Looking for Kenwood Excelon KFC-X174 or other similar new

[alitayyab]

As the title suggests, looking for new Kenwood Excelon KFC-X174 or closest available. If not that than Pioneer TS-D65F.
(Note to self: Dont be stingy on space!)

Thank you.

[c4capricorn]

Contact devils_smile (Mustafa). He can help you out.

[devils_smile]

Any perticular reason why these specific models?

Problem is, it's near impossible to find excelon range from kenwood in pakistan unless its brought in used. Dunno why since they are possibly the best range of equipment from kenwood

[pwuser152075387677]

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Thank you, Hassan zia
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[alitayyab]

Thank you for the reply
I listened to them should've bought them. They sounedd very very nice to my tone deaf ears . Running off a medeke m7pro stock. I got a similar head unit and as I said should've bought the speakers as well

Anything that comes close? High sensitivity, 4 ohms coaxials and available around the same price bracket

As an alternate I can go a 4 ch digital under seat amp with digital audio inputs and some decent coaxial speakers. I can pretty much wire it myself. Only need the equipment and plumbing. Right now I have jbl stage 2 624s running off the head unit. To me the Kenwood sounded better than the jbls on nearly identical equipment

[devils_smile]

You got to demo speakers that use a soft dome tweeter. In comparison, your jbl's use a pei plastic tweeter. The difference is always going to be there. One type of tweeter is louder, crisp and can be regarded as bright. The other type isn't as loud but is a lot smooth and natural sounding. You'll notice most mid/high end comps/coaxials use the silk soft dome tweeters for this same reason

There are a few options available for under 30k that use silk soft dome tweeters. Are you running an android unit or a pioneer (if I remember correctly, you did buy one right?)

[alitayyab]

I had a pioneer, sold it for a good bit of profit and got a Dudu 7. One thing I learned with Android Units based off FYT/ Spedtrum/ Unisoc designs is to ditch their music player and use either power amp or aimp. Those paired with high quality FLACs from something like Tidal makes these players sound much, much better, at-least to my ears I could barely tell the difference between the Pioneer I had (9350), though it wasnt one of the newer (NEX in the USA) units. The Androids are much faster, offer better functionality that is more useful for my use case (split screen, TPMS integration, ambient light integration, DVR, 360 cameras etc etc) and since I got the dudu from the profit off the pioneer, the Dudu was practically free.

TL;DR. So right now I the dudu is running JBLs. What would you suggest?

[devils_smile]

Why not buy components? Apart from the tweeter design itself, having them placed higher up will make the sound stage better too?

A small class D amp will be super beneficial too. This setup is meant for your swift correct?

[alitayyab]

Yes swift,

Honestly I don't like seeing little Tweety sticking out, thus my usual insistence on coaxials.
It's more of a obsession thing