I am looking for good quality photos of YOUR installs to include in these tutorials.

What should you do ?

- Read the tutorial
- Take photos of either your equipment or installation showing somethnig that i can include that relates to the text
- E-mail ohotos to me
- Photos should be good quality pics that are nice and cler and nice and close so the object of interest fills the frame.

I wont promise i will include all photos but i will try to incorporate some into these documents.

Damn i wish i took pictures when i installed my sub an amp.. I have put the amp on a custom made mounting board and secured that to the side of the boot on the (outside) of the boot lining. Looks pretty good and is a nice place to mount an amp.

Oh well mabe next time. Ive only taken a picture of the finished result so thats not much help is it..

hey pyroay can i hook up a 4 channel amp to my stock speakers to make them run better and leave the stock amp for the stock sub? Suggestions?

Certainly can. One of the biggest weaknesses of a stock system is the lack of power fromt he headunit.

I'd run rears from headunit
fronts from 2 channels of the amp and the sub from the other 2 if it's a 4 channel smp...

Do you know what power rms they put out (the stock speakers) someone suggested an alpine 4 channel v pwoer amp for around $300 are there any one from jaycar that would suit my needs? Can i hook up the old amp (stock one to the stock sub to give it more power?

Thanks heaps for the help

Speakers dont produce power they use it. I assume you mean what power does the headunit provide and the answer is around 10rms x 4.

What power will the stock speakers handle?
it depends on what frequency you cross them over at but they sound a lot better with 30rms from an external amp than they do from the headunit

Jaycar Amp
STOCK-CODE: AA0420
2 x 80rms or
1 x 200rms
Cost $150 approx

Would be ideal for eith er the front stage or bridged to run a sub and is probably around twice the power output of the factory sub amp


For approx $20 more you could grab a 4 channel and run fronts with 50rms and sub with 160rms

Jaycar Amp
STOCK-CODE: AA0422
4 x 50rms or
2 x 50rms + 1 x 160rms
Cost $170 approx

Thanks heaps for the info
Could i use the 4 channel amp to run the four speakers and the stock amp to run the sub OR should i have the jaycar amp running two speakers and amp and have the stock amp running rear speakers?
Sorry bout all the questions i just know that u r the guy to talk to bout audio stuff. thanks

You can go that way. I dont see a lot of benefit in amplifying the rear speakers from an external amp in your situation.. Its not that hard to hook it up though so give it a go both ways...

It is also simplier to only use one amp but if you have them both you might as well play around with it..

Thanks for all the help pyroay i just wanted to get a cheap solution (for now) to get some better sound out of my speakers, so will probly just go for the four channel jaycar amp and power the front off it and either the sub or the rears aswell. Once again thanks heaps for your insight on the situation. Sorry for posting heaps of questions on your tutorial
Anyway time to start working so will hopefully get me an amp.
Cheers Dyl

Will the amp AA0422 50wrms x 4 fit into my boot where the stock one is??
Also is it easy to hook it up to the speakers?
I will try not to ask anymore questions as i am proberly anoying you now but thanks for the help.

Not sure dimensions are on www.jaycar.com.au just enter the product code..

Yes it's easy to connect

Funny thing, i was just looking on the Rock Fosgate website and checked out their mono blocks. It says that they are 90db A weighted. What does this mean and is it measure on a different scale or something.

Cheers

No Rockford fosgate are very conservative in all their weightings, i would say those ampswould test out to be well over 100db "A" scale weighted.

Ok I have been given a 4chan sony xplode 500w amp I was told I could run 2x 1200w max 350w @4ohm +2 6x9 250w 4ways Is this true,& HOW do I hook it up ? there is a thred on amps but it dose not tell you how to hook them up .

2 x 1200max means very little rms power could be anything from 200rms to 600rms per channel.

350rms sounds about right.

Amp is pretty straight forward to connect, firstly it should come with a manual telling you how to connect it all but if not
Power to the power or + terminal
Earth point on the car to the -'ive
Remote turn on or trigger wire from the headunit goes to trigger input on the amp, this tells it to turn on.

Then connect te speaker +'ive and -'ive
then RCAs input ad your done.

OK then Is it posable to link 2 amps to 1 pre out on the hu.& how.

pyroay I read your tech on stereo gear, not too bad a read.

Just a note on the Amplifiers. My understanding of "All frequencies" is white noise not pink noise. At least thats what I remember from my electronic eng days at uni.

Pink noise is all frequency's (same as white noise) but has a stronger bottom end emphasis and is normally what is used for RTA'ing.




You need a splitter 1RCA into 2. Do not buy a cheap one, they are a very common source of introduced noise into a system but something reasonable should cost between $8 - $14ea...

Learn something everyday

yeah my stinger ones costed $13 each at jb hifi.