Sound System Upgrades

[rayan1910]

Those speakers in the parcel shelf look like they belong in a clock radio, the magnets are tiny. I remember having a look at them when I was mucking around with the spare wheel. I think that will be a good starting point, upgrade them first and see how that goes. I don't want to fit a sub if I can avoid it, and a couple of decent speakers up the back may make enough difference.

For sure, make sure you look at the sensitivity levels of the speakers because you definitely want to be able to hear them I think speakers with an amp and no sub is the best solution but is just too messy for this car especially since mine is a vert and not dd. Maybe if it was a dd I would do it. Try getting coaxials in the rear and see how it is.

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[Aus550]

I upgraded my stereo with focal stuff. Sounds great now.

I used;

Front - Focal K2 splits
Rear - Focal Coaxials
Sub - Focal 13" 33V2
Amp 1 - Focal 4x75wrms
Amp 2 - Focal 1.800wrms

- Factory amp was in the passenger side floor. (behind ya toes, not in kick panel)
- Power wire to battery can be run through grommet above factory amp
- Wiring diagrams on here have the right colour wiring to remove factory amp and rewire to RCAs

Just waiting on AudioControl matrix plus to be delivered to see if it makes some difference. I have to have the gains turned right down as there's some hiss at zero volume currently with gains turned up any.

 

[Polystang]

I upgraded my stereo with focal stuff. Sounds great now.

I used;

Front - Focal K2 splits
Rear - Focal Coaxials
Sub - Focal 13" 33V2
Amp 1 - Focal 4x75wrms
Amp 2 - Focal 1.800wrms

- Factory amp was in the passenger side floor. (behind ya toes, not in kick panel)
- Power wire to battery can be run through grommet above factory amp
- Wiring diagrams on here have the right colour wiring to remove factory amp and rewire to RCAs

Just waiting on AudioControl matrix plus to be delivered to see if it makes some difference. I have to have the gains turned right down as there's some hiss at zero volume currently with gains turned up any.

Can you give us a description or photo(s) of the new amp rewiring and how and where did you place the sub and it's wiring?
Thanks.

 

[Aus550]

Can you give us a description or photo(s) of the new amp rewiring and how and where did you place the sub and it's wiring?
Thanks.

Sure thing, here's the blow by blow.

- Bonnet release handle. Needle nose pliers to pinch two clips in the centre, it pops off pretty easy.
- lift upwards the panel beside the passenger seat (not the mustang one, the one covering the carpet.
- wiggle the kick panel out, has a few clips. A few minutes of gentle pulling and prying gets it out safely.
- I pulled the seat, let me run the amp wire clear of rcas.
- Seat has a couple of elec connectors at the front, unclip. 4 torx bolts and it's out.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25501

There's a wiring diagram in the link showing the colours of wires going to the factory amp. I cut the 8 wires providing the low level signal from the H/U to the factory amp off the factory connectors and soldered them to 2 sets of RCA cables going to the boot. With the seat out, I ran the power wire down the door side of the seat, and the RCAs about 300mm away down the middle of the floor. With this I have zero whine noise.

The remote turn on 12v I sourced from the loom going to the bootlid. You can carefully cut the tape back (this bit takes a while, the tapes bulletproof, and you're trying not to harm the wires inside) The reverse camera has a 12v feed, and I've spliced into that. I can't recall the colour, it's blue with ?? stripe.

The sub is in a 50L sealed box just behind the seats facing forwards. Amps on the back of it. Will get some photos soon. Inside the car, there's no change, all factory locations used. Even the K2 tweeter clipped into the factory A piller.

 

[Aus550]

Those speakers in the parcel shelf look like they belong in a clock radio, the magnets are tiny. I remember having a look at them when I was mucking around with the spare wheel. I think that will be a good starting point, upgrade them first and see how that goes. I don't want to fit a sub if I can avoid it, and a couple of decent speakers up the back may make enough difference.

I agree they suck, but the ridiculously tiny magnet would mean it's a neodymium magnet. They just do magnet stuff a lot better than the traditional ferrite type. It would of been interesting to hear if the standard stuff sounded any better with just the amp upgraded before I swapped out all the speakers.

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