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[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Today was a double header, went to Brooklyn NY for two install in one day.

Infinity

Stock location for mic

New Mic

Looks stock

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Wires Wires

Everything working

More on the way

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Lets wire it up

Wiring for rear camera.

Tape to protect the interior from scratches.

New speakers soldered

New wires ran

Crossovers mounted

Mounting area for kenwood camera.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Small gap for camera wire.

Extra wire from camera all cleaned up.

Pink wire, blue wire "on other layer" and black wire for metra controls.

NO GAP with dash kit.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Customer feedback

"Install went pretty well and smoothly for the most part. Matt did a great and thorough job on my 370Z. You don't get this type of personal service when you go to the "professional" shops.

About Matt (BigAudioFanat).

Through this entire process Matt has given me outstanding advice. He has been dead on 100% of the time. He has shared his personal opinions on many things, but ultimately allowed me to make all the decisions. Never once did he try to push his personal preference on me. He was extremely flexible, patient, professional and was always available to answer my (quite literally) 5,000 random questions. He also helped me find the cheapest prices possible!

I went to 4 different "professional" installers and by going through Matt I literally saved over $1000. Furthermore he was much more willing to do the things I wanted! One install shop really tried pushing me to buy a rear view camera that I adamantly did NOT want (a boyo license plate camera) and charge me $250 for it!!! He was relentless telling me the type of camera i wanted was "lame" (Pioneer NDBC4). In addition to that he tried to charge me $1200 for the Pioneer avic-x920bt claiming I was getting a $200 discount since the MSRP is $1400. Now I mean.. come on!!! Best Buy sells the headunit for $1000!!! I ended up getting the headunit for less than half of what this clown tried to charge me!

About the Install...

We were able to install the bluetooth microphone up inside the dome light module. If you notice.. there are small holes for the sound to travel through and once you open it up there is plenty of space in there. The microphone is completely invisible and after testing it works perfectly! Major Kudos to Matt for making it work!

A few months ago some guy was arguing with Matt saying that you do not need the dash kit when installing the Pioneer x920bt. The guy repeatedly said that you DONT need the Metra Dash Kit, that the gap around the edge was not noticeable. Well he could not be more wrong. Without the dash kit there is a small but VERY annoying gap. The Pioneer x920bt has the ridge around the front and is completely exposed without the dash kit. Also there is a gap across the top of the headunit that is wide enough to stick 2 business cards into so to the person who adamantly said you dont need the dash kit... you were wrong... nothing personal... "just sayin.."

The Axxess ASWC works great! The unit did not auto detect with the headunit and car but Matt was able to program it in less than 20 min. I was very concerned about this part of the install because there have been a number of people who have had difficulty setting this unit up.

install pics coming soon."

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Infinit owner wanted to remove the bose system so I went back for some upgrades.

Run new wires

New tweeters

All back together

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Did a Mazda 6 today, was great the metra was so fast it was setup in about 10 seconds with auto program amazing speed. Owner was very happy with everything dont and sound as well.

Stock

Ran new speaker wires

Stock vs aftermarket, aftermarket wins every time

New speakers installed used dynamat to help seal them.

Back to looking normal

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Rear speakers

Two wires for metra steering wheel controls

New unit installed test fit

New amps

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Bump a few more coming up.

 

[fightonfire59]

Matt (bigaudiofanatic) recently did a big install in my Mazda 6 and I couldn't be happier with the results. I first pm'd Matt for advice on what to get and he had plenty of good suggestions and answered every question I had. Seeing all of the positive feedback he has for his installs I decided to go to him for the install as well. I got a kenwood head unit with bluetooth and a metra steering wheel adapter, polk db 6.5 components for the front, polk db 5x7 components for the rear, a cadence amp for the speakers, a bazooka tube sub, a profile amp for the sub. Matt knocked all of this out in a single day, but by no means did he rush. He ran new wires, modified the stock tweeter mountings so the new tweeters would fit, used dynamat to fill in the gaps in the speaker mountings, soldered ever wire and used heat shrink...the list of little extra touches goes on. He treats your car like its his own, and he really takes his time and does clean work. I bombarded him with questions during the install and he happily answered all of them. He even taught me how to solder. If you want a thorough, clean, professional install for an incredibly reasonable price take all of your questions and your car to Matt. You will NOT be disappointed.

 

[dafobbishon3 10+ year member]

I wish you lived in Texas, or i was still in Ct. I would get you to do ALL my installs. :] great guy here!

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Thanks, there are a few z owners out in TX that want me to do installs. If you wanted to setup a ground install for a few people and it is worth my travel I would come over.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

I finally got my dad to allow me to put new speakers in his element. He did not want a new head unit, "as of yet" but he did allow me to go ahead with new speakers. Tomorrow will probably do the fronts and install the polk mm components. This element does have the higher output stereo which means the new speakers can get more power. Before you ask you can not do the same with your bose system.

Let's get started.

Old rear speakers

Speaker adapters

My trusty assistant always there to leaned a hand and look over my work. AKA tiger the audio helping cat.

Yep all looks good Matt button it up!

Factory sub

Decided to keep the factory plugs in place in case he wanted to go back which I do not see happening.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Stock sub was a dual voice coil 4 ohm I went with a single voice coil kicker 4 ohm.

More tomorrow.

 

[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

Why a 4 ohm sub