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Seconded. Is there a sub involved, or separate tweeters, for example? Even if we knew, the acoustics between individual vehicles, not to mention vehicle types (truck vs. car) are so different that what works well in my little coupe might likely sound like garbage in a larger vehicle. Best suggestion I can give is to A/B lots of different settings through trial-and-error, and write them down this time. For what it's worth, the Loudness on my D2 makes things sound universally worse, but EQ-EX does seem to improve things.

Is anyone else having issues doing a POI 'Search by Vicinity' off this West disc, or is it just me? Please give it a shot next time you get in the car if you would. The filesize I've got matches the one on the FTP, and it was burned on low speed on Verbatim media.

I believe so. A year or so ago someone made an updated XM graphic list for the stations that were new.

I think it was the creepy laughing clown on the comedy section that convinced me to make up some new category icons. Here's the custom icons that I put together, just unrar them and plop them over the current icons in the XMCAT folder before burning. You can use PimViewto decide which ones you want and which ones suck, or you can just import the whole mess in. Here's a sample of what they look like in animated gif form: Country Rock Dance Decades Jazz Sports Urban Classical XMCAT.rar

Thanks! Is this a mirror of the one that's been out for a few weeks, or a new rip of the actual release disc? The one that's been going around doesn't work with the D2 as far as I know, even after tweaking the files with the 70 disc.

Has anyone successfully updated their D2 with any of the files out currently? Mine bombs out even after patching in the missing EU050APL files (PRG & HTM). It updates and all the buttons work, but the map is completely borked. I'm going to just wait for an official release before I waste any more DL discs.

You can use a regular 4.7GB DVD, but you have to rip the DVD to your hard drive and remove the points of interest to make room.

Circuit City screwed up my D2 installation something brutal. After bringing it back to them 3 times, I finally decided to re-work the install myself. It's sad that after a few days of research I was able to do a better job than the so-called 'professionals' at CC.

Got some background / boot screens for you all. A lot of the stuff is just crops of pieces from DeviantArt and similar sites. I like my backgrounds to be, well, backgrounds, so I generally avoided anything with text on it. I use the first one as my boot screen. I've also made some custom category graphics since I got tired of looking at the default Pioneer ones. I think it was the creepy clown graphic on the comedy category that motivated me to do that. I'll see if I can't put those up later.

Yep, they can absolutely be changed. Ideally I wanted to resize them so that you wouldn't get that border of your background wallpaper behind them, but that doesn't work. You can change the colors if you just open the gauge jpgs up and edit them in Photoshop. I altered mine to match my car's interior for day & night.

It's great. I used the touchscreen at first to switch stations, but after a few months and getting to know the stations and categories, I just use the knob to meander around so I can switch stations without looking at the unit. I don't even use the 'favorites' functionality anymore since I decided it was limiting my variety.

It's only a once-in-a-while thing for when I have to park downtown. For my setup, I can easily pop the trim ring off and use the aformentioned l-bracket to put it over the unit. I just have to build some 'sides' to it so that it doesn't just look like a front hanging over a D2.

My accuracy increased dramatically when I mounted the GPS outside of the car versus inside.

I'm building a fake radio front with a crappy double-din radio from a thrift store. I've got the front taken off with the buttons superglued on, I'm just working on how to fit it over the Avic now.

It's great for me in Phoenix. There are times where it lags behind excessively, but more often than not it's a great timesaver.