Alpine MRV-F540?

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'03 P5, '94 Miata, '00 VFR, '01 SV
Alpine MRV-F540 , good amp?

for a normal system....nothing crazy.
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connected to either a
kenwood

KDC-X679
or
KDC-X579

hooked up to sirius, sound good so far?

using factory sub-in spare...and OE speakers for the time being.....

or should i stay w/ all kenwood stuff

btw, i prefer sirius over XM

plan on prolly getting components in the door.
 
umm... that would be their 4x80w amp, yes? What exactly are you wanting to accomplish? push all your door speakers, or push your fronts and a sub off of one amp? THat's ALOT of juice, and it'll blow up your stock speakers in a hurry if you aren't EXTREMELY careful with the gains. I'm running essentially a power-identical amp, and I can say that I, personally would have gotten somethign else if I'd have known how I would end up running my system. Unless you're wanting to conserve space, and put your amp int he back, and use it to power a sub as well, I'd look to running 2 seperate amps. something with a bit more power say 130ish watts per ch (but 2-way) for your front speakers, then getting a seperate, slightly more powerful sub-amp when the time comes for that. (match it to your sub, but I'd say anywhere form 400w on up would be good) My reasoning for this is that ALOT of higher end components all want to be fed lots of power. they don't sound good until they've atleast got 100w flowing to 'em.

ON to the HU, kenwood is alright, but there's better to be had. (some members of thsi board are pretty anti-kenwood, often tiems with reason even) Personally, I'm a HUGE fan of Eclipse. SUPER good SQ, and pretty low on gimmicks. It all depends on what exactly you're looking for. If you want somethign that'll do sirius, Eclipse isn't quite there yet, though the rep claims they'll have a reverse-compatible module out soon (wouldn't hold my breath) but Clarions are pretty nice as well.

as for a system plan, I'd go like this: start speaker shopping right away. it'll take awhile to decide which ones are right. so spend as much time auditioning as possible. make one good solid disc of some of your favorite songs of the broadest variety of styles you usually listen to and have at it. Personally, I like Boston Acoustics, Focal, JL. YOU should also check CDT, arc, MBQuart, diamond, etcetc... After this, then find an amp that'll push the speakers you like with enough authority. Fom there, then you've got a couplefew options for subs, and there's tons of that littered about this board.... kind of depends on your timeline, but check eD's clearance specials going on right now. they're some AWESOME speakers, and they're at good prices while they're still around. Note that they're not discontinuing because they wanted to improve, they're discontinuing because they HAD to seeing as they couldn't get the flat cones anymore.
 
I am anti-kenwood. I had one in my car, and my dad had one in his, both had to be sent out to be repaired. My faceplat got stuck multiple times, and my dads wouldn't play or eject cd's POS in my opinion. My Alpine deck has never failed me. My opinion, if you are getting the alpine amp, get an alpine deck too, you won't be disapointed. I particularly like Phoenix gold speakers. Al though they are going more mainstream, the products they produce are very good quality. I like infiniti too :D
 
Check on the alpine deck, that'd be one of my other listed faovrites, but they're XM... In the end, go for what you like in a deck, be it audio control capabilities, sound quality, Flashy lights, splashing dolphins, easy to use interface, or whatever. As long as it's not sony you should be alright. As for the speakers.. umm.. Like I said, Audition AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. even the cheap ones, sometimes they'll suprise you. PG's sounds horrible to my ear, and I've got some infinity's that I hate more and more with the more nice speakers I listen to.
 
haha true, but they are leaps and bounds better than the stock ones, and the pos pioneers that were in the fronts before. PG makes good amps though even if you don't like the speakers. The speakers still sound good to me though. Maybe my ear isn't as trained as yours ;) OH as for flashy dolphins... My GF has the pioneer 6500 and she loves it. Easy user interface, 3 preouts, sub control, 5 band equalizer(?). overpriced I think, but she got a good deal on it. Does everything she needs it to do, and it makes my old system in her car sound better than it did in my car. I think its due to the deck. My POS sony had ZERO control over anything.
 
*LMAO* moi? trained ear? *HEH* well, kids we have a first! perhaps this might start going to my head here... I have actually kinda turned into a speaker snob. Can't help it, it's an obsession. everytime I'm around a new stereo shop, I run in with my demo disc, and B-line for their highend speakerboards.

As for the deck, yea Pio's pretty good. and WORLDS better than sony. I don't know HOW they've managed to get by on cool lights and neat-o designs alone.

Hey, speaking of Girlfriends, I notice you're from SLC. My g/f is looking for a P5 and saw one listed I believe in SLC. It's black with custom yellow leather seats. Might you bychance know of this car? might it be worth driving down there to snag-up? PM me if you do know, guess I'm threadjacking as-is *L*
 
I have had my MRV-F540 up and running now for about 3 weeks and I LOVE IT. Now given, I am using Infinity Refernce Series Speakers capable of pushing somewhere around 300W each in all 4 corners. But anyways, it pushes the speakers great, but as it was already said, if you don't watch your gains, you WILL blow something. The only bad thing is it IS kinda big in size...
 
I've got two alpine amps in my p5 and they've served me well (great SQ). Now i'm just waiting to replace my sub which made its exit earlier in the week.
 
I have the amp under that, the 340 and I love it. I also have two MRD-M300 mono blocks but I havent heard them yet.. CANT WAIT.
 
I am not anti-Kenwood. You have a nice set up and the amp and speakers are the obvious differences in a car. Alpine makes killer amps and as for speakers, I would go with another brand for sound quality.
 
I say in your case, I would get one set of great sounding speakers and perhaps another sub, even if it is a single 8" sub. There is a lot you can do with one driver. (band2)
 
All alpines of that series are 2 11/16ths high and 9 11/16th deep.
This one is 16 7/16ths wide/long
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