Some of you were asking to see my install so here we go. Its been a long work in progress but I think I'm done for a little while. However I will be replacing my rear speaker amp when I find the one I want (Arc Audio XXK-2050). I don't have a garage because I live in an apartment. So its been tough getting some serious time to be able to take it apart and back together in the same day.
Here is the head unit. A Eclipse CD5000. Overall I like this head unit it has the best sound quality of any that I've had before. It doesn't have all of the tuning features of some of the others but I typically don't mess with that stuff anyway.
It has an Aux input so I wired in my MP3 player. It sounds pretty good.
I also installed the Sirius tuner I'll go into detail on that later.
At the battery I used a Kicker 0/1 GA multi amp kit. I really like this Kicker stuff its awesome quality.
Inside the cab. I drilled a hole in the floor for the wire. I used a liquid tight grommet to secure the wire.
Here are the distro blocks next to one of the XXK-2500's
You can see I made an "amp rack" out of Plexiglas. I thought this would be cool but it turned out to be hard to work with. The cheap stuff I bought at Home Depot cracked easily and thats why these didn't turn out too great. If I feel like replacing them I will use better stuff next time but for now it works.
Here is my first setup using different amps. I put the amp under the CDT crossovers. This is a set of the 560 crossovers and the 500 upstage blending modules.
Here is a pic with the covers off, it shows all the settings of the CDT crossovers.
MORE POWER!
Here we go with the new setup. You can see I moved the xovers to the bottom and put one of my XXK-2500's on the top. These amp put out 270x2 at 4 ohms and sound great. You can see in the above pic (amp rack) I made a cutout in the plexi to allow air to flow directly into the fan.
Here we are on the drivers side. You can see I ran the wires under the center console.
This is the rear fill amp. Its a little Alpine 35x2 that I plan on replacing.
And the other XXK-2500 I use bridged for the sub. It should be putting out about 1100 wrms at 4 ohms. Unfortunately the previous owner took off the badge.
Here are some pics with the seats back in place. I wish those Arc amps were about 4 inches shorter!
Here is the head unit. A Eclipse CD5000. Overall I like this head unit it has the best sound quality of any that I've had before. It doesn't have all of the tuning features of some of the others but I typically don't mess with that stuff anyway.
It has an Aux input so I wired in my MP3 player. It sounds pretty good.
I also installed the Sirius tuner I'll go into detail on that later.
At the battery I used a Kicker 0/1 GA multi amp kit. I really like this Kicker stuff its awesome quality.
Inside the cab. I drilled a hole in the floor for the wire. I used a liquid tight grommet to secure the wire.
Here are the distro blocks next to one of the XXK-2500's
You can see I made an "amp rack" out of Plexiglas. I thought this would be cool but it turned out to be hard to work with. The cheap stuff I bought at Home Depot cracked easily and thats why these didn't turn out too great. If I feel like replacing them I will use better stuff next time but for now it works.
Here is my first setup using different amps. I put the amp under the CDT crossovers. This is a set of the 560 crossovers and the 500 upstage blending modules.
Here is a pic with the covers off, it shows all the settings of the CDT crossovers.
MORE POWER!
Here we go with the new setup. You can see I moved the xovers to the bottom and put one of my XXK-2500's on the top. These amp put out 270x2 at 4 ohms and sound great. You can see in the above pic (amp rack) I made a cutout in the plexi to allow air to flow directly into the fan.
Here we are on the drivers side. You can see I ran the wires under the center console.
This is the rear fill amp. Its a little Alpine 35x2 that I plan on replacing.
And the other XXK-2500 I use bridged for the sub. It should be putting out about 1100 wrms at 4 ohms. Unfortunately the previous owner took off the badge.
Here are some pics with the seats back in place. I wish those Arc amps were about 4 inches shorter!