This technology is nothing new, even for single DIN car stereos. My Pioneer P1-R had this technology five years ago (maybe even longer as I don't know the exact date the stereo was released) and I have seen it in numerous other products. None of them work very well. They all play noise out of the speakers and measure and analyze it with a microphone for time alignment and equalization purposes, but the results are not very good. It generally overboosts the highs and makes the tonality sound thin. It is incomparable with proper tuning with an RTA.
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This technology is nothing new, even for single DIN car stereos. My Pioneer P1-R had this technology five years ago (maybe even longer as I don't know the exact date the stereo was released) and I have seen it in numerous other products. None of them work very well. They all play noise out of the speakers and measure and analyze it with a microphone for time alignment and equalization purposes, but the results are not very good. It generally overboosts the highs and makes the tonality sound thin. It is incomparable with proper tuning with an RTA.