Needing a good car speaker..

Diesel Truck · 05-15-2008, 02:16 PM

Looking for a good speaker to replace the the ones in a 99 Z71. The current ones are wore out.

I'm in a bit of dilemma. I was told that you can run a amp off the factory head unit. But, is it really worth it? Thinking about going with a complete new CD player while i'm at it..

whitetrash21 · 08-02-2008, 11:18 PM

are you refering to running the power source for an amp off of the head unit?? most amps draw enough juice that they need a dedicated power source from the batt to provide power.

as far as speakers go, cant help you there. i pretty much run what they gave me, except for the bass end

tracker954x4 · 08-02-2008, 11:38 PM

I had some Kennwoods in my '98. Don't remember what model they were. they sounded pretty good though.
I would go with a component setup with the tweeter separate from the rest of the speaker.

tinman22 · 08-03-2008, 12:14 PM

kenwood pioneer alpine. I have an inexpensive set of blauplunt in my suburban that sounded very good with a small amp. as far as using the stock head unit. if you try to use an amp off of that you will loose quality because you have to put a high level to low level inverter in line to convert the speaker wires to RCA outputs to go into the amp. they do teh job but quality and volume suffer a fair bit. some amps will take both speaker wire inputs or RCA but I dont know how well they work. have to do some homework.

Diesel Truck · 08-03-2008, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by whitetrash21

are you refering to running the power source for an amp off of the head unit?? most amps draw enough juice that they need a dedicated power source from the batt to provide power.

as far as speakers go, cant help you there. i pretty much run what they gave me, except for the bass end

I have a AMP kit for the amp. On a stereo you need the A/V jacks to send out the sound, factory radios (most) don't have that. I bought a hi/low converter that solved my problem...