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<blockquote data-quote="The Italian Guy" data-source="post: 8697067" data-attributes="member: 678985">I agree about rear speakers. In fact, you don&#039;t want the rears pulling anything away from your sound stage. If you want to try an easy experiment, use the fader in your factory system to send the majority of the audio to the front. Leave just a small amount of sound going to the rears and drive it for a few days. You&#039;ll probably find that your sound is at least as good, if not better than what it produces with a 50/50 fader setting. A solid amplifier is a good place to spend your money. As for your head unit, it&#039;s up to you but if it controls a lot of other components, I would keep it. For example, on my current vehicle the head unit controls my audio, navigation, Bluetooth, maintenance, and other functions. I have a Bose amp under the passengers seat which I will be removing and replacing. In this case, I can get clean, low level audio outputs that I can feed into my replacement amp. Even if your system doesn&#039;t have this type of arrangement, you can get your output from the OEM deck in your dashboard. If it has low level outputs, that&#039;s great! If not, worst case scenario, you can use a LOC and use speaker level outs. Good luck and let us know how things come along!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Italian Guy, post: 8697067, member: 678985"] I agree about rear speakers. In fact, you don't want the rears pulling anything away from your sound stage. If you want to try an easy experiment, use the fader in your factory system to send the majority of the audio to the front. Leave just a small amount of sound going to the rears and drive it for a few days. You'll probably find that your sound is at least as good, if not better than what it produces with a 50/50 fader setting. A solid amplifier is a good place to spend your money. As for your head unit, it's up to you but if it controls a lot of other components, I would keep it. For example, on my current vehicle the head unit controls my audio, navigation, Bluetooth, maintenance, and other functions. I have a Bose amp under the passengers seat which I will be removing and replacing. In this case, I can get clean, low level audio outputs that I can feed into my replacement amp. Even if your system doesn't have this type of arrangement, you can get your output from the OEM deck in your dashboard. If it has low level outputs, that's great! If not, worst case scenario, you can use a LOC and use speaker level outs. Good luck and let us know how things come along! [/QUOTE]

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