I'm minutes away from jumping off this cliff. The amp seems straight forward - an 8-wire RJ-45 "control" cable then 7 outputs to the various speakers.
1) does anyone know the pin-out for that RJ-45 control cable, it's only 8 wires.
2) are the speakers actually good, are they simply under-amped like 99% of other factory systems?
3) do I just rip & replace (speakers & amp). The front door enclosures are very well done (6.5" bass, 3" mid). rears are same 3" mids. Center, IDK. They say there are 7 speakers...
There is plenty of room where the factory amp is to stack at least 2 Alpine or similar amps. The rear plates where the 3" mids are mounted will easily accommodate a 5.25" if not a 6.5" coaxial. The doors will support a set of 6.5" components (separate tweets) or a set of 3-way components like the Focal KRX3 with the 6.5", 3", 1" speakers.
Just looking for thoughts. BTW my stereo guy during the radar install found that there is a cover panel over the passenger foot well (looks like where the pedals would mount if it were a RHD car) - he said its deep enough behind the paned to easily build a box with an 8" sub and there would be no loss of room - in other words he could use the same cover panel in the same location and you would never know there was a sub up there. I hate pulling out a "premium sound" system, but I prefer to hear my music. Sure I'll add 30-40 pounds to the car. I'm sure I can stack on enough MSO CF goodies to compensate
