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<blockquote data-quote="Plutoman" data-source="post: 6216549" data-attributes="member: 601528"><p>Dual, Boss, Sony, avoid them. Big no no's. The receiver is the biggest difference in how everything sounds. It's a HUGE difference. Not to mention, they are prone to breaking, especially the motorized crap from them.</p><p></p><p>For the head unit (receiver), go with a Pioneer, a Kenwood, or an Alpine. I prefer the Alpine's myself, but that's just user preference, those are the better brands to go with.</p><p></p><p>Speakers, my recommendation is to the Image Dynamics, from woofersetc.com, they are a great set of component speakers that can be had for around $180, and will blow away any stock setup, or most other speakers around that price. A 100 watts RMS to them will make them sing. There's quite a few options for amplifiers to power those, just a clean two channel, or a four channel that can be bridged, will work great.</p><p></p><p>Speakers.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6201/CTX65CS--Image-Dynamics-65" target="_blank">http://www.woofersetc.com/p6201/CTX65CS--Image-Dynamics-65</a>"-Component-Speaker-System.htm</p><p></p><p>Possible amplifier recommendations - I ranked them down in order of the quality, though the last two are probably pretty close. The quality of it is essentially how clean the power will be, and how good the sound will be coming out of the amplifier. It won't sound horrible with a lower grade amp, but it will definitely sound better with a good one. But, comes with a price tag.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6274/TXi4008-Hifonics-400Watt-A-BClass-2Channel-Amplifier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.woofersetc.com/p6274/TXi4008-Hifonics-400Watt-A-BClass-2Channel-Amplifier.htm</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/p3956/ZX2004--Kicker-4-Ch-200-Watt-ZX-Series-Amplifier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.woofersetc.com/p3956/ZX2004--Kicker-4-Ch-200-Watt-ZX-Series-Amplifier.htm</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6856/FD-2200--ARC-Audio-2-Channel-370-Watt-Amplifier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.woofersetc.com/p6856/FD-2200--ARC-Audio-2-Channel-370-Watt-Amplifier.htm</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/p181/D3-4002--Diamond-Audio-2-Ch-400-Watt-Amplifier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.woofersetc.com/p181/D3-4002--Diamond-Audio-2-Ch-400-Watt-Amplifier.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Assuming a HU for $150, amp for $100-200, speakers for $200, that puts you at $500. And trust me when I say that it will be much better than another to do with boss.</p><p></p><p>If you add in wiring, it'll be another $30-50, depending on the wiring. If you plan for a sub later it would benefit to get the wiring for it now.</p><p></p><p>If your budget is $1000, then you can go on and get a decent sub system for another $300-400, too. As said earlier, an Alpine Type R is a good starter, two of them off a hifonics 1210 will be pretty nice. That will be loud, but there's other options depending on how good of a sound you want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plutoman, post: 6216549, member: 601528"] Dual, Boss, Sony, avoid them. Big no no's. The receiver is the biggest difference in how everything sounds. It's a HUGE difference. Not to mention, they are prone to breaking, especially the motorized crap from them. For the head unit (receiver), go with a Pioneer, a Kenwood, or an Alpine. I prefer the Alpine's myself, but that's just user preference, those are the better brands to go with. Speakers, my recommendation is to the Image Dynamics, from woofersetc.com, they are a great set of component speakers that can be had for around $180, and will blow away any stock setup, or most other speakers around that price. A 100 watts RMS to them will make them sing. There's quite a few options for amplifiers to power those, just a clean two channel, or a four channel that can be bridged, will work great. Speakers. [URL="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6201/CTX65CS--Image-Dynamics-65"]http://www.woofersetc.com/p6201/CTX65CS--Image-Dynamics-65[/URL]"-Component-Speaker-System.htm Possible amplifier recommendations - I ranked them down in order of the quality, though the last two are probably pretty close. The quality of it is essentially how clean the power will be, and how good the sound will be coming out of the amplifier. It won't sound horrible with a lower grade amp, but it will definitely sound better with a good one. But, comes with a price tag. [URL="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6274/TXi4008-Hifonics-400Watt-A-BClass-2Channel-Amplifier.htm"]http://www.woofersetc.com/p6274/TXi4008-Hifonics-400Watt-A-BClass-2Channel-Amplifier.htm[/URL] [URL="http://www.woofersetc.com/p3956/ZX2004--Kicker-4-Ch-200-Watt-ZX-Series-Amplifier.htm"]http://www.woofersetc.com/p3956/ZX2004--Kicker-4-Ch-200-Watt-ZX-Series-Amplifier.htm[/URL] [URL="http://www.woofersetc.com/p6856/FD-2200--ARC-Audio-2-Channel-370-Watt-Amplifier.htm"]http://www.woofersetc.com/p6856/FD-2200--ARC-Audio-2-Channel-370-Watt-Amplifier.htm[/URL] [URL="http://www.woofersetc.com/p181/D3-4002--Diamond-Audio-2-Ch-400-Watt-Amplifier.htm"]http://www.woofersetc.com/p181/D3-4002--Diamond-Audio-2-Ch-400-Watt-Amplifier.htm[/URL] Assuming a HU for $150, amp for $100-200, speakers for $200, that puts you at $500. And trust me when I say that it will be much better than another to do with boss. If you add in wiring, it'll be another $30-50, depending on the wiring. If you plan for a sub later it would benefit to get the wiring for it now. If your budget is $1000, then you can go on and get a decent sub system for another $300-400, too. As said earlier, an Alpine Type R is a good starter, two of them off a hifonics 1210 will be pretty nice. That will be loud, but there's other options depending on how good of a sound you want. [/QUOTE]
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