c6 questions
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Racer
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From: santa clarita ca
c6 questions
Went to another shop in socal today to geta quote. my original thought was to go w/ 6 1/2 components in door, 5 1/4 in rear and the kenwood ksc-sw1 powered sub. then a 4 channel amp to powedr the doors and rear.
the place i went today obviously wanted to make some money. they store i went to today steered me in the direction of doing tweeters in the door where the 3"mids are, replace the 10 in woofers w/ morel subs in the door and replace the rears w/ some cheaper 5 1/4 2 ways. then they would add a AUDISON 4 channel amp to run all the speakers in which this particular amp accepts high level inputs direct from the head unit. no need for line converters. w/ install they wanted $1900.00. the 2 subs alone were quoted at $750.00. i thought this was quite expensive. the only nice thing is that there would be no need for a sub enclosure in the rear.
what are your thoughts? other than price, is morel and audison good quality parts?
the place i went today obviously wanted to make some money. they store i went to today steered me in the direction of doing tweeters in the door where the 3"mids are, replace the 10 in woofers w/ morel subs in the door and replace the rears w/ some cheaper 5 1/4 2 ways. then they would add a AUDISON 4 channel amp to run all the speakers in which this particular amp accepts high level inputs direct from the head unit. no need for line converters. w/ install they wanted $1900.00. the 2 subs alone were quoted at $750.00. i thought this was quite expensive. the only nice thing is that there would be no need for a sub enclosure in the rear.
what are your thoughts? other than price, is morel and audison good quality parts?
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IMO its great stuff but theres no point, for 99% of the ppl they will never notice the difference. And further more your highend equpiment will only sound as good as the weakest link. Here is what I tell ppl you want 700 dollar speakers better get a 700 dollar radio if you get what I am saying.
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Originally Posted by pentavolvo
IMO its great stuff but theres no point, for 99% of the ppl they will never notice the difference. And further more your highend equpiment will only sound as good as the weakest link. Here is what I tell ppl you want 700 dollar speakers better get a 700 dollar radio if you get what I am saying.
The weakest link in the chain is the one you will soon break off the chain and replace.... (ancient chinese proverb... )
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The weakest link in the chain is the one you will soon break off the chain and replace.... (ancient chinese proverb... ) 
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From: Skippack PA
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Originally Posted by x-mann
Went to another shop in socal today to geta quote. my original thought was to go w/ 6 1/2 components in door, 5 1/4 in rear and the kenwood ksc-sw1 powered sub. then a 4 channel amp to powedr the doors and rear.
the place i went today obviously wanted to make some money. they store i went to today steered me in the direction of doing tweeters in the door where the 3"mids are, replace the 10 in woofers w/ morel subs in the door and replace the rears w/ some cheaper 5 1/4 2 ways. then they would add a AUDISON 4 channel amp to run all the speakers in which this particular amp accepts high level inputs direct from the head unit. no need for line converters. w/ install they wanted $1900.00. the 2 subs alone were quoted at $750.00. i thought this was quite expensive. the only nice thing is that there would be no need for a sub enclosure in the rear.
what are your thoughts? other than price, is morel and audison good quality parts?
the place i went today obviously wanted to make some money. they store i went to today steered me in the direction of doing tweeters in the door where the 3"mids are, replace the 10 in woofers w/ morel subs in the door and replace the rears w/ some cheaper 5 1/4 2 ways. then they would add a AUDISON 4 channel amp to run all the speakers in which this particular amp accepts high level inputs direct from the head unit. no need for line converters. w/ install they wanted $1900.00. the 2 subs alone were quoted at $750.00. i thought this was quite expensive. the only nice thing is that there would be no need for a sub enclosure in the rear.
what are your thoughts? other than price, is morel and audison good quality parts?
Also they obviously don't know the C6 at all because there are LOW level outputs available from the back of the head, there's no amplification done at the head unit so there's no high level signal to be had there. While I worked around the factory head because I went factory NAV after falling prey to the siren song of NAV HUD integration, if I had to do it all over again I'd do as these Chinese philosophers above suggest
and start from scratch, including a new head unit.4 channel amp is a good start, but instead of a tweet and a sub in the door I'd go with your original plan of a 6.5" component setup in the door, decent 5.25" coaxials for rear fill and some sort of sub in the back.
