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Thank you! I am currently doing a Tesla from Huntington Beach, California. It has been done before!

Nothing from the screen is touched during installation. The only connection in the car that is modified or touched, is the speaker output out of the OEM amplifier. So nothing is unplugged or modified during the installation. And given that we know the issue surfaced right after a firmware...

So considering this is a software issue and it started right after an update, there is no other question. Any aftermarket system would get it's signal AFTER the factory amplifier. Which insures that communication between the MCU and amplifier are uninterrupted. All data functions exactly as it...

Here is the the video behind the build.

This client made the trip 200 miles to take care of his audio system in his Tesla. Knowing we have done quite a few, he gave us the opportunity to design something special for him. In the front we used a set of Illusion Carbon C6 Components. They are housed in a hand fabricated PVC adapter to...

Apt X HD can far surpass cd quality. CD Quality is 16 bit, 44kHz. Apt-x HD can transfer at minimum 24bit /48kHz. With AMAS 2 we can play DSD, 32bit , 384kHz files which are far superior resolution to 16 bit / 44kHZ. With my iPhone, I transfer my hi-res files to apple lossless AAC. So I can...

So in this system, listening through the Tesla radio would be the equivalent of watching a DVD (non bluray on a 4k system). You were not even getting 50% of the total quality experience the equipment has to offer. The factory radio has a lot of inputs that have to be summed and level matched...

What do you mean by "when the input song was overboosted" ? I am not sure what that means. I would also like to know what preset, what source, what track, and is it compressed? How are you locking into the rear? When I tune the rears, they are time delayed about 8ms away from the front and are...

Wow, so if you think that EQ curve sounds good, just wait until it is set up and tuned properly. Must have sounded unbearable before. Breaking in is still a thing, as the speakers properties will change after some playing, which is why I always offer a free retune after a month or so.

Do you have the OEM UHFS system...because if not the mid range in your recently replaced Focal Flax speaker would sound horrible. That is a really bad curve.

Your picture of the RTA showing the input is the exact reason you CANNOT swap speakers in a modern car and expect it to sound good. That front stage has a dramatic change in eq points across the entire spectrum. Your RTA shows 20 dB swings from the midrange to high end. The reason the...

I have a customer from Houston, TX shipping his P100D next month. :)

What happens is once it hits the top of the hinge, the weight creates torque and it starts to close. I have seen it on the Model S trunk with to much sound dampening.

Yes, it works both ways. But the Model X provides a challenge with the motorized doors. Adding enough weight to those doors, they will come back down as it gets up to the hinge point (they will think they are being pushed back down). Unless Tesla can reflash the sensor to accept more weight...

Slacker is 256kbps-320kbps....Satellite radio is 32kbps- 64kbps.......Flac 16bit 44kHz is around 1600 kbps (cd quality) and DSD far supersedes that of cd quality. Up to 512 times that of cd quality...... Satellite radio is the VHS of audio Slacker, Pandora, and iTunes is the DVD of audio FLAC...

Here are the reuploaded walk through videos from the build in this thread.

Just want to update people following this thread that I am now at Sound FX in Lewes, Delaware (no state sales tax!) I can be reached at (302) 729-2495 or [email protected]

I am in Lewes, Delaware (no sales tax!) at SoundFX. I have done a ton of Tesla's throughout the area and even some that have been shipping in across the country. I recently left my old employer at Safe and Sound and now reside at Sound FX. Let me know if you have any questions. I built a...

Keep in mind @artisjr, that I am now at SoundFX. I don't want to see a bunch of guys going to Safe and Sound thinking they are going to get the same results of what they have seen in these videos. Much like the work you are promoting.

Just want you to know that I am the head tech that worked on all the Tesla's that came to Safe and Sound. All of the prior jobs you have seen were done by myself. Should you proceed with Safe and Sound, you would be getting the work done by a different tech. I have recently moved to SoundFX in...

Here are a few different versions of aftermarket equipment I have fabricated into the Tesla, replicating an OEM design.

Here are a few Model S jobs that I have done. I give a full walk through of what we did and why in each video.

Thanks guys!!!!

Here is where I did mine......Invisible :)

Here is a video on YouTube of a fully concealed custom k40 and AL Priority system installation.

Here is a video on YouTube of a fully concealed custom k40 and AL Priority system installation.

Yes, you are right there. A god bit of money in equipment in this one.

I typically replace the OEM 12v battery under the hood with a Lithium Ion. I then run a 12v circuit breaker (typically fused at 300A), and have that run through the firewall down the passenger side into the compartment where the factory subwoofer resides in the UHFS system. I make a mount to...

Yup, it sure can. I have done audio systems in these as high as $50k. Some people ask, what a $50k audio system sounds like.....well you have to hear it to believe it. Sound like you are listening to the artist live in front of you. Guaranteed you will hear a ton of things you have never heard...

No problem...Its important that everyone is educated on how to actually improve the sound. Its not as easy as just throwing some speakers in the car. In theory it makes sense, but if the signal does not change, than neither will audio. Much like buying a 4k TV and bringing it home and running a...

I never recreate a design I have done. I try an keep everything unique to each customer. So with that being said, I typically design a system to fit each customers expectations and budget. Starting with a full solution (front speakers, DSP, amp / amps, sub and tune along with the integration you...

Thanks!

Here is a write up with pictures and a video walk through on the latest one off audio system upgrade for the Model S. @Xenoilphobe Starting out with the audio, we went with the Focal NO.6 Utopia in the fronts run fully active, powered by a Mosconi ZERO4 Amplifier. I built custom a-pillars...

Speakers are only as good as the master EQ signal. All car manufactures rely heavily on DSP to create cheaper and cheaper speakers. With controlling the master DSP (Not what you see as bass, mid and treble), they can make the 5 cent paper and plastic speakers sound as best as possible, without...

Great write up. I often like to make analogies with home video because we can all understand what we can see. Listening to Hi-Res music is the only way to go once you experience it. It is like watching a bunch of 4k movies on your new high end 4k TV, then all of the sudden trying to watch a...

This car here I don't believe has UHFS. We only did a subwoofer upgrade at this time. However, with my experience in the past with the standard and UHFS, there is less signal distortion on the standard system. That would be the preferred for integration.

Here is another video on this build.

@artisjr

Thank you very much for the kind words @artisjr . Your reaction to what I made is the reason all the hard work and late nights are worth it. It is great seeing the true passion and excitement we all share for audio. It was a lot of fun and cannot wait to finish what we started.

Hope that makes viewing the photos easier :)

We have a controller which is connected to our aftermarket DSP. We have 2 presets. Preset 1 is for the Tesla Entertainment system and Preset 2 is for toslink into the DSP. So we are using both sources through the same system.

I run it though a custom preset on a Mosconi 8to12 Aerospace DSP. It could be run through the OEM, but it will run through quite a bit of compression. We have the option to run it through toslink or BT through AMAS, which is a hi end uncompressed bluetooth chip.

Here you go Astell & Kern AK380

Go with the Astell. Here is a AK380 we are using for the Tesla job I just finished up.