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I want a amp. Confused on size?

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Old 10-22-2014, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by tribulation138
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Well... just be careful with the gain on the amp. Since I doubt you have a mic, laptop and a pink noise tuning sound track, you'll have to do it by ear. So you want to use the music you listen to the most, whatever that is. On the HU, flat line the treble and the bass out. (0/0) Now turn the gain down on the amp down to about 1/4. Now turn the volume up all the way on the HU. Now slowly turn up the gain up. Once the audio starts to cut out and generally sound terrible, turn the gain down a tiny bit. If you have the right HU you'll be able to do a little more fine tuning such as time control, frequency tuning, and so on. Although the speakers are on economical side... you'd be surprised how good you can get them to sound with the right power and tune.

For amps, I would look at (in no particular order):

Alpine PDX-F6
MB Quart RA1000.4
Soundstream TN4.900D (although Soundstream has a cheaper name... the product is actually pretty good, not Alpine good but good enough for a Jeep)
Soundstream ST4.1000D (although this amp is slightly under the rating I would like... the physical size of the amp does make it advantageous)
JL Audio HD600/4
Rockford Fosgate Power T600-4
Zapco ST-4D
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Wow. Very informative. Thank u
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Originally Posted by tribulation138
Wow. Very informative. Thank u
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Old 10-26-2014, 10:13 AM
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Now im thinking i might swap out the 2 roof 6.5 3way speakers with 6.5 inch subs. Theres absolutly no room in a two door for a sub.
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Originally Posted by tribulation138
Now im thinking i might swap out the 2 roof 6.5 3way speakers with 6.5 inch subs. Theres absolutly no room in a two door for a sub.
My brother custom built a sub box on his soundbar in his TJ a couple years ago... Needless to say it just didn't sound that great... And he knows how to fiberglass mold in a custom box.

Just replacing the speakers with subs will probably sound even worse. You can try it but be prepared for it not to sound very good.
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Sure there is. Under one of your seats. I think its Mattk or someone on here building boxes for under the front seats. Might be worth looking inti
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Originally Posted by DunnyBunny
Sure there is. Under one of your seats. I think its Mattk or someone on here building boxes for under the front seats. Might be worth looking inti
Think so. It would be a small box, no?
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Originally Posted by tribulation138
Think so. It would be a small box, no?
Boxes are based on the sub. There are a fair amount of subs that can run in very small boxes easily enough. Under seat subs will sound far better too.


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