Components on Factory HU?

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Seems like a noobish Q, but I've NEVER left a factory radio in when installing a system. Well the wifey just got a 2010 Hyundai Accent, lame I know, but it was cheap and what she wanted lol. Well it came with a 6 speaker system, components up front and 5x7's in back.

Too broke right now to get a nice double din HU and amp, and it already has XM radio installed, so I wanted to put some decent comps up front to run off the factory HU. So how would I wire the components? Just take the front outputs and put it in the xover? What if there are separate outputs for the mids and tweets?

Also any suggestions for some decent cheap 6.5 comps to be ran off HU?

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[Bob Saget]

Not worth the time, money, or hassle. If it isn't good enough now save up until you can afford what you really want.

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

I would just play the h*** out of the stockers tell you can save up abit for a good deck or amp...

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Figured I'd get that reaponse. Alright, should I use speaker level inputs to an amp or still wait to get a hu?

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

Either way I think would be ok... You can do new comps if you realy want to just dont think you will hear much different if you dont have the power to them

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Anyone else have more input on using speaker level inputs? I've never done it, how does it affect SQ and setting the gains?

Also if I'm going to add a sub, should I use the preamp on a sub amp to connect to an amp for comps up front to improve SQ (instead of using a 4 channel for both) or will it not make a difference?

 

[daboyfrumdabx 10+ year member]

Anyone else have more input on using speaker level inputs? I've never done it, how does it affect SQ and setting the gains?Also if I'm going to add a sub, should I use the preamp on a sub amp to connect to an amp for comps up front to improve SQ (instead of using a 4 channel for both) or will it not make a difference?

I'd rather use a line output converter to give you some rca's to work with rather than using speaker level inputs.

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

I'd rather use a line output converter to give you some rca's to work with rather than using speaker level inputs.

Why is that? If an amp has the inputs, isn't it pretty much the same thing?

 

[daboyfrumdabx 10+ year member]

Why is that? If an amp has the inputs, isn't it pretty much the same thing?

Yes, if the amp has the input, it should all be the same, but for some reason I've never had good results using high level inputs. It's always worked, but the sound wasn't the same. Maybe it was in my head, but every time I've used high levels, I've ended up swapping to a LOC.

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Yes, if the amp has the input, it should all be the same, but for some reason I've never had good results using high level inputs. It's always worked, but the sound wasn't the same. Maybe it was in my head, but every time I've used high levels, I've ended up swapping to a LOC.

Thanks for the insight, guess I'll have to just give it a shot.

 

[daboyfrumdabx 10+ year member]

Thanks for the insight, guess I'll have to just give it a shot.

Worse comes to worse, it's not like it's much more to work to switch it afterward so you might as well save a few bucks for now. A lot of my experience with high level inputs was on pretty mediocre equipment in local installs, I've never done it in one of my own rides.

 

[Slayerx 10+ year member]

Worse comes to worse, it's not like it's much more to work to switch it afterward so you might as well save a few bucks for now.

My thoughts exactly.

Already gonna need to spend some extra dough on sound dampening, the doors are horrible.