Hooking up CDT components with a crappy pep boys amp?

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I sold my car today, but don't want to give the guy my nine.2 amp and then have to buy a new one for my new car. If i just go to pep boys and get a cheapo 2 channel amp, would that suffice for the components? Cheapo as in like 75 bucks or less

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[BASSMEKANIK 10+ year member]

how could you... that is a discrace... your cdt's must hate you.

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[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

how could you... that is a discrace... your cdt's must hate you.

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i don't really care, there are not my CDT's anymore. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif My only concern is that they just work and sound at least like stock. I am running them off of 100 watts rms right now, if i bought a crappy 40 watt x 2 jensen amp or anything, would that ruin them or would it sound alright?

 

[pickup1 5,000+ posts]

guy the cheapo for the old car and keep the ed amp.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

guy the cheapo for the old car and keep the ed amp.

yea that was the plan, i was just making sure that running the speakers on like 40 watts instead of 100 would't ruin them or sound like total garbage. I just need it to sound like stock basically, or better, but if it sounds like trash and its not listenable, thats not good either.

 

[pimpedout97x]

run them off the HU...........

or put the stockers back in...........

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

run them off the HU...........
or put the stockers back in...........

don't have the stockers anymore, and it seems like too much trouble to re-wire the speakers into the head unit. Plus im not sure if my head unit even has a pre-amp in it (Eclipse 5444)

 

[LinxuS 10+ year member]

Yeah they will probably sound alright. Won't sound anything like your eD amp.

Friend did the same thing with a Virtual reality amp. $20 from Fry's with his friends discount. Didn't sound too bad for the money TBH.

But he ran it on fairly cheap speakers. Type-S and Infinity Ref line.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

i just got back from selling the car, and the guy's friends took it upon themselves to just start unhooking the amps (both of them) without me saying anything, so i just said thanks and took them. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif So now i have the Nine 2 and the nine.1 to stick right in my new car. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif If the guy calls me and asks why the speakers don't work (he is making it into a racecar so he might not even care) ill just buy a cheap pep boys amp and drop it off. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[explorer2 10+ year member]

This is why I always keep a set of cheap stockers on hand. My current car for sale system includes a jensen deck, and circa 1993 ford premium speakers and amp.