Skar Audio SKA7EQ 7 Band 1/2 DIN Pre-Amp Car Audio Graphic Equalizer with Aux Input and High Voltage RCA Outputs

Best Eq i have ever purchased

Does the job right and affordable. If you're a starter and just wanna tune up your audio, grab this. Never failed me.

In addition to being too bulky-sized, home graphic equalizers (Rockville brand seems to now have a monopoly) tend to receive a high number of very negative reviews.To plug in any highly-praised, 12-volt car equalizer into your home's 120-volt power outlet, you will need to buy the following:(1)A plug-in, on-off switch, for example:"UltraPro Grounded Power Switch, 2 Pack, 3 Prong, White, $8.99"(2)A 120-volt AC to 12-volt DC converter, for example:"BYGD AC to DC Converter, 100V ~ 240V to 12V 10A 120W, Car Cigarette Lighter Socket AC/DC Power Supply Adapter Transformer, $19.99"(3)A 12-volt cigarette lighter male plug with leads, for example:"EXTRACTME 2 Pack 12V Fused Cigarette Lighter Male Plug with Leads & LED Light, 16AWG Car Replacement Cigarette Lighter Plug Adapter, $5.99"If you want to get fancy, you might also want to buy:(1)Several 3.5mm stereo female to dual RCA male Y adapters, for example:"6 Inch 3.5mm Female to 2 RCA Male Stereo Audio Y Cable, Nickel Plated Adapter, 6 Pack, $7.10"(2)Several high quality 3.5mm stereo audio cables, for example:"2 Pack AUX Cord, 3.5mm Audio Cable [5 Foot /1.5M Hi-Fi Sound] AUX Auxiliary Cable, $6.88" or"1 Foot 3.5mm Male to Male Stereo Audio Cable Headphone/Phone / MP3 Cable, $4.97"(3)For the most important electrical connections in your life, you might want to use a terminal block or a busbar instead of just using twist caps or crimps, for example:"RECOIL Dual Row Busbar Positive and Negative 2 x 5/16 Studs 1 x #8 Screw Terminals Power and Ground Distribution Block with Ring Terminals Red & Black, $21.99"(4)If you buy the above RECOIL brand busbar, then you will also need to buy either an adjustable wrench or a complete combination wrench set. Strangely, if you buy just a 5/16-inch combination wrench, then it will be way too small to fit the 5/16-inch nuts that are provided with the above RECOIL brand busbar because a combination wrench measures the outer diameter of the bolt, not the outer diameter of the nut, which can vary slightly from brand to brand. Thus, don't buy:"Crescent 5/16" 12 Point Combination Wrench - CCW1-05, $4.29"because it will be way too small to fit the outer diameter of the 5/16-inch nuts.If your Skar equalizer is mounted in your car, then the black wire would need to be connected to GND, the red wire would need to be connected to BATT+, and the blue wire would need to be connected to REM = "remote."If the blue wire were left disconnected, then your equalizer would always be off and never turn on, or, it would always be on and never turn off, thereby draining your car battery, even while your car is parked and turned off.Thus, the purpose of the blue wire in all cars is to turn on your equalizer only when your car ignition key is turned on and to turn off your equalizer immediately after you turn off your car ignition key and remove the key to go back into your home.At home, you won't have a blue wire.You will have only a black wire and a red wire coming from your 12-volt cigarette lighter male plug with leads.Connect the black wire to your equalizer's GND terminal and connect the red wire to both the BATT+ terminal and the REM terminal on your equalizer (see illustration).

Great I like it

Bought this EQ to use with sub and amp for better control of the bass in my vehicle. Everything works as it should the only gripe I have with this is the LEDs are extremely bright especially at night not only that they were shining right in at my face, I had opened up the EQ to look for a way to dim the lights when I found out that it has 12 LEDs behind the face cover; what I did was just slightly bend them upwards so that they aren’t pointing straight forward.

Absolutely great product. Great look great sound quality. Feels sturdy and high end. The only draw back in my opinion is I would have liked to have markings on the diles there is a mid point click but other than that its a guessing game. Overall though I love it its prodigious

Made a huge difference in the sound quality I have all Skar equipment in my truck and it sounds amazing..Thks Skar

Just what I needed to take my factory radio upgrade to the next level. This was like the cherry on top of the full Skar install in my Cruze RS. I'd hoped the two pairs of Skar component sixes, powered by my Skar 75.4 amplifier could sound just a smidgeroni cleaner. The bottom end was already rounded out sexily by the SDR12 (flexing around 600 watts).To my surprise, not only did the equalizer smooth out any ear turds in the mid to upper range...this magnificent little bastard was able to breathe new life into my low end, too.This sucker breaks out separate inputs, employing the perfect frequency curve to my sub like magic. It now quite literally brings me tears of joy anytime I leave the house. Thanks, Skar...you've gone and done it again.