best sound system i can get

[c.doyle 10+ year member]

what do you mean on the wiring. ill have 2 separate amps, 1 for the sub and 1 for the speakers. what enclosure would you go with? port or sealed? i need as much help as i can get on this.

 

[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

^^^^^
You'll definitely want to separately amplify the speakers, and focus big time on the wiring/electrical and the enclosure for the sub (and speakers if you decide to do pods). Those three things are the most important part of any system imo. I'd rather have stock speakers that are separately amplified, overcompensate on wiring, and have a walmart sub in a well-built enclosure than have nice speakers running off the stock deck, skimp on wiring, and run a nice sub in a pre-fab enclosure. Hope that emphasizes the importance of those three things enough for you to make a wise decision!

You beat my $60 edit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif I am very much with bobb on this... im running my stock speakers through a good amp and I have no desire to upgrade yet. lol never tried a walmart sub but I will never buy a pre-fab box... but sounds like you got that figured out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Wiring includes power and ground wire for the amps, RCAs for the amps, and speaker wire for subs and speakers. I probly left something out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif If you're running that much power i'd be most comfortable running 1/0 gauge, although someone might correct me and say you could get away with 4 gauge for the power and ground wire... not sure if that'd be a great idea. You will run your power wire to a distribution block, from which you will run individual power wires to each amp. Then you can ground each amp individually or ground a distribution block and connect your amps to that. That make sense?

 

[Suicide Bobb 5,000+ posts]

You should be able to get some awesome speakers + amp for that money. I've bought my amps used... so I'm not sure what to recommend but there are gazillions of people on here who do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I've never bought a new amp

 

[Bassin Buick]

i paid a little over 100 used for all of my amps. And you will be hard pressed to buy anything new anywhere near that price range that'll spank even one of the 3. Not boasting about my stuff , just saying you can do WAY better for your money if you keep an eye out here for some nice used amps.

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a 1000 watt sub amp. You can do one for half that price or better. Allot the extra cash to deadener/foam/mlv. Get a good set of components (HAT Se's) in the front with a decent 4 channel amp. You will be very surprised.

 

[c.doyle 10+ year member]

what speakers are good for about 300-400 and ill spend the rest on an amp to go with them

 

[Suicide Bobb 5,000+ posts]

what do you mean on the wiring. ill have 2 separate amps, 1 for the sub and 1 for the speakers. what enclosure would you go with? port or sealed? i need as much help as i can get on this.

Do the Big 3 Mod (search function is your friend) with 1/0ga wiring, run 1/0ga all the way back to the distribution block. Get some RCA interconnects from Monoprice.com.

The enclosure is totally dependent on the sub you choose.

 

[Suicide Bobb 5,000+ posts]

You beat my $60 edit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif I am very much with bobb on this... im running my stock speakers through a good amp and I have no desire to upgrade yet. lol never tried a walmart sub but I will never buy a pre-fab box... but sounds like you got that figured out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Wiring includes power and ground wire for the amps, RCAs for the amps, and speaker wire for subs and speakers. I probly left something out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif If you're running that much power i'd be most comfortable running 1/0 gauge, although someone might correct me and say you could get away with 4 gauge for the power and ground wire. You will run your power wire to a distribution block, from which you will run individual power wires to each amp. Then you can ground each amp individually or ground a distribution block and connect your amps to that. That make sense?

Yep, I'm running stock speakers off a nice amp too...Despite the fact that my speakers are 1-ways (Goddamn Bose!), they don't sound bad at all. They just can't handle much power.

 

[Suicide Bobb 5,000+ posts]

I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a 1000 watt sub amp. You can do one for half that price or better. Allot the extra cash to deadener/foam/mlv. Get a good set of components (HAT Se's) in the front with a decent 4 channel amp. You will be very surprised.

This ^^^^^

I forgot to mention that deadener is important, but not quite as important as the wiring, speaker-amping, and enclosures.

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

what speakers are good for about 300-400 and ill spend the rest on an amp to go with them

FS Hybrid Audio - DIYMA.com

The L4's are gone, but thats the type of deal you are looking for.

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

FS: Arc Audio KS-300.4 - DIYMA.com

There is your component amp.

 

[c.doyle 10+ year member]

heeltoeclutch you confused the hell out of me with what you said. im a little bit new with all of this so im not sure what alot of that means. im going to take it to a shop to install it all im just looking for the best system i can get.

 

[Bassin Buick]

heeltoeclutch you confused the hell out of me with what you said. im a little bit new with all of this so im not sure what alot of that means. im going to take it to a shop to install it all im just looking for the best system i can get.

then you should hit the california section in on this forum and find out which shops to go to and which ones to not go to.

 

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California

 

[c.doyle 10+ year member]

i have got a guy already. i go to goldstar which is in Irvine CA

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

Look at different Component sets, try to find some 80-100watt rms components. Infinity kappas or kappa perfects are nice but expensive, you can find nice completely seperates on partsxpress.com you can pick ur mids tweets and xover seperately. Just look at components and you can always trust brands that have been around for a long time. If you see something you think you might be interested in post it on here and see what other people think. Just find some components around 80+watts rms with a good sensitivity close to 90DB. I'd go as big as you can fit or want to make room for on the mid range drivers for the front like either 5 1/4 or 61/2 or 8 inch mids. Mount the tweeters wherever they sound best probally up in the A pillars of the front and rear windshields or the front and rear decks maybe bouncing them off the windows, play around with them in different positions and see what sounds best for you. Get a 4channel amp that will output around 100watts rms per channel that way you have each channel front left and right and rear left and right. I haven't looked into you're head unit but I'm sure its got preamp outputs for fronts rears and sub if thats the case definitely get a 4channel amp.