THE CAR AUDIO THREAD..Q&A!

[REdRUM]

??????? lil help please

Hit me up; I got you!

 

[Jonah]

Jonah......Best Buy can't tell you anything....they don't really do any custom work, I know, I used to be a supervisor at store 135 in Pleasant Hill, Ca.

Your best bet is going to be to take everything you have to a custom install shop with some creds. A nice fiberglass set up would look awesome in a ride like that, but you would need to find someone who knows what there doing with it.

One thing I can tell you is your going to need wire and alot of it. I would suggest 2 gauge from your Batt to your caps, 4 gauge from your caps to your amps and run no less than 8 gauge from your monoblocks to your subs.

I would also advise getting a seperate digital crossover for your subs, your amps may come equipped with them, but trust me they never work as good as the seperate ones, never. You should get a digital voltage reader as well, unless your caps come with them on top, well even still with that equipment I'd get a seperate one as well to monitor the voltage just before it reaches the amps.

I would also suggest alot of Liquid Poly Foam, or Dynamat lining. I know alot of people think that it doesn't do anything, but your vehicles ability to hold SPL ( sound pressure level ) is soley based on the density of the materials in your car and what its made of. When your vehicle vibrates or shakes pressure is lost by the movement of the metals. Harding up the surfaces will retain a much greater pressure and in turn generate a louder truer sound.

Thanks. Another question is the fact that I have Bose. So Im pretty sure they would have to rewire the whole car, right? Also. with the Deck, Will my in dash nav still work with it?

 

[SecondzAway]

Jonah....might as well get ready to break bread....lol...Most of the Bose systems are factory amped and "multiplexed".......There ways of getting around having to gut everything, but you'll lose sound quality if you don't take all the facotry equipment out.

As far as your nav is concerned...its tricky......yes it can be wired into your facotry stereo...provided your Bose deck has the right hookups, however its going to cost you a grip to get that done. Most of the time the facotry decks don't come with the propper aux inputs and outputs to run something like that which means your going to have to find someone who knows how to read wiring schematics, and will take the risk of doin you up without fucking everything up.....its risky

Best bet is to just toss the Bose deck and use one of your own, or just buy one.....besides it would probably be cheaper to just be a deck outright than to have someone try to wire all that up together....less risky as well

 

[DoucheBagFresh]

are clarions decent speakers? my boys got sum 6x9's he wants to sell me but im tryna check before chasin out

 

[DoucheBagFresh]

thanks to all the fags who aint answer my one question,anyways i copped sum clarion 6x9's and 6 1/2's, 2 jl w3 12's an a visonik 200x2 amp and this shit sounds really fuckin good im satisfied only thing i may change down the line is coppin an alpine in dash dvd instead of just my reg. alpine deck

 

[|GOD|||ZILLA|]

how much you get the jl's for... i might cop a pair for my 600.1.. i blew one of my subs and i hooked the other to my garage stereo.

 

[DoucheBagFresh]

a 600 as in benz?

i got em for 390 with a the box

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

thanks to all the fags who aint answer my one question,anyways i copped sum clarion 6x9's and 6 1/2's, 2 jl w3 12's an a visonik 200x2 amp and this shit sounds really fuckin good im satisfied only thing i may change down the line is coppin an alpine in dash dvd instead of just my reg. alpine deck

sounds like a pretty good setup cept for the amp... is that shit 800w or 400 wats... it would probably sound alot better with a better amp i could be wrong tho...

u got the subs in a sealed box?

 

[x-loc]

mayne i justbought a system for my chevy silverado......a 2 door

i bought

2 kicker 10s
a 2000 watt performance technique amp
a 600 watt almani amp to run my highs
2 almani door speakers
and a kenwood deck
now i know these kickers shold sound good.........tey not hitting like they should........
any sujesstions......and on the amp i dont understand all the shit on there...like the hpf,lpf,level and all that...someone explain

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

u got some kicker comps? u might check the wiring, maybe changs the ohms n all dat shit... or maybe u just have to break em in... are they brand new?

 

[x-loc]

yea got them last week.....

 

[x-loc]

wut are some good twetters

 

[Hyfeeboy]

i never understood how to adjust my amp , i dont wanna blow these subs out this time. where should all the dials be? i got power turned up like 3/4 , i got x-over turned up all the way and bass boost turned up

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

u should probably turn ur bass boost down

 

[SecondzAway]

mayne i justbought a system for my chevy silverado......a 2 door

i bought
a 2000 watt performance technique amp
a 600 watt almani amp to run my highs
......and on the amp i dont understand all the shit on there...like the hpf,lpf,level and all that...someone explain

X-loc...if you don't mind me asking, how much were your amps and where did you cop them at?

 

[x-loc]

at this place in anaheim...the 2000 watt was 200
and the 600 was like 50 dollars

 

[SecondzAway]

Well homie....I ain't tryin to clown, but theres your problem. In car audio especially, you get what you pay for. A general rule of thumb for amps is $1 for every watt to half a watt indicates a decent amp.....Going above that ratio the quality usually goes up and going below that...well you get the idea.

The reason you got those amps so cheap is because the "wattage" they are reffereing to is the amount of "heat" your amp bleeds. Heat is a form of energy that is converted to watts. So they didn't really lie to you as much as they just took your money and didn't say shyt.

In all reality your kicker subs may be seeing like a 100-150 watts of clean power...if that. This buisness is really hard on people who aren't up on game....ya know. the age old saying works well in situations like this....if it sounds to good to be true, it is.

 

[DAT NIGGA TAZZ]

yea thats wut i thought... get a better amp... i coulda sold you a kicker 600x1 amp if it were a lil while ago... lol o well


...imo amps are the one thing where u cant cheat... u gotta get a pretty good one and a good brand, try getting at least a kenwood or pioneer or somethin like that if u aint got 2 much money... i dunno about them xplod and bazooka they aaaaite...

 

[xraidedloc831]

Secondz I got a question for ya. My mom has a MTX 2 channel amp in her car aka the (M)ade (T)oo (X)plode amp lol as I call it in her dodge durango lol I knew it was a shit amp but she just wanted something to make all four of her pioneer premier 6x9 door speakers sound a little crisper and a little cleaner and she wasn't willing to buy anything online cause she is old fashioned and had me choose from a selection from circuit city so given the circumstance's id say its doing its job.....anyhow I guess just recently my brother informed me the right hand side crackled and then turned off. Upon listened too it i can tell its not off its just very low. I checked the RCAs and when I switch the red and white rcas around the right side turns back on loud and clear and then the left hand side turns off which leads me to believe its something to do with either the rca cables or a ground touching and grounding out somewhere. Any ideas? Keep in mind one side is constantly loud and the other side is constantly quiet but just enough to hear the words and my brother said it made a crackling sound just before the speaker cut off.

 

[DoucheBagFresh]

Well homie....I ain't tryin to clown, but theres your problem. In car audio especially, you get what you pay for.

thats real shit secondz
..rosetown my visonik amp sounds great i read reviews and shit before buyin and they were all positive and i feel the same,but i took back my 61/2's today and exchanged for eclipses and they sound 2x better my shit is slappin! the clarion 6x9's i got are great too id give me an 8.5/10