dwinters14
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Hey all,
I wanted to get some opinions on my sound system and which way I can go to upgrade it. Firstly here's what I have.
400AMP Alternator
Big 3
Clarion Marine 5 channel amp (Dunno the specs)
Coaxial rear speakers
Coaxial front speakers with tweeters+crossovers in stock tweeter location.
Stetson budget Brazilian 2 channel amp
Rockford 10" sub in closed box.
RCA's + speaker wire and sound deadening.
I like my sound system, it thumps, but it's a bit messy. Firstly because the clarion amp has a bad channel so I added the stetson as a quick fix to get the sound system up and running. It's a 3 channel right now, powering the rears and the sub. The stetson is powering the fronts. I think I've blown the voicecoil on the passenger side door speaker and I've identified a couple of things that I want to change now going forward.
Firstly the truck is old and has a crap ton of rattle and vibration through the door panels even with the deadening I've added so I know it's killing some of the sound quality. I think I will add some sort of rubber/foam isolator to the speaker mounts to mitigate the vibration through the doors.
The other thing is component VS coax. I've really started paying attention to the sound the past few weeks and I like the resonance of the dual tweeters for the higher frequencies. But I'd love some opinions on this, because I'd have to re-wire if I go component, since the current tweeters have a crossover built into their wiring.
The other thing is I'd like harder hitting bass and I don't want to add another 10" in the rear. Mainly because the rear seat eats a ton of the sound, and I feel like it'd kill the sound for anyone in the rear since there's only 5" coax speakers in the rear and all that base. What I want to do is put a shallow mount downfiring 6" or 8" up under the dash. Down firing because the plastic in my dash is cracked and old and the last thing I want is more rattle coming from the front.
Here's where I want to go, but I'd like to know if it's realistic.
A new 4 channel amp to run all the doors. If the voicecoil is broken on the front speakers, a new set of 6.5 coax's with a higher watt rating. Now can I run another 2 channel amp to power the 10" sub and the smaller one in the front and couple the signal with an RCA coupler going into the headunit?
I have a couple of other ideas I'm towing with, mainly cutting out the door mount to 6x9's if the dual sub doesn't work or going component for cleaner mid bass.
I wanted to get some opinions on my sound system and which way I can go to upgrade it. Firstly here's what I have.
400AMP Alternator
Big 3
Clarion Marine 5 channel amp (Dunno the specs)
Coaxial rear speakers
Coaxial front speakers with tweeters+crossovers in stock tweeter location.
Stetson budget Brazilian 2 channel amp
Rockford 10" sub in closed box.
RCA's + speaker wire and sound deadening.
I like my sound system, it thumps, but it's a bit messy. Firstly because the clarion amp has a bad channel so I added the stetson as a quick fix to get the sound system up and running. It's a 3 channel right now, powering the rears and the sub. The stetson is powering the fronts. I think I've blown the voicecoil on the passenger side door speaker and I've identified a couple of things that I want to change now going forward.
Firstly the truck is old and has a crap ton of rattle and vibration through the door panels even with the deadening I've added so I know it's killing some of the sound quality. I think I will add some sort of rubber/foam isolator to the speaker mounts to mitigate the vibration through the doors.
The other thing is component VS coax. I've really started paying attention to the sound the past few weeks and I like the resonance of the dual tweeters for the higher frequencies. But I'd love some opinions on this, because I'd have to re-wire if I go component, since the current tweeters have a crossover built into their wiring.
The other thing is I'd like harder hitting bass and I don't want to add another 10" in the rear. Mainly because the rear seat eats a ton of the sound, and I feel like it'd kill the sound for anyone in the rear since there's only 5" coax speakers in the rear and all that base. What I want to do is put a shallow mount downfiring 6" or 8" up under the dash. Down firing because the plastic in my dash is cracked and old and the last thing I want is more rattle coming from the front.
Here's where I want to go, but I'd like to know if it's realistic.
A new 4 channel amp to run all the doors. If the voicecoil is broken on the front speakers, a new set of 6.5 coax's with a higher watt rating. Now can I run another 2 channel amp to power the 10" sub and the smaller one in the front and couple the signal with an RCA coupler going into the headunit?
I have a couple of other ideas I'm towing with, mainly cutting out the door mount to 6x9's if the dual sub doesn't work or going component for cleaner mid bass.
