Best Car Audio

[vivaespana]

IM GOING TO BUY A CAR AUDIO SYSTEM FOR MY VERSA WHAT DO YOU THINK I SOULD GO WITH? ANY ADVICE?

[Clipsed]

It all depends on what kind of sound you are looking for, and how much you are willing to spend.

My best advice would be for you to go down to your local car audio shop, and no I dont mean BB or CC, and take a listen to the setups they have. They most likely will also have demo cars that you can listen in on too.

But to help you out, you need to be a lil more specific and lose the caps lock.

[vivaespana]

Well i mean like brand what you recomend like sony?

[Clipsed]

well if I name the best, I am sure you are not going to know who they are for one, and not be able to afford it secondly. This is why my question to you was what do you want to change in the car or add, and what is your budget, that way I can recommend something to you that is in your price range.

And whatever you do, do not buy Sony car audio equipment.

[vivaespana]

Ow ok, well i have 400 dollars. what do you think i can get for that? i would like to get some subwoffers.

[Clipsed]

well if you just want some subs for right now I would recommend the Kicker CVR shallow mounts. 2 10" drivers would be nice, and a decent amp to power em and a box installed would run ya about that.

[vivaespana]

Ok thanks for your help. one more question do you think its stupid going to best buy for it or you think i get a better price if i just go toa car audio shop?

[Clipsed]

well if BB has a sale and you take the add to a shop, I bet the shop 90% of the time will beat the price. I really don't like the way BB and CC do car audio, and there markup on some of their equipment is unbelievable!

[vivaespana]

Thanks for the help.

[Kolk1]

What ever you do, dont copy my sig, take it into a shop, and say "I want this"

Just messin with ya.

400 can get you either, and ok sub/amp setup, or an ok Headunit and door speakers.

Kinda depends on where you want to start. Stock Mids/highs with some added Bass, or Aftermarket head unit with some clear tunes. Kinda up to you.

[ace rothstein 81]

How about for me, Clipsed? After talking to a local shop, I've kind of budgeted myself between $1000 and $1300. Obviously, I guess, I want to improve every aspect. Just for the sake of this conversation, I'll tell you that the guy I talked to recommended to me some Memphis subs and speakers and a Kenwood head unit. As for more specific info on those, I don't really know.

[Clipsed]

Memphis is pretty good, Question is how much did he want for the set-up? My recommendation would be an Eclipse headunit. And if you like the features and can afford the close to $500 headunit, it is one of the best as it has an 8volt preout for your amps, meaning less gain on your amps, and less strain on em. But for that price you also come navigation ready on that headunit.

Speakers, you could get some nice MB Quart components up front, and some decent 6 1/2's for rear fill.

As for your low end, you could also go with some JL 12W6's or 10W6's, your call on which size or one or two, and get some JL amps. This should put you in that price range, and give you a really clean crisp high and mid and a hard hitting clean low end.

[HareBrained]

Memphis is pretty good, Question is how much did he want for the set-up? My recommendation would be an Eclipse headunit. And if you like the features and can afford the close to $500 headunit, it is one of the best as it has an 8volt preout for your amps, meaning less gain on your amps, and less strain on em. But for that price you also come navigation ready on that headunit.

Speakers, you could get some nice MB Quart components up front, and some decent 6 1/2's for rear fill.

As for your low end, you could also go with some JL 12W6's or 10W6's, your call on which size or one or two, and get some JL amps. This should put you in that price range, and give you a really clean crisp high and mid and a hard hitting clean low end.

Note: Not all Eclipse head units have 8V preamp outputs, and not all amps can handle 8V preamp inputs. This is one reason you want to deal with a reputable shop. They'll know to check such things. I totally agree that the stronger the signal, the better the noise rejection. But balanced lines are definitely preferred.

I like to use the stock speakers for rear fill. Typically, if you're running the rears as "fill only", you'll be send a lower level (quieter than then fronts). You could use the amp in the head unit for this. The JL Audio 5 channel actually has 100Wx2 (front), 25Wx2 (rear), and 250Wx1 (sub) for facilitate this thinking. In competition systems, a bandpass xover is used to limit the frequencies between 1k & 7kHz. But this is getting really picky.

For the fronts, RainBow, Quarts, Focal, Dynaudio are all good. If you need less expensive, Infinity's are good.

For subs, select the sub based on the type of music you listen to. Ported boxes tend to be more "slammin'" (rock, rap) while sealed boxes tend to be more controlled (jazz, classical). And not all subs work well within all boxes. The box must be matched to the sub. These are generalizations and there will be exceptions. I like Boston, Alumapro, Dynaudio, JL but nothing bigger than 10" and I prefer 8" subs (although I must admit to have a 12" Dynaudio in my basement but that's a special case). BTW, the quality of today's subs are such that a single good quality 10" in the right box can out pound a pair of poor quality subs in an off-the-shelf box. And lastly, I've never been a fan of Kicker subs but I haven't listened to them is a few years.

[hof]

Its been awhile since I messed with Speakers and such. I was wondering if SPL was a good Amp brand, I still have two older ones that werent used to much or pushed to hard. Should I just keep those to power 2 12s or is there something better along those lines. Nothing to outragous in price.

[jquick]

anyone know how i can keep the steering wheel bluetooth and audio controls working with a new head unit
Modified by jquick at 4:57 PM 6/28/2007

[ace rothstein 81]

Man, I never really even thought about that...

That's a good question.

[Clipsed]

yes it is possible, they make adapters to be able to do this, but I do not believe they have released one for the Versa yet.

[Demonspawn]

yea that is why i have not changed out the head unit i bought the car for the steering wheel control

[ace rothstein 81]

I'll have to rethink my changes because of that. I like the seamless look of the factory unit and I definitely want to be able to use the steering wheel controls. I was worried that if I got a nice sub and some good speakers that the factory head unit would just be holding them back. Hopefully it won't hurt the overall sound too much.

[Clipsed]

wait a couple more months, I am sure they will have a P&P unit, but if you are a wiring nerd like me, you could just buy a universal unit, and rewire it with a switch, and be able to use the factory radio controls with the factory radio, or the aftermarket radio, this being since the car is financed and if anything happens flip the switch and it is back to normal for the factory radio!

[estover]

You could add a Rockford Fosgate 3SIXTY.2 or other type of SP to the stock head unit. I think that is what I am going to use for now. I really wanted to go with the G4 powered by Stretdeck. But dont want to lose the wheel mounted controlls or the factory BT. Toss in a couple nice component 6.5s in the front and rear doors driven with a nice amp or 2 and ta-da! Nice sounding system.

[HareBrained]

For future reference:http://www.pac-audio.com/produ...rfaceI've used their SWI-X in my Mini and it worked great. In fact, all 6 buttons weren't used in the stock set-up and I was able to program the unit to use all of them. Note that some of these interfaces do taut compatibility with Nissan but I don't know how the compatible the Versa is with previous implementations.

[M2Motoring]

memphis car audio products are great i have it in 3 of my cars =) the versa runs 1 12" sub and its plenty loud already

[Bubs daddy]

I've heard the Pioneer dual cones sound pretty good... Maybe a Kraco power booster, too.

[biggie]

The best componet speakers I've had or heard are MB Quart (look on ebay). I have them all around in my Vert and love them.

Memphis were pretty good as well.

Just to up my knowledge what are the sizes of the f/r door speakers in the Versa? (although I'll never change them)

[Kolk1]

Just to up my knowledge what are the sizes of the f/r door speakers in the Versa? (although I'll never change them)

6.5s all the way around.

[biggie]

6.5s all the way around.

Thanks. I think the sound is very good. Seems a lot like my '02 Pathfinder's system that I had. But the 8" sub is a good factory ugrade and seems to help, still playing with the settings for best sound.