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- 2007 Mazdaspeed3 GT
hey fourthmeal- how many cuft is your current false floor? i was wondering what size range i would be looking at if i ever went that route for a 12" sub.
Fourthmeal:
Are you an Installer? or a DIY/Hobbiest?
took you 150 hours to build your trunk? does that include your failed attempt? i don't think i can get that much time in before it gets really coldmaybe i'll just throw something together to have music and do it in the spring.
So, you probably already know that there are 100's if not thousands of brands out there that are in car audio, and you probably know that about 10% of them are decent, and 5% of them are GOOD. Knowing which ones are good and which ones are junk isn't easy. One hint is the price, but that is a partial story. Brands rise and fall, and get bought out and restructured. Its hard to know which is at its peak, and when to get what. Also, it is even more scary to know that there are only a few build houses that actually make product, and the rest are simply companies that get things built under a different name. Tricky!
Here's a setup I think you'll find acceptable, given what you are after in a system:
Raammat and Ensolite with spray adhesive - $160 estimate
Knukonceptz 4 gauge wiring kit - $42.99 (includes power/ground/RCA's)
Knukonceptz speaker wire, Karma 16 gauge 100ft - $35.99
Knukonceptz speaker wire (for sub) Karma 12 gauge, 5ft -$3.75
Pioneer Premier C720 front components, best sellers by far - $254 (seriously almost as good as stand-alone speakers)
JBL GTO 10" Subwoofer (best sub for 50 bucks easy) -$54
Stick that in a .75 cubic foot sealed box in the trunk. Your choice if you want to make it high-tech fiberglass, hidden, or just a simple box that can be removed if need be. My suggestion is to start simple and work your way to a stealthy fiberglass box.
Audiocontrol EQL (an EQ and Line driver to get clean sound out of the speaker outputs) - $169 (this is optional, but it will greatly help)
Phoenix Gold XS6600 6ch amp (an old but still around great amp for the whole system) - $299
So complete (less install costs and some materials like wood) would be $1018 or so. And it would ROCK.
hm. i'll hold off on it then. maybe sell the 0 gauge instead haha. i never could find out what our alternator was rated at.
what'd you do with the two other terminals on the positive? did you bend them so that one of them is straight so all the rings will fit on that positive terminal? or did you just add the streetwires positive terminal somewhere on that thing..
Sure, that would work pretty well. I'd be on the lookout for a good monoblock ti amp for the sub later though, that way you can run Active on the front pair of speakers. But great start. I love those ti amps.