Car Audio by Jake 3: It Twerks

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 03/29/2016 at 20:12 • Filed to: None

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I was gonna have a big capacitor but it caught fire because old and likely knockoff. The Memphis is driven by the JL amp, and the Sony drives my interior speakers (stock door speakers on a HPF, Kicker CS series 6x9s getting the full range). Positive power cable sneaks under the rear seat to the battery, and that’s the only wire that I had to run anywhere. The whole shebang is powered by that little dealio next to the JL. That’s a cupholder 12v outlet splitter wired to the Remote power and ground that turns on a MPOW bluetooth dongle connected to a 3.5mm -> RCA adaptor. I turn on my car and the remote wire energizes, turning on both amps and the MPOW which seeks out and connects to my phone. All I ever do is play music off my phone wirelessly on my Pioneer, and I have all sorts of equalization options available on Android so it’s really all I need.

Oh, and it sounds rather good. I never did any balancing with the Sony as far as forward/back fade goes, but it nails it. The high pass filter keeps my door speakers from ever bottoming out, the Sony has nowhere near enough power to overpower the Kickers in the rear deck, and the JL is able to beat that Memphis in my shitty sealed box to within an inch of its life. It won’t win competitions, but it goes loud enough to easily give me a headache and sounds fantastic at moderate volume. Should be perfect for my commute.

My next step is to buy some MDF and make a custom-sized ported enclosure (going to try this out. My sealed enclosure is peaky as hell probably because I can’t into carpentry) for the MTX that will also hold the amps and such in a but more aesthetically pleasing manner. Right now they’re just wood-screwed to the spare tire cover board thing.

-this space for rent- > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/29/2016 at 21:09

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I got tired of the JBL Symphony pile of garbage in my 4Runner so I bypassed the factory amp with an 700watts of awesome.

With kickers in the doors and a JL sub in factory location. It turned out pretty nice.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > -this space for rent- 03/29/2016 at 21:32

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OH MAN that amp looks nice. I am teh jelly

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > -this space for rent- 03/29/2016 at 22:05

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3RD gen?

-this space for rent- > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 03/29/2016 at 22:23

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4th

-this space for rent- > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/29/2016 at 22:26

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$230 on amazon. It’s amazing how cheap stuff is now compared to the 90s the last time I installed an amp.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > -this space for rent- 03/29/2016 at 22:50

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Are there places to put an amp in a 4th gen because 3rd gen really doesn’t have anywhere.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > -this space for rent- 03/29/2016 at 22:54

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I had some RF speakers in my last car, they were pretty damn good, much better than the Pioneers I could’ve gotten for the same price.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > -this space for rent- 03/29/2016 at 22:56

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What head unit are you using that has sub/front/rear RCA outs?

-this space for rent- > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 03/29/2016 at 23:01

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I mounted it under the driver’s seat. Just barely enough room. There’s the area where the stock amp lives above the pass side rear wheel well, but you’d have match it’s size and not intrude on the sub enclosure.

There are amp bypass harness available on the Internet’s that make tying into the factory wiring pretty painless.

-this space for rent- > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 03/29/2016 at 23:13

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Pioneer AVH-P3400BH. Amp is sending power to 9 of the original 10 speaker locations. I didn’t think there was any way to not have the center channel sound terrible so I left it disconnected.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > -this space for rent- 03/30/2016 at 00:09

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Mmm. Love me some Pioneer. Forever sad my FH-X720BT doesn’t fit in my Buick :(