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Originally Posted by MattG
I think Ace's point is that the car's so noisy, there's no point in stressing too much about getting the perfect sound system - none will sound very good in these cars.
I'm running a stealthbox off a small Blaupunkt amp, with Polk speakers replacing the stock ones and still run off the head unit. It sounds great and is a simple, relatively lightweight solution. Upgrading speakers alone didn't make much difference IMO, what really did it was adding the subwoofer.
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I can second this opinion. I have the stealthbox, stock Alpine head unit, Boston 4ch amp, and Alpine components (4" front, 5.25" rear). The components are wired in parallel off 2 channels and the other 2 channels bridged for the sub.
Plenty of volume, which is necessary to overcome road noise (and exhaust noise in my case) but not really hifi. Just like home audio, the *environment* is everything.
Often, the stereo is off because the sound of the car is better, IMHO.
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