ones.
There are pros and cons. The pro is, it's really good-looking.
The con is, if you own an expensive Toyota, you know your dash is the same as in the cheap ones.
If you own a cheap one, tho, you know that your dashboard is the same as that in a 200's.
Is it the same?
[T]: They're the same, yes.
[T]: Maybe some minor differences.
The HU is detached, hence it's in two spots.
In the glovebox - let's say, the upper glovebox there's the HU's body,
and the panel is right here, below the screen.
It's fastened with Tigran's favorite method. I'm even kinda scared to look there.
But it doeshold solid.
Can I tear it off, Tigran? Huh? Huh?!
[T]: Sure.
Oh, no, look, it holds.
So, this is Pioneer 80, one of the best processor-equipped HUs in the medium price range.
That is 10-12,000 rub.
Below that, there's Pioneer 580, Alpine 92.
In the meduim sector, this HU has never had a competition. Still doesn't.
In the upper segment, there's Pioneer 99. But nothing to replace this one.
Burr-Brown DACs are in there, like in the 88.
The settings are as follows: the sub set is off until a subwoofer is intalled.
The mid-bass shares this band with the mid-range speakers.
And let me answer your question - Why didn't we split them in two until we get a sub?
Well, because we didn't.
It would be much ado, additional wiring. Plus, the sub channel would have to be HPF-ed.
It's more convenient this way.
And it's more habitual to me - to have mid-ranges and the mid-bass on the same channel.
The mid-ranges are filtered somewhere here, in the middle, from the amp.
The mid-bass speaker are LPF-ed from the amp, as well.
Now, I'll show the filterng that's done here.
The band is limited at 125 Hz on the lower end, and 8 kHz on the higher one.
Tweeters pick up sameplace, at 8 kHz.
The filtering is with max order. Time delays are also set here.
And we've slightly finetuned it with the equalizer.
As for the sources, there's Bluetooth, USB, CD. Pretty much all you can think of.
Including aux.
An interesting project we got here.
Unfortunately, we couldn't take the car out for a spin which would've been really interesting.
Here, we have 3 directions - it's music (we're about to turn it on).
But the off-road and loading capacities are out-of-limits for us today.
Maybe Dmitriy, the owner, joins us later,
and we'll load a dead bear in the trunk and take off to the mountains for a ride.
So now, all we have left is to turn on the music.
Unfortunately, I don't know yet if it's copyright protected.
If it is, check out the listening on our second channel.
If it's not, well... Have a blast.
Bye, everyone. Live LOUD.
Just in case, don't clip it at 100 Hz. You really don't want that!
So they go and clip, and then bring speakers for warranty services ''Cuz Alex did it, too!'
That is not gonna help! Clip it at 125 Hz!
100 Hz is a very dangerous choice.
This is very loud, guys!
Very loud.
[A like for the bananas]
Alright! We almost witnessed a mid-bass-cide.
Max, what are you doing here?
[M]: Someone dumped me here. Hey.
Hi.
Check out this detailing?
So I asked them what ceramics they covered it with. They said, you know what? None.
So it burns for no obvious reason.
How d'you like it?
[M]: Yeah, 'cuz the small ones are definitely not complying with it.
I've just almost filmed a speaker-cide.
The filter menu was on, and I started scrolling thinking it was the volume.
So I just pulled the mid-basses down to 30 Hz.
[T]: Okay, let me stop it, so you can look at it.
No need. I trust you. You're gonna screw it anyway. What's the difference.
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