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<blockquote data-quote="Volvo_S80" data-source="post: 8337825" data-attributes="member: 664084">So I just bought a 2008 Volvo S80 Love the car but after some research I found that I cant take the Factory Head Unit out of my particular model :/ So now my I&#039;m wondering what I can do to upgrade my sound again. I have a sub 12 inch alpine type R with a 500 watt amp some 5 1/4 Components Alpiine type r with Infinity 6.5 inch coax with an alpine 4 channel amp 3553 Old and looking to upgrade in the very near future.So my question is whats my best play here? I have to keep my Factory Head unit and I want to connect my amps. My thoughts are either mount an aftermarket head unit in the Glove box and just give it power (this just makes sense to me for ease of getting what i want)or use Line converters from the speaker outputs from my factory Unit (I hear that Sound Quality can suffer) also I&#039;ve read that factory hed units have a bass lowering feature when the volume is up past 60% so bass is near silenced defeating the point of the install. But a sound processor can fix this? I dont know anything about sound processors any Advice would be appreciated.Overall goal is LOUD and clearFirst things first getting the Amps installed Sound processor needed? line converter?Second Getting new 6.5 Speakers for front, Components are favored 100-200$Lastly Decent Amp to push 4 Speakers 100 watts RMS ish?Budget is Medium I&#039;d say. Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Volvo_S80, post: 8337825, member: 664084"] So I just bought a 2008 Volvo S80 Love the car but after some research I found that I cant take the Factory Head Unit out of my particular model :/ So now my I'm wondering what I can do to upgrade my sound again. I have a sub 12 inch alpine type R with a 500 watt amp some 5 1/4 Components Alpiine type r with Infinity 6.5 inch coax with an alpine 4 channel amp 3553 Old and looking to upgrade in the very near future. So my question is whats my best play here? I have to keep my Factory Head unit and I want to connect my amps. My thoughts are either mount an aftermarket head unit in the Glove box and just give it power (this just makes sense to me for ease of getting what i want) or use Line converters from the speaker outputs from my factory Unit (I hear that Sound Quality can suffer) also I've read that factory hed units have a bass lowering feature when the volume is up past 60% so bass is near silenced defeating the point of the install. But a sound processor can fix this? I dont know anything about sound processors any Advice would be appreciated. Overall goal is LOUD and clear First things first getting the Amps installed Sound processor needed? line converter? Second Getting new 6.5 Speakers for front, Components are favored 100-200$ Lastly Decent Amp to push 4 Speakers 100 watts RMS ish? Budget is Medium I'd say. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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