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With help from browsing this forum I installed a nice system in my Grand Marquise this Christmas. I spet two weeks working on it and then a tree fell on the car a week after I was finished and totaled it. I had owned the car twom months.
I went out and bought a Honda fit now and I don't want to add the heavy weight and power hungry setup I had in the Big Merc into the svelte fit. So I am Back to the drawing board.
For the last five years I have driven a Volkswagon Vanagon that had a fantastic stereo in it when I purchased it. To avoid buying all new equipment I went out to my old Van yesterday to investigate what was in it. I found a Nakamichi PA350 http://www.geocities.com/p9019/nakamichi/Brochures/PA-350_Pg02.html mpunted under the dash and a set of a/d/s component speaker mounted in the back. There is a set of a/d/s plate speakers mounted in the door. Firing up the system it sounded good and clear even though I am sure the battery is weak. The paper on the speakers looks a light grey as if it has faded with the years but the surrounds on the driver looked fine.
What I am considering is installing my new head unit into the fit. (alpine 9887)
Installing the a/d/s/ components into the front doors, and running them off the Nakamichi amp. I am very unschooled on active setup's, I last ran this unit in the merc with polk MOMO components with the passive crossovers. I am assuming that running these components actively would mean dedicating one channel eack of the amp to the MID, Mid , Tweet, Tweet.
In addition to that I would run one sealed 8" woofer in the hatchback area off another amp.
My questions are:
Would this setup of two channels up front and a sub in the back sound better (in your opinion) to running four channels in the four doors with passive crossovers?
The a/d/s speakers are old but sounded pretty damn fine to my ears, can they handle being independantly driven by the Nakamichi amp? Would this damage the amp or speakers?
I will definately look further into the technical side of hooking this up if it sounds like a go, I was just wanting some opinions to those with experience in the active side of things and hopefully someone who has exoerience running these older type components. Am I just asking for trouble?
Thanks a million!
With help from browsing this forum I installed a nice system in my Grand Marquise this Christmas. I spet two weeks working on it and then a tree fell on the car a week after I was finished and totaled it. I had owned the car twom months.
I went out and bought a Honda fit now and I don't want to add the heavy weight and power hungry setup I had in the Big Merc into the svelte fit. So I am Back to the drawing board.
For the last five years I have driven a Volkswagon Vanagon that had a fantastic stereo in it when I purchased it. To avoid buying all new equipment I went out to my old Van yesterday to investigate what was in it. I found a Nakamichi PA350 http://www.geocities.com/p9019/nakamichi/Brochures/PA-350_Pg02.html mpunted under the dash and a set of a/d/s component speaker mounted in the back. There is a set of a/d/s plate speakers mounted in the door. Firing up the system it sounded good and clear even though I am sure the battery is weak. The paper on the speakers looks a light grey as if it has faded with the years but the surrounds on the driver looked fine.
What I am considering is installing my new head unit into the fit. (alpine 9887)
Installing the a/d/s/ components into the front doors, and running them off the Nakamichi amp. I am very unschooled on active setup's, I last ran this unit in the merc with polk MOMO components with the passive crossovers. I am assuming that running these components actively would mean dedicating one channel eack of the amp to the MID, Mid , Tweet, Tweet.
In addition to that I would run one sealed 8" woofer in the hatchback area off another amp.
My questions are:
Would this setup of two channels up front and a sub in the back sound better (in your opinion) to running four channels in the four doors with passive crossovers?
The a/d/s speakers are old but sounded pretty damn fine to my ears, can they handle being independantly driven by the Nakamichi amp? Would this damage the amp or speakers?
I will definately look further into the technical side of hooking this up if it sounds like a go, I was just wanting some opinions to those with experience in the active side of things and hopefully someone who has exoerience running these older type components. Am I just asking for trouble?
Thanks a million!