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Message: <blockquote data-quote="i2ain2thunder" data-source="post: 7363309" data-attributes="member: 631331"><p>hrm well theres a few different routes you can choose.  Like I said before a sub really makes music sound better.  However you can get good midbass response from 6.5-8inch speakers if you choose the right ones.  You don't need an amplifier, aftermarkets headunits provide a little bit of power, you can get some that provide almost decent power but in order for the speakers to sound the best you really should have an amplifier.  If you get an amplifier you will need a wiring kit, amplifiers require a power wire ran from the battery, a remote wire ran from the head unit(or anywhere you can get power upon ignition), patch cables or RCAs ran from the head unit, if you do not have an aftermarket head unit that has outputs you can get rca outputs off a stock deck using a line out converter, this isn't as good of quality as an aftermarket head unit with rca outputs would be.  and you will need a ground wire ran from the amp to anywhere on the vehicle that is a good ground location to the body preferably as close to the amp as possible.  There is always a way to make room for a subwoofer, but if you don't want one, I would improve the speakers to components(seperate mids and tweeters) these use a crossover network which separates the high frequencies and sends them to your tweeters and the lower frequencies and sends them to your speaker.  This makes the sound a little bit nicer.  Amplifiers have speaker outputs in the form of channels mono=1 channel, 2channel, 4channel, 5 and even 6 channel amps.  each channel supplies a certain amount of power from the amp at a given resistance.  IE a amp that is a 2 channel could produce say 170watts rms per channel at 4 ohms.  This same amp could produce 250watts rms per channel at 2 ohms, or depending on the amp it may be bridgable meaning you can wire it so that its only useing one channel with the combined power of both channels than it might do 500watts bridged at 4 ohms and 1000watts bridged at 2ohms.  Speakers and subwoofers have different Impedances, for example you can have a sub that is a dual voice coil 2ohms per voice coil.  You could wire that sub to be at 4 ohms bridged on the amp at 500 watts, or you could wire 2 subs together at 2ohms bridged on the amp for 1000watts.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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