2008 GT Shaker 500 Upgrade ?'s
#11
I took off the plastic cover on the door making sure to take it off in one piece to be able to reuse.
Although I would agree with most and I can't wait to upgrade the head unit to actually get the best out of them.
#12
I went ahead and upgraded the head unit, and I would like to say that it did make a major difference. With my Shaker 500 I would turn it up, and my new speakers would get loud but not much low or mid coming from them.
After upgrading to a JVC-NT300 GPS unit, I will admit at first it sounded like garbage!! Waaaaay too much bass and a lot of crackling. I had to play with the built in equalizer for a few hours before I dialed it in. Now I get a good amount of bass, and the mids sound so much better. I feel like the shaker 500 was "tuned" for slow bumping rap music, rock sounded terrible. Rock sounds soooo good now in my car, I forgot how much I loved it.
After upgrading to a JVC-NT300 GPS unit, I will admit at first it sounded like garbage!! Waaaaay too much bass and a lot of crackling. I had to play with the built in equalizer for a few hours before I dialed it in. Now I get a good amount of bass, and the mids sound so much better. I feel like the shaker 500 was "tuned" for slow bumping rap music, rock sounded terrible. Rock sounds soooo good now in my car, I forgot how much I loved it.
#13
I went ahead and upgraded the head unit, and I would like to say that it did make a major difference.
I feel like the shaker 500 was "tuned" for slow bumping rap music, rock sounded terrible.
#14
I upgraded my Shaker 500 system in my 05 GT by replacing the headunit with a Kenwood DDX470 touchscreen. Then I added a 10" RE Audio SEX10D4 subwoofer running at 800 watts by a Hifonics BRX1100.1 Mono amp in a 1.1 cf^3 ported box. It sounds extremely well even with the stock door and rear deck speakers. However I believe the rear deck speakers are giving out so a new speaker upgrade is in order soon.
Last edited by Carcrazycorey1; 02-20-2014 at 08:26 PM.
#16
It's my first system and first amp and I have no complaints about it so far. I'm running a 10" at 800W rms at 2ohm and might actually exhange the RE I got for the next series up and get a 2ohm Sub this time and wire it down to 1ohm. The one I'm looking at is good for 1200 rms I believe.
#17
Are you using the bass remote from the amp? I just wedged mine between the seat and tranny hump. There's so much difference in mp3s, cds and radio stations that being able to adjust the bass level without scrolling through a ton of menus on the hu is so much easier, and safer.
#18
Are you using the bass remote from the amp? I just wedged mine between the seat and tranny hump. There's so much difference in mp3s, cds and radio stations that being able to adjust the bass level without scrolling through a ton of menus on the hu is so much easier, and safer.
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