Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 05:28 pm, by: Tom Nicol(Goosemonger)
At the moment my sound system consists of a sony 10 stacker cd player, tuned into the stock FM radio, playing through stock front speakers and the pioneer 6x9s sitting ON the parcel shelf. No sub or amp at all.
This is what the car had when I bought it, so naturally, now, it's finally gotten to me and I'm gonna do almost the whole system over. Problem is I don't have money coming out my ears. So it will be a budget system.
I've got a fairly good idea of what I want, but I'm just after some other suggestions/recommendations/ideas.
What I plan on getting at first:
Head Unit - Eclipse CD5425 http://www.eclipse-web.com.au/cd/cd5425.html 5 or 6" Inch splits (maybe MTX or any that sound decent for around $200-$350) Get mounts or cut up the parcel shelf and bolt those back speakers IN.
Then a while after, when I've saved up a bit more kablingi
Jaycar Amp (5 channel I'm thinking) Jaycar Sub (in parcel shelf) Then depending on how well the 6x9s go, I might replace them.
The head unit is $350 installed or about $295 just in a box for me to put in. I think it's best I get it professionally put in.
Installing a 1DIN size stereo in a Soarer is a piece of piss. Might take you an hour or so, connecting all the wires and stuff. I assume you have aftermarket stereo in there so the speaker wires would have been recognised by now. The stock speker wires are all white!
Friday, April 21, 2006 - 08:41 am, by: Will Adams(Draco)
Tom, you mentioned that you're just running the CD player through the stock headunit. If this is the case, wiring it up will be as simple as anything. Best thing to do is the following (if you wanted to do it yourself. I assume it's just the tape deck (with no cd player unit)
* Go to SuperCheap Autos (or equivalent) and get a harness for a 1992 Camry. * These will plug in directly to the plugs that are connected to the back of the headunit. * Hook the wires up on the stereo to the harness. * All you then need to do is remove the old headunit from the cage, hook up the new unit to the cage, and then simply plug it all in.
The Camry unit uses the same locations for all the wires to allow for complete installation using the existing wiring of the car. Lot more professional than trying to chop it all up, and start again.
Friday, April 21, 2006 - 08:45 am, by: Mark Paddick(Sparks)
The best speakers should be in the front. Rear speakers do not need to be anything special. Standard factory 6" (without sub fitted) are fine.
I would be looking for a head unit with no power amps. The amps in that one are pathetic at 14WRMS/channel. The factory 4 channel amp can double that and into 8 ohms still has 24W and virtually zero distortion; much lower than into 4 ohms (factor of 8 to 10 times better). The unit may have a crossover function where the inbuilt amps can be used for the treble speakers and external amps for bass. In this case use the factory speaker wiring for the (8 ohm) bass speakers and new wiring for the tweeters. (8 ohm speakers have the same output for half the current of 4 ohm speakers so factory wiring will be adequate and the joins/plugs etc in the factory wiring will be more audible in the treble channel).
Use the 2 x 150 W Jaycar amp with the Jaycar sub. The sub has two 4 ohm voice coils. Feed each one with one channel of the amp. Then use either a factory 4 channel amp (or two with crossovers) or the 4 x 100W Jaycar amp. I use two factory amps.
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