Need High Power Head Unit Suggestions

[nasakid]

I'm planning to power my factory speakers with the head unit and bypass the factory amp (Dodge Durango). My friend has recommended Alpine head units for this purpose. Any other brands I should consider with very clean high power outputs? Are Eclipse decks as good as Alpine?

Thanks.

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

may i ask why?

just get a small external amp and be done with it...

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

paisonic has 60Wrms x 4. but you still need to hook up seperate power. my bottom of the line blaupunkt is 23Wrms x4 and it pumps out the bass.

 

[nasakid]

Less wiring to run behind panels for one. I'll just bypass the factory amp, cut the output wires, and splice to the input wires coming from the deck. Seems like a whole lot less work than running speaker wires and RCA's from and running power and remote to the amp.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

true, but you're only talking about maybe 10-15 watts RMS, those numbers usually quoted on head units are optimistic peak numbers, if that.

and a lot of those so called "high power" head units need an external power wire run to them anyway...so it isn't that much of a step from there to installing a small amp.