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Imho, while keeping the Bose subs and adding good coax tweeter/mids does improve things quite a bit, it's certainly not audiophile quality. However, in a convertible, it's plenty good enough to me. I actually remove the PO's homemade stealth box sub in the rear, and don't miss it at all. It was nice to get the added storage back.
Who kept the original Bose speakers and what did you think? Or is it best just to replace the speakers?
I started with the Bose speakers and an aftermarket head unit. Lasted about a year. I then went with a double din kenwood, kenwood amp, morel speakers up front, JL in the back and a JL sub. I also put in dynamat in the back and in the doors. Sound is night and day.
You guys make my head spin. I love good sound but everything I read is all Greek to me. Last time I bought any thing sound related it was an under dash 8 track unit for my 64 Barracuda!
All you have to do is space them out by gutting a speaker grille and putting it on the back.
The door panels will fit.
I crammed an 8" MB Quart 3 way component setup in the doors, actually fit pretty well, just had to drill two extra mounting holes in the doors and hid my 5 channel amp under the passenger seat. I ran those same RF amps for a long, long time in my truck.
Crap, no pics on my phone. Edit: found one mock up pic
Also hid a 10" sub in the back
Last edited by Shaolin Crane; Dec 9, 2017 at 01:40 PM.
I crammed an 8" MB Quart 3 way component setup in the doors, actually fit pretty well, just had to drill two extra mounting holes in the doors and hid my 5 channel amp under the passenger seat. I ran those same RF amps for a long, long time in my truck.
Crap, no pics on my phone. Edit: found one mock up pic
Also hid a 10" sub in the back
You should add Schoshe level controls to the side of the console next to the seat for your hi/mid/sub amps to better adjust the tunes
Last edited by StrangelovesM6Vert; Dec 9, 2017 at 02:07 PM.
You should add Schoshe level controls to the side of the console next to the seat for your hi/mid/sub amps to better adjust the tunes
Don't need to, everything is built into the amp link on the Alpine head unit, I have switchable saved settings depending on the type of music I'm listening to. Took a few weeks of tinkering to find the slope points and Hz levels for each music type, but now I just push a setting tab and donezo.
Don't need to, everything is built into the amp link on the Alpine head unit, I have switchable saved settings depending on the type of music I'm listening to. Took a few weeks of tinkering to find the slope points and Hz levels for each music type, but now I just push a setting tab and donezo.
I have a Kenwood old school KGC 7043 EQ for presetting slopes but I also like the analog controls right there to adjust the sub mostly but sometimes the mids and highs too.
Last edited by StrangelovesM6Vert; Dec 9, 2017 at 02:51 PM.
I have a Kenwood old school KGC 7043 EQ for presetting slopes but I also like the analog controls right there to adjust the sub mostly but sometimes the mids and highs too.
Had it all, used it all, so much easier to use the built in amp link and presets, takes seconds to switch.
Had it all, used it all, so much easier to use the built in amp link and presets, takes seconds to switch.
If you're happy with your setup that's all that matters
Alpine doesn't have Garmin which I wanted and my amps are old school Rockfords.
My setup also takes seconds to switch presets and I can also adjust the volumes of the amps without needing to look at controls as well.
If you're happy with your setup that's all that matters
Alpine doesn't have Garmin which I wanted and my amps are old school Rockfords.
My setup also takes seconds to switch presets and I can also adjust the volumes of the amps without needing to look at controls as well.
It doesn't have Garmin but it does have live traffic sampling, pings off other GPS units. Its usually within a few minutes of waze. They both work, but I don't want tbe unnecessary clutter in the interior, I still have one of those 4 channels, and a few even older RF amps and a few old school Alpine amps but none of them fit under the passenger seat and I'd have to run two instead of the 5 Channel. The new digital series stuff blows the old stuff away, so much so I'm thinking of pulling it out of my truck and going with the new stuff in there too.
It doesn't have Garmin but it does have live traffic sampling, pings off other GPS units. Its usually within a few minutes of waze. They both work, but I don't want tbe unnecessary clutter in the interior, I still have one of those 4 channels, and a few even older RF amps and a few old school Alpine amps but none of them fit under the passenger seat and I'd have to run two instead of the 5 Channel. The new digital series stuff blows the old stuff away, so much so I'm thinking of pulling it out of my truck and going with the new stuff in there too.
I built my stereo in 2013 and after putting on 24k mikes in 4 years driving the Vette I only put 2k miles on it this year.
I don't drive the C5 as much as I used to since I got my 2014 SRT Hemi G Cherokee
It has an 8.4" UConnect system I mated to another set of old school amps using an LC2i interface.
The tone controls are pretty basic.
No slopes and no EQ curves to set.
Just Hi/Mid/Low levels.
Last edited by StrangelovesM6Vert; Dec 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM.
