Hey guys, I own a 1995 Chevy K1500 Extended cab stepside pickup. I plan on installing the below equipment into my truck but would like all of your opinions on not only the equipment, but a lot of other things. So to start, below is the equipment I have picked out.
Sony DSX-S300BTX (Head Unit)
Sony XA-300 or XA-C40 (Unit needed to add multiple digital inputs to head unit)
JL Audio 12W3v3-4 (Subwoofer)
Chevy Custom 12 Enclosure (Subwoofer Enclosure)
Polyfill Enclosure Stuffing Fill (Fill for Subwoofer Enclosure)
Power Acoustik BAMF 1800/2 (Amp to run sub)
Absolute Kit1250 (Sub Cables)
Alpine SPR-17C 6.5 inch door pair (Front door speakers)
Alpine SPS-406 4x6 inch door pair (Rear wall speakers)
Power Acoustik OVN4-1200 (Amp for all 4 speakers)
Metra Electronics 70-1858 (Wire Harness)
Metra Electronics 99-3002 (Face Plate)
Goals for this project:
1. Forever get rid of the crappy stock radio and speakers.
2. Make an extremely clean, stealth, modern and tasteful upgrade to the audio without ruining the stock look
3. Avoid distortion in speaker quality and sound by being underpowered
Questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade my alternator?
2. Should I go ahead and plan on putting an inline fuse close to the battery?
3. Do I even need to power my door and back wall speakers with an amp? I am trying to avoid distortion and that "muddy" sound that comes from some car setups where the speakers are either crap or underpowered.
4. Besides from under the drivers seat, are there any other places you would recommend mounting the amp so that it safely secured and in an area where it would receive adequate cooling and not be in the way.
5. Should I rewire the entire truck with new speaker cable. That is, if I amp the door and back wall speakers, should I run new wire and if so what gauge do you recommend and how would you go about it.
6. Any tips or tricks you would recommend. Are there any components you would also swap out or update while pulling apart all this?
7. Is sound damping really necessary? I understand this might be done if you were trying to build an elite system to compete at shows with but for a young guy like myself to crank it up every once in a while do I really need to do it? Would a **** ton of components in my truck rattle all of a sudden causing me to regret not doing it?
8. Are there any components I am missing, or of the ones I have selected are there ones that are better for the buck? When picking this system out I was told the JL subs were clean, hit hard, and were the top end and if I were going to replace the door and wall speakers that Alpine was the way to go.
Anyways, sorry for the long message but I wanted to make sure that I am not missing out on any major things and would like to hear some of you pros out there. The only thing on the equipment list that I pretty much dead set on is the head unit which Sony just released. In my old truck I had good luck with their Explode head unit line and I really like the iPod tray instead of a CD player. Especially since my dash has a built in stock CD player below the HVAC controls that I plan on hooking up in case of the rare occurrence that I want to play a CD.
I hope to make this a build log soon so please give me your input before I buy all this.
Thanks,
T
Sony DSX-S300BTX (Head Unit)
Sony XA-300 or XA-C40 (Unit needed to add multiple digital inputs to head unit)
JL Audio 12W3v3-4 (Subwoofer)
Chevy Custom 12 Enclosure (Subwoofer Enclosure)
Polyfill Enclosure Stuffing Fill (Fill for Subwoofer Enclosure)
Power Acoustik BAMF 1800/2 (Amp to run sub)
Absolute Kit1250 (Sub Cables)
Alpine SPR-17C 6.5 inch door pair (Front door speakers)
Alpine SPS-406 4x6 inch door pair (Rear wall speakers)
Power Acoustik OVN4-1200 (Amp for all 4 speakers)
Metra Electronics 70-1858 (Wire Harness)
Metra Electronics 99-3002 (Face Plate)
Goals for this project:
1. Forever get rid of the crappy stock radio and speakers.
2. Make an extremely clean, stealth, modern and tasteful upgrade to the audio without ruining the stock look
3. Avoid distortion in speaker quality and sound by being underpowered
Questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade my alternator?
2. Should I go ahead and plan on putting an inline fuse close to the battery?
3. Do I even need to power my door and back wall speakers with an amp? I am trying to avoid distortion and that "muddy" sound that comes from some car setups where the speakers are either crap or underpowered.
4. Besides from under the drivers seat, are there any other places you would recommend mounting the amp so that it safely secured and in an area where it would receive adequate cooling and not be in the way.
5. Should I rewire the entire truck with new speaker cable. That is, if I amp the door and back wall speakers, should I run new wire and if so what gauge do you recommend and how would you go about it.
6. Any tips or tricks you would recommend. Are there any components you would also swap out or update while pulling apart all this?
7. Is sound damping really necessary? I understand this might be done if you were trying to build an elite system to compete at shows with but for a young guy like myself to crank it up every once in a while do I really need to do it? Would a **** ton of components in my truck rattle all of a sudden causing me to regret not doing it?
8. Are there any components I am missing, or of the ones I have selected are there ones that are better for the buck? When picking this system out I was told the JL subs were clean, hit hard, and were the top end and if I were going to replace the door and wall speakers that Alpine was the way to go.
Anyways, sorry for the long message but I wanted to make sure that I am not missing out on any major things and would like to hear some of you pros out there. The only thing on the equipment list that I pretty much dead set on is the head unit which Sony just released. In my old truck I had good luck with their Explode head unit line and I really like the iPod tray instead of a CD player. Especially since my dash has a built in stock CD player below the HVAC controls that I plan on hooking up in case of the rare occurrence that I want to play a CD.
I hope to make this a build log soon so please give me your input before I buy all this.
Thanks,
T