ninjarob

what all would be needed to replace them while still keeping the sound crisp yet not unde4rpowered from the deck? and not modifying extremely

robzz

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Well, long time reader, few times poster here.

I just changed the front speakers for some Alpine components, wired to the front door Bose amp. They sound acceptable, not great. The front 9" woofers are 0.5 ohms (not a typo) and most car speakers are 4 ohms so the volume is low. I put the fader 4/8 on front setting to mitigate this. Then again, I don't listen very loud so it's not a problem to me.

With better speakers in, I can tell you the Bose setup is simply s***. Not more, not less. There is no very highs, no mids and a lot of poor bass.

So the sound is'nt crisp to start with (no highs) and it will stay underpowered since you dont want to change the whole setup.

The rear speakers are supposedly 2 ohm so changing them for some aftermarket 4 ohm will help quality but not power.

From what i read, adding an amp for a subwoofer to the Bose setup is complicated to do correctly. You have to use some active Line Converter because the stock headunit send differential signal (i.e.: not signal and ground as usual but signal + and signal -). Read more on this before attempting anything.

Adding an amp to the Bose speaker is undoable because of their low ohms.


After reading a lot, I chose to go the "replace the whole setup".

Hope it helps.

ninjarob

haha it definetly does im looking into more of the replacing the whole thing too ive always wanted a 7 in touch screen and i think this car would be the perfect one to do it in now the only task is finding the dash kit in piano black.......