HWill

Anyone heard about the ZEN-A2B from NavTV?

https://navtv.com/products/NTV-KIT873/zen-a2b.html

Since I'm getting ready to get started on my stereo install on my 2018 F150 with the B&O system I been looking around for all the information I can get and came across this.
Seems pretty pricey and want to see if anyone had any input on it. So far I have only seen 1 for sell on Amazon for $849.

Herb

dhmcfadin

I have been searching high and low for this! But $849.00? Holy cow! You can buy a nice dsp for that kind of money! Hell, the DSR1 is 249.99. There's got to be a cheaper option.

dhmcfadin

Can you post the amazon link? NavTv is saying they are sold out.

Update. I spoke to them, it's back in stock on their website now. They offered me free shipping. Still can't convince myself to do it yet. I would think there will be more options coming down the pipeline from other manufacturers.

HWill

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I also called and talked to their Sales and Tech Support. I liked what I heard about the unit and I'm pretty close to ordering it since it is back in stock.


Herb

Gerald Beaudoin

I ordered mine yeaterday.

I have my system built using an AudioControl DM-810 DSP and cant for the life of me get things tuned properly. The time delay/channel summing is horrible.

I will hopefully have the Zen Unit in hand tomorrow night and report on it

dhmcfadin

Removing the factory b&o dsp/amp with built in time alignment/ audience settings will fix your problems. You won't be dealing with those tuning issues much longer. I feel very confident.

HWill

Nice, I ordered mine last night.

Herb

HushCarAudio

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Gerald Beaudoin

Got mine today. 44 hrs from giving credit card # to having it in my hands. Pretty good for international shipment!

She is all installed and worth every penny (to me anyway)

My Coles notes:

Unit is really small. About the size of two pack of smokes. Mounting tabs would be a nice touch. I wrapped some nylon tie straps around it and screwed it to the back side of my amp wall.

I ran optical output from the Zen to my Audiocontrol dm-810
At first, I thought I had full fader and balance control, but it turned out I didnt. Fader messes with the balance. With fader set to middle, balance works fine.

When tying into the Can Lo and Hi signal wires, you might be tempted to just cut the wire from the plug - there are two of each going into the factory amp plug, using common pin on the plug. The system needs the can low and hi to go through this, so you have to "tee" into one set of these, or else a bunch of other stuff wont work (like your dash, speedo, tach, radio (important)...

Overall instalation was quite simple.

SOUND QUALITY: !!!! WOW
One million percent improvement. No time delay messing with the signal summing... flat EQ.

I am sure pricing of this unit will come down when there is some competition, but I am more than satisfied.

Gerald Beaudoin

Running optical into the DM-810, I ended up with a full rage signal showing on channel 3-4 and 7-8 on the inputs.