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Old     (Gotmods)      Join Date: Nov 2012       02-23-2017, 7:14 PM Reply   
My head unit crapped. I have a clarion eq. If I get the 420bt is it a 1 and done. Or is the Exile media center the way to go and run it with my clarion?
Old     (chpthril)      Join Date: Oct 2007       02-23-2017, 7:59 PM Reply   
If you arent looking for AM/FM, CD etc, then the WS-420BT or WS-220BT would replace the head unit and the clarion eq. Or, for the same price, go with the WS-420SA and the Wet Sounds BTSW blue tooth rocker or BTVC.

The Wet sounds marine zone volume controls have a coated BCB, master volume, tower and in-boat volume rather than fade. A true sub level control without the non-defeatable fixed sub low-pass x-over. The 220 has 4 zone control and the 420 has a dual 4 band EQ compared to the single eq of the clarion and others. With them, if you EQ the towers, it effects the in-boats and visa versa. With the Wet Sounds EQ, you can tune the tower zone independent of the in-boats. Cant do that with any other.

JL and Metra also offer the same media center if that route still interests you.
Old     (wakebrad)      Join Date: Aug 2005       02-24-2017, 8:29 AM Reply   
The same thing happened to me with my head unit - I went with the 420bt which I could never go back from; the ability to easily tweak bass, low-mid, mid, and treble independently at each speaker is amazing.

There is an issue though and I'm planning to rectify it this season. The output from BT or Aux cord directly from a smartphone is unprocessed making the sound a bit harsh to listen to. I am planning to buy a receiver as an input to the 420bt just to process the sound before it gets amplified.
Old     (Gotmods)      Join Date: Nov 2012       02-24-2017, 8:49 AM Reply   
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The same thing happened to me with my head unit - I went with the 420bt which I could never go back from; the ability to easily tweak bass, low-mid, mid, and treble independently at each speaker is amazing.

There is an issue though and I'm planning to rectify it this season. The output from BT or Aux cord directly from a smartphone is unprocessed making the sound a bit harsh to listen to. I am planning to buy a receiver as an input to the 420bt just to process the sound before it gets amplified.
Do any of the bt units process the sound from the smart phone? Looking at the rocker switch that might be the way I go since I have a spot for it.
Old     (chpthril)      Join Date: Oct 2007       02-24-2017, 9:43 AM Reply   
@brad,

Im sure you already have, but make sure your phones internal EQ settings are flat or off. Nothing makes blue tooth to a full range system sound like @$$, faster than the phones EQ settings.

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