well for the past week or two I've been trying to peice together a DECENT BRAND NAME set up. My budget about 200 I went over a little but its all good. Here it is newbies the perfect affordable name brand set up

Alpine CDE-9843 $112+tax brand new from good guys


JL Audio 10w0, 4 ohms, $45 used off some dude on craigslist


Scorpion 10"box $34+tax brand new from good guys


JL Audio e1200 amp, $80 shipped from ebay


and plus wires, harness, dash kit, misc crap $65 or a little more i know before I got a harness and dash kit for 30 not shure the price now, and wires should only cost about 30 i THINK. these pictures just for references




total spent: $$350 to be safe

yup this is the best/most complete set up you can get for 350 bucks and I lucked out cuz I just started getting into beat and good guys is going outta business so I saved some money. if yall see any newbies that have no idea what to get please link them this thread. Thanks!

edit: I think thats all the extra stuff I need harness, dash kit, and wires but I still dont know what kinda wires I need so can someone recommend a perfect kit with all the wires I need thanks


Modified by FULLY_BUILT_NA at 8:28 PM 10/17/2005

 

I had Jl 10W0 and was less than impressed.

 

should be an ok system i have name brand set up as you
alpine 9851
jl 500/1
jl 10w6v2

 

Not a bad start, now just gotta get some door speakers.

 

the money could have been better spent on a system....that deck just carries the alpine name its power output and features are not good....a kenwood or pioneer in the same price range would put out better power, it only puts out 16x4, a kicker compvr would have been my choice on the sub with the small alpine m350 mono amp

 

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what he said.

i suggest pioneer or panasonic as the head unit. I used to be kenwood freak but i heard panasonic it just blew my mind away. I used to have w1 and w3 jl audio. they have crisp sound but not as loud as the comp vr. Those woofers take some good beatin. AS for the amp yea go with a mono amp. Good luck!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by drkblue_civic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the money could have been better spent on a system....that deck just carries the alpine name its power output and features are not good....a kenwood or pioneer in the same price range would put out better power, it only puts out 16x4, a kicker compvr would have been my choice on the sub with the small alpine m350 mono amp </TD></TR></TABLE>

:Flame ON!!:

Okay on what universe did you think he could do better for his budget!!!
What was done was to shop smartly. Lets review:
Deck $150-160 retail
amp $200-225
box $75
parts (dash kit,harness,amp kit,spk wire ) $100
Thats an avg retail cost of $525 !!!

I'm not some keyboard commando. I have been in the 12volt game for
a long while ( i'll give you a hint- cassettes were the rage like ipods and digital
music is today). His choices are PERFECT. The radio output is par with everyone
elses ( and No you can't tell the diff in 2 watts of output). Its statements like this
that have folks all confused and such when the meet me at my store. You owe
him an apology.

 

Personally I would have spent the money for the sub and amp/amp kit on some good quality front and rear speakers.

 

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:Flame ON!!:

Okay on what universe did you think he could do better for his budget!!!
What was done was to shop smartly. Lets review:
Deck $150-160 retail
amp $200-225
box $75
parts (dash kit,harness,amp kit,spk wire ) $100
Thats an avg retail cost of $525 !!!

I'm not some keyboard commando. I have been in the 12volt game for
a long while ( i'll give you a hint- cassettes were the rage like ipods and digital
music is today). His choices are PERFECT. The radio output is par with everyone
elses ( and No you can't tell the diff in 2 watts of output). Its statements like this
that have folks all confused and such when the meet me at my store. You owe
him an apology.</TD></TR></TABLE>Ditto all the above, for the money it's a pretty good set up, and that Alpine HU, for the price will walk all over its counterparts if anyone thinks not , show me a HU with the same "Key Features" and specs at that price, from an authorized dealer. 94

BTW I have been doing this since 8 track was the hot ticket.

 

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you sound like a man who would appreciate resonant engineering's xxx line of subs

 

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you sound like a man who would appreciate resonant engineering's xxx line of subs </TD></TR></TABLE>

Wow, who knew you were a mind reader. RE XXX 15 going in my 79 El Camino...should be intereting.