Hello (5 months later),
Couldn't help but notice the Sherwood DTS chatter. I bought and sold several of these components, installing one system in my car and shipping another setup to my best friend to put in his car out west. Neither are still working or even in our possession! I may have had an ebay transaction or two with folks here...[g]
In brief, his installer didn't hook up the decoder (?!?) and the head unit stopped accepting CDs altogether soon after.
My installation drove me insane as the decoder would work after hooking it all up UNTIL I turned off the head unit. It would not light up after that no matter what you did. If you dragged a 12V power supply to the car it *might* work.
That, coupled with the generally feeble stereo sound caused me to give up on these "high dollar components". I tore up a nice stereo rig with subs that I was perfectly happy for all this misadventure. [since restored w/12 disc instead of 6]
My next attempt at car 5.1 was the Panasonic PA-65 DVD-A player that played my DTS CDRs (even when manual says no). I even made a color diagram of the setup, which would switch between AM/FM/Cass head unit, DVD-A/DTS player and even portable DAT!
Biggest problem? Master Volume control. I didn't feel like making one, so I used three RS thumbwheel volumes on the 3 1/8" stereo cables. What a pain! Hard to balance when you're changing center AND sub at the same time. [I gave up before buying a 4th volume wheel!]
2nd biggest problem: switching inputs - so I got a Pioneer switchbox to manage the four main channels and a 3 input stereo switchbox to manage sub and center inputs. [NOTE: Many/most DTS 4.0 recordings lack LFE channel boom, so I wanted to "copy" Front channels into Sub so the subs weren't sleeping while those played]
3rd biggest problem: wiring mess, getting it all to work at the same time and the resulting noise. Then I cooked the rare Pioneer switchbox by shorting hot lead to it... I'll stop there....
Regards, Tim (timbre4)
Couldn't help but notice the Sherwood DTS chatter. I bought and sold several of these components, installing one system in my car and shipping another setup to my best friend to put in his car out west. Neither are still working or even in our possession! I may have had an ebay transaction or two with folks here...[g]
In brief, his installer didn't hook up the decoder (?!?) and the head unit stopped accepting CDs altogether soon after.
My installation drove me insane as the decoder would work after hooking it all up UNTIL I turned off the head unit. It would not light up after that no matter what you did. If you dragged a 12V power supply to the car it *might* work.
That, coupled with the generally feeble stereo sound caused me to give up on these "high dollar components". I tore up a nice stereo rig with subs that I was perfectly happy for all this misadventure. [since restored w/12 disc instead of 6]
My next attempt at car 5.1 was the Panasonic PA-65 DVD-A player that played my DTS CDRs (even when manual says no). I even made a color diagram of the setup, which would switch between AM/FM/Cass head unit, DVD-A/DTS player and even portable DAT!
Biggest problem? Master Volume control. I didn't feel like making one, so I used three RS thumbwheel volumes on the 3 1/8" stereo cables. What a pain! Hard to balance when you're changing center AND sub at the same time. [I gave up before buying a 4th volume wheel!]
2nd biggest problem: switching inputs - so I got a Pioneer switchbox to manage the four main channels and a 3 input stereo switchbox to manage sub and center inputs. [NOTE: Many/most DTS 4.0 recordings lack LFE channel boom, so I wanted to "copy" Front channels into Sub so the subs weren't sleeping while those played]
3rd biggest problem: wiring mess, getting it all to work at the same time and the resulting noise. Then I cooked the rare Pioneer switchbox by shorting hot lead to it... I'll stop there....
Regards, Tim (timbre4)