well the first problem I will point out is that bose likes to use odd speakers such as 1 ohm or 16 ohm speakers, which will either kill, or not subject sound from your HU.
secondly, the amplifiers would have to be turned on, I would not suggest doing this as it will most likely sound bad, you will be taking a high level signal and amplifying it, never a good combo.
You have three options as I see it.
1. keep your factory stuff and add to it as you see fit with the alpine commander piece found here. You could probably sell the IVA-D300 for enough to get that plus a few LCD's.
However -
Rewiring at the amp is relatively simple, depending on what all the speakers are and how you want to do it. I am guessing there are 4 component sets and sub to make the 9 speakers. So you would need to get some 4.7uf caps or so and wire the speakers in parallel with the caps on the positive line of the tweeters (depending on the impedence of the speakers). I wouldn't do this, in my experience, the bose speakers only sound good off of the bose amp.
2. keep your factory stuff and do nothing - a viable solution but boring.
3. replace everything. Pull the entire bose system out and go aftermarket. Depends on your budget, but you have the source unit and some amps, so just get some speakers and cabling to rewire the entire audio system. Probably the best way to do it, but could get pricey depending on how far you want to go. I would also take this chance to run all new speaker wire to each speaker location.
So it all depends on what you are looking to get out of having a system?
secondly, the amplifiers would have to be turned on, I would not suggest doing this as it will most likely sound bad, you will be taking a high level signal and amplifying it, never a good combo.
You have three options as I see it.
1. keep your factory stuff and add to it as you see fit with the alpine commander piece found here. You could probably sell the IVA-D300 for enough to get that plus a few LCD's.
However -
Rewiring at the amp is relatively simple, depending on what all the speakers are and how you want to do it. I am guessing there are 4 component sets and sub to make the 9 speakers. So you would need to get some 4.7uf caps or so and wire the speakers in parallel with the caps on the positive line of the tweeters (depending on the impedence of the speakers). I wouldn't do this, in my experience, the bose speakers only sound good off of the bose amp.
2. keep your factory stuff and do nothing - a viable solution but boring.
3. replace everything. Pull the entire bose system out and go aftermarket. Depends on your budget, but you have the source unit and some amps, so just get some speakers and cabling to rewire the entire audio system. Probably the best way to do it, but could get pricey depending on how far you want to go. I would also take this chance to run all new speaker wire to each speaker location.
So it all depends on what you are looking to get out of having a system?
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- #3
What the heck does this alpine commander do? It looks like an integration device how would this help me out? If I sell the Iva d300 I have no radio
you use the stock head unit, the commander unit allows you to add anything you want aftermarket - more monitors, amps, speakers, signal processing, etc.
You then have the command unit that you mount somewhere accesible and control what source is available. So if you set the command unit to factory radio - all function of the factory radio come to life - xm radio, hd radio, cd, navigation, and anything else that is factory. Say you don't have factory nav, but want it. You add the alpine unit in question, then change the source on the alpine unit to NAV. Now your navigation is utilizing your factory system (unsure if you have an indash LCD screen or not)(if you didn't, this would let you add one, if you do, this will utilize and output all sources to it). Say you want the capability to watch a DVD in dash on your factory stuff, this would allow you to, all the while not touching the factory bose system.
On the flip, if you were unhappy with the stage, you could add to it, or remove factory components from it.
It allows you to do pretty much anything you want while utilizing factory equipment.
You then have the command unit that you mount somewhere accesible and control what source is available. So if you set the command unit to factory radio - all function of the factory radio come to life - xm radio, hd radio, cd, navigation, and anything else that is factory. Say you don't have factory nav, but want it. You add the alpine unit in question, then change the source on the alpine unit to NAV. Now your navigation is utilizing your factory system (unsure if you have an indash LCD screen or not)(if you didn't, this would let you add one, if you do, this will utilize and output all sources to it). Say you want the capability to watch a DVD in dash on your factory stuff, this would allow you to, all the while not touching the factory bose system.
On the flip, if you were unhappy with the stage, you could add to it, or remove factory components from it.
It allows you to do pretty much anything you want while utilizing factory equipment.
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- #5
how does this connect to the bost radio because when i used the, wiring harness thats when the alpine had no sound so wouldnt the same problem happen when connecting this device? does this have a fm tuner built in
no.
The speaker outputs go through the commander and then the commander outputs back to the car.
So effectively you would cut the output side of the factory unit (wires coming out of unit) and connect them to the commander input, then connect the car side (wires going away from factory head unit) to the output side of the commander box. The factory system is going to be a front / rear configuration, so this is not a problem, plus you are still using the factory amps and they will turn on and function as normal since the stock unit is still controlling it.
The speaker outputs go through the commander and then the commander outputs back to the car.
So effectively you would cut the output side of the factory unit (wires coming out of unit) and connect them to the commander input, then connect the car side (wires going away from factory head unit) to the output side of the commander box. The factory system is going to be a front / rear configuration, so this is not a problem, plus you are still using the factory amps and they will turn on and function as normal since the stock unit is still controlling it.
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