need help with audio please
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From: miami fl
need help with audio please
guys i own a 1998 c5 vette no convert or frc .the stock system was booming and sounded great but got board of it ,so had a local shop replace the bose radio cd/player and put in a pioneed deh p860 mp player with 2 kicker l7 subs the car sounded like wow omg lol .everyone heard me from miles away lol .in miami its called disturbing the piece lol .so i took them off and want to go back to stock .i have all the stock speakers ..rears come aolo.the fronts ive noticed come with like an amp ..what i want to know is if i can just hook up the stock radio .with the stock speakers and will i have the amazeing sound bose puts out .or did the guy uninstall the amp that comes with the stock radio .i need my old sound back .i left the pioneer with the new speakers with out the sub and they sound like crap i need help
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If we are going to be the english/grammar police maybe we should use punctuation and proper capitalization as well?
Oh and grammar is spelled with an "a" not an "e"
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Oh and grammar is spelled with an "a" not an "e"
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Last edited by Mike02z; Apr 29, 2009 at 04:06 PM.
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How is anyone here suppose to know what your installer did? My guess is he did not take anything out. The question is did he rewire for the new system or try and use the existing wiring. No one can answer that except the installer. You can put it all back the way it was most likely but whether it will just plug back in and work no one here can tell you. I suggest you ask the installer or take it part yourself and investiagte. Sorry but I doubt anyone here can help you without knowing what the installer did.
Melting Slicks
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Like Mike said it is hard to know what the installer did. Pull the radio out, plug the stock bose unit back in, pull your door panel and speaker mount and find the factory wiring and plug your stock speaker back in and see if it works. Not much else you can do without spending needless cash at an installer that is probably 50/50 at best knowing what he was doing in the first place, let alone remembering what he did in your car.
G'luck
Fej
G'luck
Fej
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From: miami fl
dosent the c5 only have 4 speakers ,2 fronts and 2 rears .i have the front speakers and they do come with an amp .but the rears come just with the speakers .am i right ? .so the fact hu does not come with an amp behind it .
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Melting Slicks
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The Bose system consists of the following:
Factory C5 specific head unit.
Bose remote mounted equalizer/processor
Front speakers (two-way)
Rear speakers (full range)
The front speakers are a two-way design, utilizing an eight inch bass driver and a 3.5" 'twiddler' with is supposed to handle the mids/highs. (But does a really crappy job of it.)
As Fej said, the head unit powers the front 3.5" 'twiddlers' and the rear speakers. The eight inch bass drivers each have their own amplifier, which is mounted to the plastic enclosure that holds the two-way speaker system together.
There isn't any other audio amplifier located inside the car.
If your installer hasn't hacked up your stereo/wiring harness, then you should be able to reinstall the factory system without any problems. If you want to install just the speakers and power it with an aftermarket HU, then you need an adapter to send the signal to the Bose bass driver amplifiers. Figure about $50-100 for that component. You can find more info in the FAQ at the top of the main page.
Hope this helps.
Mark
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From: miami fl
i have a pioneer hu can i put the stock speakers and conect them with the plug that the fron speakers have and but that component you said for 100 bucks .will it sound like stock or what
Melting Slicks
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For little investment, you can improve the performance of the stock system pretty easily. You can also spend $4k and have it sound like a$$ if you don't get it set up right, with components that work together. IE you don't want 2000 watts on your sub, and stock door speakers.
Good luck man
Fej
Good luck man
Fej