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<blockquote data-quote="Squirreljester" data-source="post: 8397474" data-attributes="member: 666370">I&#039;ve been into car audio for a loooooong time, but I&#039;ve also been out of the game for about 10 years.I have a 2005 Neon SRT-4. My current system is a newish purchased Kenwood KDC-X794 (which replaced my old Kenwood z919 that lasted a good 10+ years and moved through 4 cars), Precision Power PPI PC650 running the stock kicker system (6.5&#039;s in the doors, 1&quot; in the top dash firing up off of the windoshield, 6x9 3-ways in the rear deck), and a Fosgate 500.1 running 1 Cerwin Vega VEGA DVC 12&quot; in a 2cft ported enclosure. Stock electrical (with 2 gauge power/ground running to distro block, 4 gauge running to amps)Everything I have is at least 10 years old (except the head unit), and it&#039;s slowing dying, so I&#039;m looking to completely revamp the whole system.I can dig through the 100&#039;s of &quot;what&#039;s the best xx under xx&quot; threads out there, but I did have a couple other questions:1) Should I stick with Kenwood to keep the system all 1 brand? Is there any benefit to sticking with all 1 brand for the whole system? Or 1 brand for sub, 1 brand for amps, and 1 brand for front/rear stage?2) I&#039;m moving from a single 12 in a ported wood enclosure to a single 10 in a sealed, molded fiberglass, enclosure (and possibly going dual 10&#039;s if the bass is lacking that much). I know people say the 12&quot; is the perfect size, I&#039;ve always had 12&#039;s, but I recently happened on a cheap fiberglass box for my trunk, so I want to try it out. Is there anything I should be aware of when going from a wood to a molded fiberglass enclosure?3) Is there any benefit to running a dual 4 ohm voice coil sub verses a single 2 ohm voice coil sub? I should know the answer to this, but for the life of me I can&#039;t remember.4) Is there anything major that has changed in the last 10 years of car audio I should be aware of, besides the seemingly huge drop in prices of everything?Thanks in advance for any answers.-Erik</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Squirreljester, post: 8397474, member: 666370"] I've been into car audio for a loooooong time, but I've also been out of the game for about 10 years. I have a 2005 Neon SRT-4. My current system is a newish purchased Kenwood KDC-X794 (which replaced my old Kenwood z919 that lasted a good 10+ years and moved through 4 cars), Precision Power PPI PC650 running the stock kicker system (6.5's in the doors, 1" in the top dash firing up off of the windoshield, 6x9 3-ways in the rear deck), and a Fosgate 500.1 running 1 Cerwin Vega VEGA DVC 12" in a 2cft ported enclosure. Stock electrical (with 2 gauge power/ground running to distro block, 4 gauge running to amps) Everything I have is at least 10 years old (except the head unit), and it's slowing dying, so I'm looking to completely revamp the whole system. I can dig through the 100's of "what's the best xx under xx" threads out there, but I did have a couple other questions: 1) Should I stick with Kenwood to keep the system all 1 brand? Is there any benefit to sticking with all 1 brand for the whole system? Or 1 brand for sub, 1 brand for amps, and 1 brand for front/rear stage? 2) I'm moving from a single 12 in a ported wood enclosure to a single 10 in a sealed, molded fiberglass, enclosure (and possibly going dual 10's if the bass is lacking that much). I know people say the 12" is the perfect size, I've always had 12's, but I recently happened on a cheap fiberglass box for my trunk, so I want to try it out. Is there anything I should be aware of when going from a wood to a molded fiberglass enclosure? 3) Is there any benefit to running a dual 4 ohm voice coil sub verses a single 2 ohm voice coil sub? I should know the answer to this, but for the life of me I can't remember. 4) Is there anything major that has changed in the last 10 years of car audio I should be aware of, besides the seemingly huge drop in prices of everything? Thanks in advance for any answers. -Erik [/QUOTE]

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