Front ICE advice please - headunit + speakers

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:48 pm

hi

I am looking to re-do my touring interior in a couple of weeks so may as well sort everything while it's in bits.

I want a good little set up for the front only with a colour match on the headunit to the orange lights - nothing garish.

Budget around £300 for headunit and speakers and must fit in the OE style behind front kickplates.

Trawling through posts it seems there is a good value set of Infinity speakers with cross over for tweeters to be mounted in mirror plates. The ebay links were dead though - anyone able to help?

Recommendations and advice much appreciated

cheers, simon

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:39 pm

ah, found this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INFINITY-13cm-Ref ... 240%3A1318

is this decent?

cheers

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:49 pm

They are good but personally i would go with Vibe

. I've got Vibe component's fitted in my cab and they are very good.

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:02 pm

I would go with Focal polyglass as I have heard good reviews of them in France ( and it is French

).

I know for sure that the polyglass slims fit in the original positions as well as the tweeters in the original tweeter pods.

for the head unit i would go for Alpine as they are very well rated. Be aware though that some model don't illuminate amber. Some are amber though and look to be a good match. You can find the one with the proper illumination on the Alpine website.

Cheers / pierre

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:34 pm

take a look at alpine spr-13s mate, 300w and should fit straight in, amp them up and you'l have great sound, hit the bay and with the chnge you'll get a decent alpine head unit plus the orange lights will match up

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:41 pm

Bump wrote:ah, found this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INFINITY-13cm-Ref ... 240%3A1318

is this decent?

cheers

i've got those ones! i love them! they were about £150-£175 when they first came out

i'm going to get another set too

Post Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:50 pm

ive also got 5010cs's there ace

Post Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:28 am

chisel wrote:take a look at alpine spr-13s mate, 300w and should fit straight in, amp them up and you'l have great sound, hit the bay and with the chnge you'll get a decent alpine head unit plus the orange lights will match up

so these component type set ups - are they meant to be run with a sub bass in the back? looking at the alpine spec they don't go below 70hz, which is where your bass freqs live as I recall.

should know all this having a music studio and everything but i never did pay attention

so far this would appear a decent bog standard cheapo option that would be under budget :

Can direct the tweeters on these up from the kickplate:

http://www.caraudiodiscount.com/xtc52-2 ... 11662.html

And this basic Alpine headunit has amber illumination:

http://www.caraudiodiscount.com/cde102r ... 13640.html

comments welcome, cheers for the help

Post Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:42 am

i have focals in the front of mine, sound good