In Reply to: Stereo & Speaker recommendations?, Paul [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:09:32

I am in the slow process of putting a stereo in my 88 3 door. I pulled all my equipment out of my 89 4 door and now need to put it into the 3 door. I have 4 inch bostons up front. They are running off of my Sony head unit. There is plenty of power with most new head units to push the small 4 inchers. My Sony has 16w RMS power and 40w peak. This matches the speakers. For the rear I have some Alpine 6x9s that I never really liked, but were cheap compared to the Bostons that I wanted. I cut holes in the rear deck on the 4 door and dropped them in. It looked good, but for the new car, I want it to look totally stock. I am planning on putting in Boston 5x7s in the stock location. I am going to push them with a Rockford Fosgate punch 100. To put the head unit in, front speakers, and run the wires for the amp took about three hours in my cold ass garage and a 36 dollar chiro bill. But now all I need is to put the last of the speakers in and hide the amp under the back seat. I will have a nice looking stock setup. I had a sub for a while, but it just ended up getting in the way and not really making the sound any better. The only thing I would suggest is spend your money on good speakers and wires. I would put in a smaller amp with a good set of speakers before I would put in a sub. A sub takes a lot of power to sound good and also takes a lot of room. Hope this helps. Remember, a good looking and sounding setup takes time to install and costs money. Figure out what is important to your budget, look and start there.

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• Stereo & Speaker recommendations?, Paul , Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:09:32
  • Re: Stereo & Speaker recommendations?, David Burino, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:57:42
  • Re: Stereo & Speaker recommendations?, Michael P Hess, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:04:23 <-- Viewing This Message
  • on the cheap .. All Pioneer ..., Trev, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:59:23
  • Need to Commit at this Point, Dan W, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:48:14
  • front - 4" radioshack Optima midrange + 1" tweeters, sweet, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:55:02
  • Re: Stereo & Speaker recommendations?, Randy Thatcher , Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:42:31
    • I too have MB Quarts >, ChipJ, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:00:45
    • Agree on MB Quart, Saabpilot , Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:41:33
    • I have been using MB Quarts for about 6 years now and, KB88900T, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:38:51
      • Re: I have been using MB Quarts for about 6 years now and, wlfbronco, Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:15:57
        • Do you have pics of the 8" drivers in the doors ?, wlfbronco, Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:17:02
          • Stereo pics. n/m. Cheers, KB88900T, Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:30:11
      • MB Quart - 12 years - 3 vehicles!! still great....n/m, JG, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:42:53
        • SWEET!!!! n/m. Cheers, KB88900T, Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:06:09

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