Complete Soundsystem

[green94z28]

About a month ago I started investing in stuff to do a soundsystem. Here is what I'm running:

Alpine CDE-143BT
(4) Memphis Audio Power Reference 15-PR620V2 Speakers
Memphis Auido Power Kit 17-8G Kit
(1) xtant x604 amp [600 Watts]
(2) 12" Boston Accoustic Subwoofers


Here are some pictures of it all-

Speakers:
29181
(Installed)
29180
Gutted for Power Kit:
29182
Head Unit:
29184
Subs and Amp:
29183
(Each Subwoofer is running at 300 Watts)

It may not be the greatest soundsystem, but it works for me!

[popo8]

Jeremy!!!! This is bluebottlez's son..and recent new owner of a 94 z28...


Find the introduction section Jer and intro urself... and post up.pics of the car and stuff...


LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[95albinobird]

yooo you went a little over board on gutting the car but hay that was a great time to clean it right..i got a stinger 0 gauge kit mine in without doing all that and you can't see a wire or a lump in the carpet.and hay that extant was high dollar AMP in the mid 90's and it is a good amp MADE IN USA.
i was a installer and built quite a few custom enclosures in my day.my only suggestion is take 1 15 out and build a enclosure for it because you don't have enough air space for 2 15's. i'm running 1 12 i built the box to the speaker's spec's and it make's my ears itch and my nose tickle.this site may help you and anyone else looking to do their own work.
http://www.the12volt.com/ you can use the airspace caculator from there and how to properly get the measurements it even has a port caculator

[popo8]

U actually have it backwards... he gutted the car to clean it...and they decided that was when they would attack the system install.

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[jaysz2893]

very nice, i hade the BOSE in my 93 and it sucked. Now I have a borla with an electric cutout for my sound system. :-p

I did some installs back i n the day too. Your install looks well done and great time to do it when the interior is out. I agree that 2 15's in a hatch back car is overkill. I had a single 10" in a stealth box in the camaro and it hit pretty damn hard, but a bigger box with the right driver would have been better. Back in the day I had a 62 impala with a very large 4 cubic foot box in the trunk with 4 12" IMPP pioneers driven off 2 channels of my amp and i actully popped the trunk lid open with the bass and broke a hinge.

[green94z28]

yooo you went a little over board on gutting the car but hay that was a great time to clean it right..i got a stinger 0 gauge kit mine in without doing all that and you can't see a wire or a lump in the carpet.and hay that extant was high dollar AMP in the mid 90's and it is a good amp MADE IN USA.
i was a installer and built quite a few custom enclosures in my day.my only suggestion is take 1 15 out and build a enclosure for it because you don't have enough air space for 2 15's. i'm running 1 12 i built the box to the speaker's spec's and it make's my ears itch and my nose tickle.this site may help you and anyone else looking to do their own work.
http://www.the12volt.com/ you can use the airspace caculator from there and how to properly get the measurements it even has a port caculator


very nice, i hade the BOSE in my 93 and it sucked. Now I have a borla with an electric cutout for my sound system. :-p

I did some installs back i n the day too. Your install looks well done and great time to do it when the interior is out. I agree that 2 15's in a hatch back car is overkill. I had a single 10" in a stealth box in the camaro and it hit pretty damn hard, but a bigger box with the right driver would have been better. Back in the day I had a 62 impala with a very large 4 cubic foot box in the trunk with 4 12" IMPP pioneers driven off 2 channels of my amp and i actully popped the trunk lid open with the bass and broke a hinge.

1.) The subs are 12" not 15".
2.) My amp is the second model of that series. The second model was released in 2003 I want to say.


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[95albinobird]

sorry the 15 on the boxes threw me off.as long as your happy with the sound than who am i to say anything,my 12 took 2 cubic feet and that was the like the whole well.but i can still get the spare tire out.however what i said about having the proper air space still stands.and exant was bought out by MTX around 2003ish it is still a good amp.better than any made in china crap!!!!us made amp's were and are the best

[green94z28]

Pretty much anything that comes out of China is crap. Their cars, car parts, toys, etc is usually cheap plastic and is made by child slaves in a sweat shop. The only good part about China is their food; but that is only in the initial intake, but when it comes out and how bad it tears up your stomach isn't exactly a walk in the park

[popo8]

Lol... :eek:

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[donfrye]

It's sad what happened to absolutely amazing brands like Soundstream, Xtant, Zapco, and Precision Power.

[green94z28]

It's sad what happened to absolutely amazing brands like Soundstream, Xtant, Zapco, and Precision Power.

I can only imagine


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[donfrye]

I used to be a big audio buff and did local installs prior to the "fiberglass revolution" back when we used MDF almost exclusively and a lot of people actually used particle board.

Nowadays, I'm too old to give myself a headache so I say get what you can afford and what you like. Screw what other people think, it's yours and you drive it.

[green94z28]

I used to be a big audio buff and did local installs prior to the "fiberglass revolution" back when we used MDF almost exclusively and a lot of people actually used particle board.

Nowadays, I'm too old to give myself a headache so I say get what you can afford and what you like. Screw what other people think, it's yours and you drive it.

I know someone who has two 15" subs in a 2003 Malibu (not exactly sure of the year) and they hit so sloppy its disappointing. Not to mention he has rattled his license plate off sitting in a parking lot with bassy music cranked

[popo8]

I used to have 4 12s in 2 enclosures in my old bird... and once i had one 15. Back then...it wasnt about quality... it was who had more and whose was bigger. Lol

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[donfrye]

Sounds like the 90's!!!

[popo8]

Sounds like the 90's!!!

AMEN!

[donfrye]

I had 2 15" Original kicker comps and a kenwood 1023 amp that was an absolute horse in my explorer. Some mutant broke out my window, stole the system, stole a full bottle of tommy cologne, my jordan 13's (size 14), and pissed in my seats.

needless to say, they must have known me lol......

[popo8]

I had 2 15" Original kicker comps and a kenwood 1023 amp that was an absolute horse in my explorer. Some mutant broke out my window, stole the system, stole a full bottle of tommy cologne, my jordan 13's (size 14), and pissed in my seats.

needless to say, they must have known me lol......


I freakin lost it laughin with your final sentence...bwahahahaha...



Back on topic though... I will say that the rear enclosure and subs came out of BlueBottleZs red TA (if you guys remember that build). It hit HARD as hell in there.... Jer played it for me now, and it does sound real good in the camaro as well. I gotta say, I think its the right balance between sound and LOOK AT HOW BIG MINE ARE. :)

[donfrye]

If you want my 2 pennies, I'd take cardboard and trace out a trim piece for the amp to cover the wires and make it look flush. Mdf would work well. Carpet it the same as the interior but make sure you give the amp room to breathe and make it sit so it can't vibrate.

you could take your leftovers and trim out a cover for the box that had plexi in it and backlight it just for fun. I'd carpet it the interior color too so you could have uniformity in the interior but not have to strip the box.

[popo8]

Jer...ask ur dad if he has any pics of the install from when it was in the ta

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[95albinobird]

i was reading through the posts guy's too funny...i just built my enclosure out of MDF LOL. no fiberglass here! i'm rocking a old school RF HX2 and a RF POWER BD1000 97 vintage and a RF500A2 same year.i have 2 RF POWER DVC 10'S we are talking OLD SCHOOL by today's standards,2 PPI POWER CLASS 2150'S and a PPI 2100.2,a audiocontrol epicenter and a eqx that i may use later.my soundstream 10.0 and alumapro 5 fared cap are chilling in the closet with every thing else just waiting.i didn't think anyone remembered the good old 90's car audio!you guy's are awesome!!!!! i did just buy a JL AUDIO W7 12 it is made in the usa but i didn't use it i went with the old but NIB RF12 instead so there is another 600 bux in the closet.
:metal::metal::metal:

[donfrye]

Do you remember the ppi a1200 and a600 from the audio art series?

Amazing.

I had 2 og hcca 10's ran from two rf 800a2's from the shield series with the link between. Fucking deafening in a mustang gt. Filled it out with an alpine cva-1000 flip out screen and the parametric digital eq in the cubby hole underneath. I used oz audio door speakers when they were still top end.

I miss that stuff but I'm old as hell now as I said earlier.

on subject, I would like to see that other install.

Im about a month away from throwing mine back together. Just need to buy the sub and build an amp rack.

[popo8]

A friend of mine had that really long fancy ppi amp. It was like 1000.00 bucks... I dont even remember what was so special about it.

I used to run a 4 chan philps sound lab amp and two kenwood amps for the mids and components...lol. spent soooooo much money just to thump÷

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[95albinobird]

Do you remember the ppi a1200 and a600 from the audio art series?

Amazing.

I had 2 og hcca 10's ran from two rf 800a2's from the shield series with the link between. Fucking deafening in a mustang gt. Filled it out with an alpine cva-1000 flip out screen and the parametric digital eq in the cubby hole underneath. I used oz audio door speakers when they were still top end.

I miss that stuff but I'm old as hell now as I said earlier.

on subject, I would like to see that other install.

Im about a month away from throwing mine back together. Just need to buy the sub and build an amp rack.
DUDE my audio art hc 100 got stolen buy a crack head prolly traded it for a 10 dollar rock!!! IT WAS THE BEST AMP EVER!!!i still have the link i had a 800a2 on 6 1/2 finatic q's with that bd1000 on bass. i just sold the 800 about 2 years ago.the 4th gen's don't really give you any options.amps in the hatch behind the seat and the standard f body box but i did 1-12 and ported it with a aero port on the side it's loud and clean i'll get some pics when i can but it's nothing like the 90's.....

[95albinobird]

A friend of mine had that really long fancy ppi amp. It was like 1000.00 bucks... I dont even remember what was so special about it.

I used to run a 4 chan philps sound lab amp and two kenwood amps for the mids and components...lol. spent soooooo much money just to thump÷

LTXtech.com is my Drug...
just being a PPI made it specal

[donfrye]

29246

[green94z28]

Jer...ask ur dad if he has any pics of the install from when it was in the ta

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

I want to say that he doesn't..

[popo8]

I want to say that he doesn't..
really???

LTXtech.com is my Drug...

[green94z28]

I dont really recall him taking many interior pics of the car. Plus he has had 2 or 3 phones since then, so he may have lost them in the process of going phone-to-phone

[audiorailroad]

http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/old-school-car-audio-discussion/36261-old-school-showoff-thread.html here ya go fellas ive been on this forum a long time