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I was in your shoes about a year ago. I blew one of my door speakers; that is how it all started. My system has undergone many changes, but as of today I have the following:
1997 900 SET
Stock head unit
CDT EF 61 Components in the doors
CDT Upstage kit on dash
Alpine 6x9's in rear
US Acoustics USC4065 running the comps
MTX Thunder 302 running an
Elemental Designs 13kV.2 in a 1.5 cu ft vented enclosure
I chose to keep the stock head unit because I like the clean look, the sound quality is pretty good, and I like the Weather Band function. I am running the rears from the head unit, the comps and the sub from amps.
Lose the stock amp; your door speakers will never sound right using this amp. It has some sort of internal low pass crossover.
You have two choices for integrating the stock head unit:
1. Splice in RCA's off of the existing preamp out. This is a PITA. There is however a front and rear out using this method. I had my system running via this method for a while. The problem is that the signal level from the head unit is too low to drive amps adequately. An AudioControl Matrix or Overdrive can solve this problem.
2. Use a speaker level line output converter. I have personally chosen the AudioControl LC6. I cut the front speaker wires behind the deck to splice in this unit. I get RCA outs for front speakers and sub with this ability to adjust the level independently. Sweet.
I was running 4" MB Quarts from the head unit in the dash location. They sounded like pooh and I eventually fried one. I looked at the stock speakers from the dash and noticed that they are 8 ohm versus my 4 ohm MB Quarts. Could have had something to do with it.
Right now I have CDT 6.5" midbass in the stock door location, tweeters cut into the door panel just above the stock location, and the upstage tweeters in the dash location. I am feeding the door speakers 125w per and the sub 500 watts. I am very pleased with the sound.
I also replaced my CD changer with a Clarion DSC 625 I found on Ebay. This is a newer model but is still compatible with the head unit. My skipping problem is gone and I can play burned cd's with no problem. There are Clarion units still available that are compatible with the stock changer.
Is this more info than you wanted?
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