MX Series Premier zone control on GS20/22

[bakerdr27]

Can anyone verify that the zone control described in the Linc Panoray manual is included in the MX Series Premier stereo option on the GS20/22?

[HVL2010]

It does not...only in the G-series boats. I think we might have connected on FB about this already though.

[T-Rex]

The only zone control on the GS20 is to fade between the tower and the cabin speakers. Exile makes a $200 part that would solve this issue, not sure why zone control isn't standard.

[MLA]

Kicker make a $99 dual zone volume controller that is also a line driver and doesnt require long RCA runs. Rozwell offers a dual zone knob for $35 ($25 less than the exact same piece with the exile name). Package with their 5 meter 3 chnl RCA's and you are still half of what ever exile offers for $200. For the same price as the exile zld, you can get the Wet Sounds WS-420SQ 3 zone volume line driver and DUAL 4 band EQ. Its 2X the unit the zld is for the same retail price.

[whitecaps]

Can someone explain the difference in zone control and fader? Seems like you're wanting to increase or decrease volume from tower to cabin speakers???

[HVL2010]

Zone control would be breaking all the zones (tower, inboat, bow, subwoofer) versus a traditional fader (front/rear) and balance (left/right). A bit more control is all.

[MLA]

Fade is a ratio between the front chnls and the rear chnls. We can use the front and rear fade for a tower and in-boat zone. It works somewhat ok, but on most head units, fade is buried in a sub menu and only accessible through the head unit, not a helm remote.

True zone control puts the volume control for each zone right at the captain's finger tips. rather than adjusting a ration between traditional front a rear, you are actually controlling the zone volume independently of each other.

[T-Rex]

My less-than-ideal workaround is to fade out the tower speakers completely until time to surf/board, then adjust the fade to increase volume to the towers.

[HVL2010]

That is my plan.

[charlesml3]

My less-than-ideal workaround is to fade out the tower speakers completely until time to surf/board, then adjust the fade to increase volume to the towers.

That's what a lot of people do. It's pretty easy to do with this: https://www.amazon.com/JL-Audio-HD-R...BEK196GK66YVC0

Technically you're not adjusting "fade" with this. It doesn't change the ratio. All this does is attenuate whatever channel it's set to control.

-Charles