planning a system, woudl like some input..

[gloval]

howdy fellas. i'm planning a little project for my civic hatchback and i'm looking for some input or recommendations.

first off, i am on a budget. i want a reasonably nice sounding system (and by that i mean a good step above stock), but i'm in a pretty high car-theft rate area, so i don't want to hate myself for dropping hundreds or thousands into the system...

my plan -

headunit: STOCK haha. i don't want anyone seeing a cd player. at. all.

cd player: in via universal fm modulator - so i can hook up my netmd walkman and play mp3s (since my primary source of tunes will be a lossy format, i'm not 100% concerned about best sq)

amp: up in the air on this one. i want a 4 channel amp that pushes at least 50 watts to each channel, and it needs speaker level inputs.

speakers: i have a set of crystal 6.5" components in front from which the tweeters were stolen. i plan on moving these to the back and putting them on a custom built rear deck/hatch cover (hopfully it'll look similar to stock). and i plan on getting some 2-way $100 bestbuy specials for the front (infiniti kappa or some sort of mid-grade pioneer, i think).

the rear deck speakers will be used for my bass, exclusively, and i was wondering what would produce the best bass out of 6.5" woofers; should i mount them open-air style, or would they be better in small sealed enclosures suspended from the underside of the rear deck (i'm not too bad with building speaker boxes)?

so... any recommendations or input on this plan?

thanks

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[desi_daru 10+ year member]

i have a mtx thunder 404 (not saying its the best and only 1 out there) just saying ive had lots of experience with this and it rocks at 50x4 (yes it has them high level inputs so u dont needa use rcas..)

also i would make that lil box for the rears, and ur not gonna get 2 much bass outta 6.5woofer try a 10" nothin special like a clarion or something small like that will do the trick

also look into a cd player and an alarm

 

[gloval]

i do have a 10" sub sitting around my house... so that's an option down the line if i wanted to buy an amp for it.

but i do want to stay away from the cd player; at least in the stock position, i guess there's a din-slot lower on the console, easily hidden, but i'm gonna try the fm-modulator action on the minidisc mp3 player for a while.