What ICE to get for my convertible?

[ImysE30]

Getting a well earned bonus at the end of the month so decided it's time to get a good sound system in the convertible. At the moment, it's got a JVC CD player, Kicker 5.25" speakers in the front and some crappy speakers in the rear.

Basically got a budget of around £500-£600 to spend. Input on what sort of sub's, amp's and component speakers to get would be great. Don't want to go too overboard, just something that will sound alright.

I've been looking at Vibe and Audiobahn, any other decent brand's? Sub box will probably have to be custom made as convertible boots are awkardly shaped, plus i've got 2 electric motors so eats up even more space.

Thanks in advance
Imy

[sati]

vibe are good , audiobahn just cheap crap (alway get complaints about sub's blowing) , the kicker's wont they fit in the rear? and get a desent set of components hertz are really good and cheap from £50 (caraudiosecurity.com) a nice 4 ch amp - kicker , jbl , kenwood , Directed Electronics , Infinity , will deal with the door spekers , and for a sub a 12" is the biggest you can fit with ease , and box will have to be a custom built or try an off the shelf angled box and powerful mono block amp and a 4 awg wiring kit and a distorbutor block. your looking at around £400 installed

[ImysE30]

Cheers for info Sati

My uncle has a Audiobahn set up in his E39 and sounds amazing so that's why i was thinking same set-up in mine. I'm thinking of going for Vibe set-up, aceraf on here had it installed in a Nissan Sunny and sounded foooking awesome, he did have 4 15" subs though . I'm going to take my car down today to see a installer and see how much he quotes me, he did my uncle's and charged him about £650 i think.

If anyone has any audio for sale, please PM me

[sati]

ive got an 18" with box , lol , no chance of it fitting in e30 , touring possible ;). too bad ur down derby oherwise i can do the install. hatch back cars are easy to good bass / SPL , i did 2 x 12" jbl gti in my e30 and its was maddness and they were under powered by 200watts each , now this set up is installed in my mates pug 306 and its madness he got 143.4 DB on the front screen, gets pulled over loads by the cops ,lol

[ImysE30]

Always seems to be the case mate lol. I've got a 15" Kicker sub and Alpine amp in my Honda Civic (new one), sounds crazy, too loud for the cops though .

[sati]

lol , i knw mate, you running it in a sealed box or ported? go ported with a custom box and start street bassing! lol

[ImysE30]

Its in a sealed box, got it off my cousin for free
Do you do custom install's?

[sati]

yep , i mainly deal with spl / street bass systems , Sq system take a lot of trail and error. i can build custom boxes sealed or ported (slot , tube ,s port , l port , t port) form around £40 , about the cost of an off the shelf boxes

[ImysE30]

Too bad your too farrr

[roley]

sorry for the hijack.
Sati how much for you to build a box for me for an alpine 1542 dual coil box capacity needed 99.5 litres with a 4"port 22" long . i have built my own but cant stop it rattling or bouncing

[secondtimelucky]

sorry for the hijack.
Sati how much for you to build a box for me for an alpine 1542 dual coil box capacity needed 99.5 litres with a 4"port 22" long . i have built my own but cant stop it rattling or bouncing

Stop moaning Martyn, yours sounds sweeet

[sati]

lol , the box or the car ;) ,alpine 15" type-r sub. make the box out of at least 3/4" mdf, what tunning fq you after? , 3.51 cuft, i need to know your maxium Height , lenght , width , dept and tunning fq then i can work a box for you.

[roley]

both mate its to in a touring h16 inch width and depth not worried dont use boot . Tuning not sure i listen to a lot of hip hop r and b and dance hall reggae . Must be deep street bass

[sati]

this box is going to be around the 40hz mark , is this wat you after? i like to tune my boxes lower to around 20hz -35hz , going of that you need a 4" port by 31.6inches which will cum in around 25hz mark , but this will have to around 7.4cuft. , but let me know the size's and the fq and i will run a few test and post pics up also are you running it at 750 watts rms? as this will effect the output readings.

[sati]

ok cool mate , i was think of an salloon , you want the box to sit at the same height as the back seats? 16inch height? seems quite short as your baffle will be weak in the middel once the hole for the sub is cut out.

[roley]

i am running a vibe 1200 w mono block with two 1 farad power caps . My mates neighbours hate me cause it shakes their windows and lights at half gain . Sorry if this is a bit vague but listening to it all the time i have got to used to it and want to change it

[ImysE30]

I'm thinking of going with a vibe set-up, what is that amp like?

[roley]

i know its going to be tight but windows not tinted yet

[roley]

cant fault vibe amps abused it for over a year with no problems at all

[ImysE30]

What sub(s) are you running off it? I'm thinking of going all vibe, monoblock amp and two 10" vibe slick subs in custom box

[roley]

1 15 inch alpine dual coil about 3 years old and well abused. He you go with vibe subs use the vibe box a mate of mine stop a pair of 12 i a e36 cab and they kick

[ImysE30]

You like to abuse don't ya
I've got a 15" Kicker in my Civic with Alpine amp, not abused though

[roley]

abuse is the only way to go with subs

[sati]

yep , then you know how good of a sub it really is ;) i got a really old 12" jbl sub only 125rms in a stupidly large ported box which i made out of off cuts of wood,lol , and its been abused hard! and i paid £30 for it about 3-4yrs ago , the sub cone is holding on with tape and gule and i runned it well over 125rms playing "Bass , I Love You" and still it dont want to give up! you can smell the coil burning up and hitting the magnet but still plays fine. i manged to blow a another old jbl sub a GT3-14" 300watts rmw , 2400watts peak , i runned it at 500rms for few hrs and it took the beating then once i played a few custom slowed tracks , it took up smoking! and it was dead. but still got it and it still works when it wants 2,lol, but dont go for FLI subs i ve blown 2 aready,lol

[roley]

for bass it will only be alpine from now on . I will be upset when it eventually gives up .

[sati]

lol , alpine are good not the best , an orion hcca 15" will hammer the bass home for good and only £25 more then the type-R with power handling of 2000 Watts RMS / 4000 Watts Peak and with a Total Travel Of 4”a peak to peak it can move sum serious air and if you blow it you can just re cone them

[roley]

Sati the current box sizes h16 w34 d18 thats external sizes using 3/4 inch mdf

[sati]

box size: 3.75 cuft with the port size you said 4" wide 22" long the box will be tuned for 38.35hz , if you make the port lenth smaller by 3" it will play at 40hz and you will gain 0.10 cuft.

[secondtimelucky]

Sati the current box sizes h16 w34 d18 thats external sizes using 3/4 inch mdf

AKA fooking huge

[sati]

thats not huge really , 6.3 cuft is huge or 10cuft! (wall system's)

[secondtimelucky]

thats not huge really , 6.3 cuft is huge or 10cuft! (wall system's)

Ok well it looks huge in the back of his touring

[sati]

lol , wat else is the extra space for? , not for shopping that for sure.

(2x18")
(6x 15" orrion hcca's) ive been in this its totaly maddess!


that is wat i call bass!

[roley]

I want those 18s
dear santa i have been a good boy this year please can i have a pair of lms 18s for xmas i promise to abuse them every day

[ImysE30]

Fooking hell
I want those

[sati]

i want 2 pairs of them , 4x18 in an e30 , there goes the windows.