Stereo Musings

[Nsane1]

Overall, I like the stereo in the SRT, and a matter of fact, 2 stereo shops have said its the best stock system they have heard. Having said that, I think it needs a tad more bass. Here are a few tidbits from my search on a hands-on (haven't really paid anybody anything) search for stereo improvements:

1) The kickpanels are VERY delicate. I was having my V1 hardwired, and they were looking at how the car was put together, in taking the kick panel off, it cracked in their hands. So now they are buying me one, parts are hard to come by on the SRT. $100 lost there. I took a look at it, its pretty flimsy

2) The "subs" in the middle are only accessible by taking the whole centerpiece apart. I'm not that adventurous about that yet (see number 1). I did remove the grills, the torq screws, and noted the speaker won't fit out of teh opening. My goal was to find out what it looks like behind the speaker to determine what kind if JL would fit (infinite baffel, etc.).

3) The sub is under the passenger seat, haven't jacked with that yet. I'm gonna try a component change first, and see how that works.

If anyone has any experience with this, let us know!

 

[Joseph Houss]

I betcha you're the first one treading onto this territory! Keep us posted!

 

[Nsane1]

Will do, oh and when I said "sub uner the seat" I meant the amp. But you knew that....

 

[Nsane1]

PVO/Dodge never ceases to amaze me. I guess PVO forwarded my query to Alpine, and I got a note from them, how awesome is that? On my GTS, I tried to get alpine to help, and kinda couldn't get anywhere, talk about excellent vendor relations... You gotta thank Alpine too.

Here's what he said: The sub is in 6.5" in a custom enclosed space. The speakers are all 4 ohm. Everything seems to have been custom done vs just whatever they have in the parts bin thrown together (like the GTS). SOOOO, having said all that, changing components out won't work very well. If we wanna do this, looks like new amp, new enclosures, and new components...

Soooo, I think I'll be waiting for someone else to hack up their car, and push this down on the priority list.

Since I know this board is monitored, I gotta say I'm very happy with it, and I'm just a perfectionist, my GTS was converted to an 800 watt system that won a few awards, I don't think I need to do that kind of stuff with this car.

All THAT said, I can't hear the stereo @130 with the top down, so maybe i need to do some work!

Thanks for the awesome work guys!!!