ade73

Couldnt give 2 $h1ts about an ipod, dont want or need one. The Alpine plays mp3's and thats fine by me.

little Chris

Try Infinity Speakers or JL Audio. Both sound fantastic but depends on your budjet I suppose. I love the look of the Infinity speakers some come in a funky Green or White, depending on what Model/range you go for.

http://www.jlaudio.com

http://www.infinitysystems.com

Rockford fosgate are not to bad but stay clear of the square subs they do, yes they push more air making them LOUD but the sound quality is rubbish

http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/home/

Paper Lawyer

Depends on what you consider is a "decent" set up and what constitutes "plenty" for the door speakers. The latest Alpine units produce something like 23W RMS so a 50W RMS speaker is not going to be driven to its potential (most, if not all, of the front speakers you will be looking at will have 50 W RMS as a min). Provided that for your style of driving (e.g. not high speed roof down stuff) can accomodate less than 23W RMS per speaker then that's Remember that running the HU at max output is not going to be sonically great.

I didn't upgrade my system to sit at traffic lights and play phatt (is that how they spell it?) tunes, merely to be able to drive at 90 with the roof down and to be able to hear my music strongly above the wind noise. You can't do that with an Alpine HU and stock speakers, you may be able to do so with uprated front speakers, but the limitation will be that HU internal amp.

To be honest I think the best way to gauge is for there to be an audio demo on the Sunday morning of MM1. You can listen to various set ups then. I think StevenM's set up will be a good example of the benefits you can get from a decent HU and a comparatively modest speaker upgrade spend. I am still waiting for a replacement tweeter from the States before I can demo mine

Ruckus

Rockford dont make square subs, and never have.
Are you thinking of Kicker?

But yes New RF subs are not that great at SQ, there old stuff... well thats a diffrent story.

Paper Lawyer

wasn't that a kicker sub installed in the between seat compartment on the Electronics forum

Paper Lawyer

You may want to consider bass shakers as a cheap way of getting some rumble in your seats rather than a sub. Mikey K has them, as do various US owners. Have a quick search.

zero_to60

to be honest I rarely have the stereo on..........VTEC is best

Paper Lawyer

except when sitting on the M6!

mikey k

Panasonic/Blaupunkt BLJ150

I tried one - if you fit it under the seat the speaker cannot move the air and the port is obscured. Wiring loom is a bit crap as well! I ended up with bass shakers in the seat pockets and the interchanger under the seat.

Could put it in the boot!?

little Chris

Sorry being 'fick' again, yes it was kicker, they really are Shite, no quality to them at all.