Sound Quality by 2010

[Evanish 10+ year member]

To start off, the Vehicle in discussion is a 1999 Dodge Dakota R/T single cab Truck. This truck means a lot to me and is a pretty rare vehicle with only 299 RCs made in 99 in Intense Blue. The truck is currently covered up in the garage and will be getting a fresh coat of paint in June before I take it around to shows. I bought the truck about two years ago and it came completely stock besides a few after markets parts. I did put a small system in it last summer that is shown below. My goal now is to re-do the audio and get it to a sound quality level. The Whole interior will be re-done when the Viper Seats arrive. My plan is do do the sub and mid base enclosure out of fiberglass. The Midbase Subs will be located vertically between the seats above the custom center console.

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Current Basic set-up:

The only problem is that I'm limited to space. I do plan to Dynomat the whole truck as well. All of the stock speaker wire in the truck will be replaced with 12 gauge kicker wire. The Future auto plan is shown below:

Subwoofers

2- Kicker 12" 800W 2-ohm Shallow Mount subwoofer

Midbase

2- Kicker 8" 350W 4-ohm Subwoofers

Doorspeakers

2- Kicker 6.5'' components

Headunit

Pioneer DEH-P4000UB

Sub Amp

Kicker ZX Series 1000W RMS Class D Monoblock Amplifier

Mid bass Amp

Kicker ZX Series 2-Channel 350W Car Amplifier

Door Speaker Amp

Kicker ZX Series 2-Channel 350W Car Amplifier

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[mbaoo]

Get it to a sound quality level?

I think your looking at this wrong.

What is your goal?

 

[c0smo kram3r 10+ year member]

Hmmm....

If you want really good sound quality, I'd look HIGH above a Kicker set up.

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

Kicker does not = SQ typically //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

You can a good image and stage, but the tonality...meh.

My advise. Do more research.

 

[Evanish 10+ year member]

I don't mean actual "sound quality" but just going for a better sound system than what I have now. Something that will sound descent when played both at a low level and a high level.

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

love your truck, i've wanted an RT for years, but with gas the way it is (and where its going) i don't think it will ever be practical for me to own one.

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

Personaly Id look into the rainbow mids and highs, and Possibly 2 JL 8w7's (flame suit on for that one).

 

[Evanish 10+ year member]

Thank You! Gas is a pain when it comes to driving it but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I never really was into the dakotas until I saw this one sitting in someone's yard with a for-sale sign on it. Couldn't pass up a great deal. Bought it off a trucker, so he never drove it much so it was in great shape and only had 48k miles on it.

 

[moo_awn 10+ year member]

Mid-bass subs? Bit of an oxy-moron isn't it? Or at least a misnomer.

 

[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

Mid-bass subs? Bit of an oxy-moron isn't it? Or at least a misnomer.

where are you getting that from?

And BTW, I ment using the JL's as dedicated subs, not mid basses.

 

[moo_awn 10+ year member]

where are you getting that from?
And BTW, I ment using the JL's as dedicated subs, not mid basses.

I was referring to the OP

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

oh, and as far as sound quality and limited space are concerned, maybe you should hold out until the stereo integrity BMs come out... whenever that is... (maybe they have already, i dunno, hopefully someone can chime in on this)