well i have added two 12inch kickers and a 300 watt kicker amp to my mach460 system...

now i have a kenwood 6140 HU as well

all speakers and two mach amps still 'stock'


my question is, where is my weak link? if i change one more thing, what should it be? where is my money best spent at this point?

thanks all!

 

I would spend $20 for passive cross-overs(capacitors) for your tweets to take the bass out of them. and bypass the factory amp for them and use your deck to power them. I show how to bypass the amp on page 2 of my cardomian page.

 

how dificult is it to install something like this? i probably sound like an idiot , but i dont know much about car audio (learning more every day it seems) the tweets are the lower door speakers right?

 

is it possible to replace all the speakers with better aftermarket speaker and run them "plug and play" with the stock mach 460 amps ?

or would i have to gut the entire thing?


the system sounds pretty bad now with my dnx6140....bass is distorted a little and sounds 'hollow' and it seems like the speakers cant get up to par, when i put a little volume into them they distort as well

 

bbump

 

IMO get 2 sets of 5x7 coaxials the polk db571 is a great speaker and bypass ur factory amp and it should sound alot better

 

5x7 speakers would the door speakers (on bottom) correct? this seems like a good place to go, but the most distortion seems to be coming form the 'tweeter pods' (upper door)

if i puchase new higher quality speakers for this, would it just be a 'plug and play' set up or would i have to rewire it all the way through?

 

as posted just rewire it and bypass the crappy factory amp. i forgot you have the door tweeters either unhook them or get a component set instead

 

will bypassing the factory amps make that much of a difference? i am not comfortable rewiring system my self and dont want to have to pay someone to do it either

now if i simply disconnect the tweeters on the top of the door this will not cause a problem? the one on the passanger side is blown out and rattles like mad, driving me crazy

 

not gonna hurt anything by disconencting it. IMO the factory amp is garbage and u are limiting ur self by trying to use it