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For general information regarding boxes, JL has a nice explaination of the types of boxes on their site in the tutorials section. Here's a link to the box type explainations:
http://www.jlaudio.com/tutorials/magic/index.html
http://www.jlaudio.com/tutorials/magic/index.html
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Originally Posted by PopcornPlaya
Here's a few sites you can look at product lines at:
www.woofersetc.com
www.onlinecarstereo.com
www.cardomain.com
www.thezeb.com
www.ikesound.com
They have a lot of stuff at those, if you can't find anything you like at those, I guess I could giev you some more manufacturer specific sites. All of the above sites have a broad range of product available. You can also look at Crutchfield, should you choose, I personally wouldn't recommend it because they are overpriced, but they do have decent customer service, and provide tech support when installing, along with vehicle mastersheets and giving you dash kits and wiring harnesses for your equipment. Personally, the only think I see a point in giving you a harness for is the headunit, because if you're upgrading the speakers without amping them, you're defeating the purpose. I have never used an amp that gives you plug ins for speakers yet. There may be some, but the ones I've seen or used all have set screws for either bare wire or connectors, but no plugs.
www.woofersetc.com
www.onlinecarstereo.com
www.cardomain.com
www.thezeb.com
www.ikesound.com
They have a lot of stuff at those, if you can't find anything you like at those, I guess I could giev you some more manufacturer specific sites. All of the above sites have a broad range of product available. You can also look at Crutchfield, should you choose, I personally wouldn't recommend it because they are overpriced, but they do have decent customer service, and provide tech support when installing, along with vehicle mastersheets and giving you dash kits and wiring harnesses for your equipment. Personally, the only think I see a point in giving you a harness for is the headunit, because if you're upgrading the speakers without amping them, you're defeating the purpose. I have never used an amp that gives you plug ins for speakers yet. There may be some, but the ones I've seen or used all have set screws for either bare wire or connectors, but no plugs.
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Rep Power: 328 Why would you run an aftermarket speaker off of the deck? Unless it's a low wattage, or low end speaker, why even replace them? There's no point unless the speaker is blown to replace them if ran off of the deck. The only thing I'd run off of the deck would be rears, and I'd keep the stock ones in there, just to have some rear fill if you desire it. The best speakers ran off the deck are always going to be stock because they're designed for low wattage. And don't say "my headunit is 50X4" blah, blah, blah. You're gonna get around 12 watts true rms off of any deck.
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Rep Power: 0 definatley buy the HU harness, it makes connecting the HU so much easier. Instead of chopping off the OEM plug and figuring out which wires to match, the harness allows you to match the wires by color while still leaving the OEM plug intact
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Rep Power: 328 Yes, get the head unit harness. It should come with stripped ends on one end. The plug plugs into the oem plug. The stripped ends are connected to the headunit's harness, matching colors up. You can cfonnect the stripped ends by soldering (the way I'd do it) or crimp on connectors, or trist on connectors. Don't just twist them together and cover them in black tape.
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