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Hi guys, just wondering if I could get some advice on boosting up my sound system. I have the standard Premo sound at the moment, but im looking to change out all 4 5"7"'s for better ones and add 2 12" subs to the boot.

If I replace the standard amp can I plug it into existing wiring, or will I need one of these lineout converter units, and re-wire my whole car?

Also with amp choices, would you reccomend seperate units, 1 for subs and 1 for speakers... or would one big amp do the whole job better?

Any advice would be great :)

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Hey mate,

having done a lot of cars of the years its never a bad idea to upgrade the cables as well - however its a lot of stuffing around, so depending on the levels of power u are planning on running, u might be able to get away with std speaker wires... if your going to be running high volume then no harm in swapping....

as for amps, well its never a bad thing to run 1x speakers, and 1x sub - this was if anything goes wrong with the subs u will always still have tunes!!!

also normally better general sound...

this is the very basic response to your questions, if you want more details please let me know...

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Hey thanks for the reply :)

So far ive managed to source 4 jbl 5"7"'s at 75 RMS speakers, and im looking at 2 12" jbl 300 RMS subs which im planning to build a custom box for under the parcel shelf in the boot, following some great posts ive found on in this forum.

Alot of people on here have also said they had trouble getting a decent signal from the ICC to the amp, so I was wondering if I could use the existing signal hooked up to the stock Premo amp when I replace it... or I need to invest in a lineout converter?

Amp choices.... No idea lol, is it better to slightly underpower or overpower with the RMS rating? any suggestions for make or model (keeping in mind im not made of money lol)

Cheers

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over power them that way you give the drivers good clean signal, just turn the gain down . I am looking at 3 JL10w3"s in the sides of the boot as thex each will go in a .5ft cub box. That way I keep as much of the boot space and can use the split fold seats

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I've done this exact thing in my t only a matter of 2 weeks ago with my premo sound, except I left the stock speakers, took about three hours and is very straightforward, I run 2 rockford fosgate 12'' subs and a 1000w amp and didn't touch a single stock wire exept to splice in a signal line out converter. the standard speakers hold their own quite well for now but may upgrade them soon too.

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I've done this exact thing in my t only a matter of 2 weeks ago with my premo sound, except I left the stock speakers, took about three hours and is very straightforward, I run 2 rockford fosgate 12'' subs and a 1000w amp and didn't touch a single stock wire exept to splice in a signal line out converter. the standard speakers hold their own quite well for now but may upgrade them soon too.

Hey Onboost, whats the sound like?

Also got a couple of questions for you lol, did you just replace the premo amp with your ugrade... no new power lines or anything? And what kind of line out converter did you use?

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sounds loud lol very loud, the bass is unbelieveable and no I left the stock amp in place, run a new power line to my amp which is mounted on the right rear seat (back of course) and gave it signal with an alpine rca line out converter (about $40 I think) which usually gets tapped into the speaker wires but I tapped it into the factory sub wires so it only gets bass signal. I wired it all in, in a few hours, (however I had done it all before in my previous ba). all up whole setup would be lucky to owe me $1800 but you could do it much cheaper with cheaper components.

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Guys check our my post here...

http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43535

2 and 3 subs... WOW - serious stuff guys... have done a lot of that sort of thing in the past... But the best piece of advice I can give in reference to subs is this - MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL THEM CORRECTLY. ie- amp matching, and even more importantly BOX CONSTRUCTION AND 'TUNING'. something far to many people, including the typical local trasfield store does is, NOT 'tune' the sub box... Massive NO NO... I had a Honda Civic many years ago, and tuned a 10" single voice coil JL 10w04 in an over sized 40lt box, twin ports and ran some environment simulations via some special audio programs I have, and well everyone from the boys at trashfield, Ryda, JB HIFI, and the more specialist stores up here in Sydney never believe it was a single 10" until they looked in the boot!

They all thought I had 2x 10" or in some cases 2x 12"

Never less to say I ended up selling a few the plans and I believe there is a lot of cars floating around with the same sub and boxes now!!! :)

If you want punch gets 10", 12" is a good all round size and over are just exactly that - OVER KILL!

Good point from three monkeys on the oversize amp with lower gain - this will be one of the better things you can do - not much better ideas then clean power!!!

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Hey mate,

having done a lot of cars of the years its never a bad idea to upgrade the cables as well - however its a lot of stuffing around, so depending on the levels of power u are planning on running, u might be able to get away with std speaker wires... if your going to be running high volume then no harm in swapping....

as for amps, well its never a bad thing to run 1x speakers, and 1x sub - this was if anything goes wrong with the subs u will always still have tunes!!!

also normally better general sound...

this is the very basic response to your questions, if you want more details please let me know...

Having lost my original sub a/c lp tank, installed a low profile pioneer 8" which fits nicely.

To get the bass back will a line converter and a decent amp connected to the oringal bass wiring work ok.

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hey dude I udes the lc6 in my car that runs of the pspeaker wire, its got 3 rca outputs, ive got my mono block hoked to it sounds good!!! im selling my unit as im upgrading to a dvd player if your interested in getting 1 let me know..

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