Car stereo for my upcoming AMG! (1 Viewer)

[Mike Lenthol]

Steve, now I knew for sure that $2000 figure isn't right! So with a few mouse clicks...
http://www.edmunds.com/new/2003/merc...tml?id=lin0727
Appears a 6 disc glove box changer was a $400 option, and I'm sure you would be able to pick it up from a discount OEM parts warehouse at ~$300. And the wiring should be already in place. Just making sure you knew

 

[Leif Wall]

Phillip - Curious as to if you have a system in your vehicle. I have an 89 Ford Ranger and coincidentally use both JL and ID in it. 2 JL 15w3s and some ID Chameleon 6.5" components. I haven't heard too many good systems in Grand Forks.

 

[Steve Adams]

acutally I didnt, I read on the website, the canadian benz site, the option of cd player is more than that. here is the link.
http://www.mercedesbenz.ca/index2.cfm?LNG=E
opps it's 765 and the bose system is way more. but I love great sounding systems in my vehicles, I have yet to find a satisfactory oem stereo.

 

[Henry Carmona]

JL is great, but so are the IDQ's

IDQ's are designed for small enclosure and all ive heard are amazing!

Personally, Id choose IDQ over JL.

Id also choose Pioneer's HU's

 

[Steve Adams]

yeah, im flippin a coin on the hu, premier 940 looks good! i have experince with JL, that is what i have now, so im going to stick with them and mb quart speakers. stuff that i know sounds good, personal experience. but the head unit is still up in the air, right now i have a sony es, and im not happy with it.

 

[Philip_G]

Phillip - Curious as to if you have a system in your vehicle. I have an 89 Ford Ranger and coincidentally use both JL and ID in it. 2 JL 15w3s and some ID Chameleon 6.5" components. I haven't heard too many good systems in Grand Forks.

Yes, I have a pair of infinity reference series 10's (I blew both my soundstream reference 10's, oops. I would have these cheapo infinity's over the JL 10's I had awhile ago) driven by a soundstream reference 604, and a pair of ID coaxials driven by a SS reference 300, a buddy of mine is an image dynamics dealer down south, he hooked me up with the coax's
the chameleons are nice, VERY nice. Wish they had been in my budget at the time.
the system is in a sort of mess right now, I got rear ended like a month ago and everything in the trunk got broken loose, so the amps are kinda floating free, it even snapped the anchors on my sub box in half. But it works.
Oh the headunit is a JVC 770 I think is the model, it's a double din, so my options were limited.

 

[Leif Wall]

I got the Chameleons off of eBay. Another thing I like about them is that they're 2 ohms. I also have some IDQ 6.5" midbasses sitting around. Was originally gonna put them in my doors and have the Chameleons in some homemade kickpanels, but I discovered I suck at making kicks. I've got a Panasonic deck. Does everything I need it to and like the color changing thing at night. For amps I'm running the JBL 1200.1 and an MTX 6304. Had to replace my alt. (stock was 60amps, got a 190amp now)

I guess I may try and build a ported box, but then I won't be able to see out of my back window. A guy I talk with in western Minnesota (Middle River) had a good idea of a box with multiple ports that I could plug for when I'm using it for different reasons.

 

[Greg_R]

After listening to a/d/s, MB Quart, Focal, & Dynaudio, I ended up purchasing the component set from Adire Audio (supposedly equal quality, 1/3rd the cost). I say 'supposed' because the tweeter and x-over are shipping this week (midbass driver is awesome). I'm also planning on one of their Brahma sub drivers (IMO the best reasonably priced SQ sub driver for car audio). http://www.adireaudio.com for the driver info and this site has a good Adire forum. Oh yes... the Adire has excellent off-axis imaging (so it is ideal for door applications).