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2006 Acura TL - JL Audio Setup vs. Rockford Fosgate Setup
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<blockquote data-quote="iapilchild" data-source="post: 7290404" data-attributes="member: 632168"><p>your right the mark up is really high. but some shops will cut you a great deal depending on how much you buy at once and how persuasive you can be, haggle a little. ok i dont know much about the stock deck but im pretty sure there are integration devices out there. If it were me id go with a single t2 12" which is about $530 at a good shop, i would also purchase a $100 autocraft battery from advanced auto which has a reserve around 180min. and put it in the back beside the single 12 box which i will asuume costs $100. Then id try my best to get a hold of one of the old rockford power elite t10001bd amps for the sub(you can still find these online)which is around $250 used and they will put out a true 1500 watts at 1ohm, worst case scenerio baterry wise at 10volts they will still do around 1000watts till the amp cuts off. anyway then highs wise there are several paths, its really up to what you fancy ive heard a set of cheap pioneer coaxels with a rockford t600-2 per speaker(gains vertually all the way down, if any) and even with the crappy coaxels rated at 75 watts peak they still did rather decent. but ill allocate in this mock equation $200 for highs. and id probably use a t600-2 or a t600-4 for the highs this should be plenty for 4 speakers which runs about $480. ok the sub total is now $1660, wiring if you run double alt gauge from the front battery to the back one and then to the amp is roughly 20 ft but ill say 23 to be safe and at roughly $3 per foot thats $69, and you need both positive and negative so $138 all together. an ANL fuse block behind the front battery which is $12 with a $3 150amp fuse. then two 20ft RCA cables $20 a piece, 20ft remote wire roughly $6, roughly five alt gauge battery ring terminals which is about $15. 10ft 8 guage speaker wire for the subs( a t2 will withstand two 8 gauge stands going into each coil) which is around $10. and of course depending on where you mount your highs amp is related to how much wire you would need but ill assume you put it in the trunk as well. so if you were to need two sets of speaker wire then thats 40ft of 12 guage(16 gauge will work too) which is roughly $30. and last but not least 4 gauge power wire for the highs amp which if next to the back battery is 5 ft positive 5 ft negative so 10ft at $1.50 per foot so $15. i dont think ive forgotten anything but if i have i do apologize it is 3:05 AM here and im a bit tired. so now the total comes to $1,929 for everything and i do insist that this setup will dominate most. I dont think installing is all that hard myself and so for me this would be the total but if you have to get help then the total will go up but the point that i guess im trying to make is that rockford makes some pretty nice stuff that can still be affordable to the average guy. I hope someone gets something out of this. good luck to ya regardless of your path.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iapilchild, post: 7290404, member: 632168"] your right the mark up is really high. but some shops will cut you a great deal depending on how much you buy at once and how persuasive you can be, haggle a little. ok i dont know much about the stock deck but im pretty sure there are integration devices out there. If it were me id go with a single t2 12" which is about $530 at a good shop, i would also purchase a $100 autocraft battery from advanced auto which has a reserve around 180min. and put it in the back beside the single 12 box which i will asuume costs $100. Then id try my best to get a hold of one of the old rockford power elite t10001bd amps for the sub(you can still find these online)which is around $250 used and they will put out a true 1500 watts at 1ohm, worst case scenerio baterry wise at 10volts they will still do around 1000watts till the amp cuts off. anyway then highs wise there are several paths, its really up to what you fancy ive heard a set of cheap pioneer coaxels with a rockford t600-2 per speaker(gains vertually all the way down, if any) and even with the crappy coaxels rated at 75 watts peak they still did rather decent. but ill allocate in this mock equation $200 for highs. and id probably use a t600-2 or a t600-4 for the highs this should be plenty for 4 speakers which runs about $480. ok the sub total is now $1660, wiring if you run double alt gauge from the front battery to the back one and then to the amp is roughly 20 ft but ill say 23 to be safe and at roughly $3 per foot thats $69, and you need both positive and negative so $138 all together. an ANL fuse block behind the front battery which is $12 with a $3 150amp fuse. then two 20ft RCA cables $20 a piece, 20ft remote wire roughly $6, roughly five alt gauge battery ring terminals which is about $15. 10ft 8 guage speaker wire for the subs( a t2 will withstand two 8 gauge stands going into each coil) which is around $10. and of course depending on where you mount your highs amp is related to how much wire you would need but ill assume you put it in the trunk as well. so if you were to need two sets of speaker wire then thats 40ft of 12 guage(16 gauge will work too) which is roughly $30. and last but not least 4 gauge power wire for the highs amp which if next to the back battery is 5 ft positive 5 ft negative so 10ft at $1.50 per foot so $15. i dont think ive forgotten anything but if i have i do apologize it is 3:05 AM here and im a bit tired. so now the total comes to $1,929 for everything and i do insist that this setup will dominate most. I dont think installing is all that hard myself and so for me this would be the total but if you have to get help then the total will go up but the point that i guess im trying to make is that rockford makes some pretty nice stuff that can still be affordable to the average guy. I hope someone gets something out of this. good luck to ya regardless of your path. [/QUOTE]
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