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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woody70" data-source="post: 8460779" data-attributes="member: 668401">I stumbled upon the forum in doing some research on subs. I'm dating myself, but it has been the late 80's/early 90's since I was into car audio. Loved it and help build a lot of systems. Of course at first I was into the heavy bass and spl, but I changed over to more neutral and clean sounding systems. I used to run fosgate punch pro's, linear power amps (if I remember correctly their tagline was "ear candy", audio control eq's, mb quart mids/highs, yada, yada. It has been so long since I've even fiddled with car audio I've forgotten a lot of it, lol.Well, now my 16 year old son is just realizing there is a car audio world out there and knows that I used to install systems and such and wants us to put one together in his 2003 Chevy silverado extended cab truck that he got as his first vehicle a few months ago. I figured it would be a good father/son project and I could teach him how to install all the components and shoot for a nice balanced sounding audio system.I figured I would be able to quickly put together a nice little package and I think I did for the most part. We are trying to keep it at the 1200-1500 price range. I was thinking of one (possibly two, but for now one) Sundown Audio SA-8 v3 under the rear seat in the extended cab, Sundown Audio SAE 1000D v2 amp for sub. Looking at some Polk Audio MM6501's for front doors. I don't know if we'll even put anything in the rear doors, kinda depends on how our budget is I guess. Looking at a fosgate or sundown audio four channel amp for the Polk's. I not married to any of this equipment, but it is just what I came up with. Being that my son is 16 I know he is going to crank it up at times, especially around friends and such showing off his system. But hopefully after the newness wears off he won't be going around trying to listen to it at ear splitting levels.So, some of my main concerns are head unit and eq/crossovers. In my day the HU that had built in eq's/crossovers were crap. If you were serious about your car audio, you invested in an Audio Control 1/3 octave eq and became best friends with any shop that had a rta. let me tell you that was a lot of money for someone making minimum wage back then. Now a days, it seems like every HU has DSP, eq and crossover built-in. So are all these items that come standard with today's HU any good? Or do we still need to run something like a Clarion EQS746 and Clarion MCD360. These would fit our budget and allow me to teach him how to properly tune a system. I would love to get Audio Control again, but that would blow our budget. And this is only if it is really even needed? And what would you suggest for a good HU? All he wants to do is stream from his iPhone. I would like something that has at least 4 volt outputs.Sorry to be writing a book, lol, but I guess this kinda sums up what we are trying to do. Suggestions?Thanks</blockquote>

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