Replacement Head unit

[S600VXR]

What double din heads unit have you fitted and what additional items did you need to ensure it worked well - ie: stearing wheel controls etc.

My orriginal head unit wont play with the amp setup
I have now, sound becomes very distorted as soon as you start turning it up above a wisper.
Running din converter leads off the HU speaker feeds to the rear where Im running an amp per set of speakers (3)

[anonymous-user]

There's a place on the same industrial estate as RapidGB that does all their audio; they've should know the cars pretty well so perhaps they'll sort you out? I think this is them: www.rmdaudio.co.uk/ they are part of the "Four Masters" network

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 11th October 18:10

[delmeekc]

You probaly know this already, the rear shelf speakers are fed via an amp in the boot on the left behind the trim, just incase that's why it sounds bad.

[S600VXR]

Ive already replaced all the speakers and run all new cabling to each of them from the 3 400watt amps mounted in the boot.

[anonymous-user]

Original head unit is a 2 ohm model - and I'm guessing that the new amps and speakers that you've used are 4 ohms - that will do it.....Modern units are 4 ohms.

Personally I've got a double din Alpine Unit which I can recommend.

[S600VXR]

gsxr750steve said:

Original head unit is a 2 ohm model - and I'm guessing that the new amps and speakers that you've used are 4 ohms - that will do it.....Modern units are 4 ohms.

Personally I've got a double din Alpine Unit which I can recommend.

Info sir info... perleeze!

[delmeekc]

Oh, it could be that you are putting an amplified speaker feed (speaker output from original head unit) into a pre amplified input on the new amp (that is only designed to see an un-amplified signal, low power low noise). Is the new amp design to take an amplified signal?

[S600VXR]

You have a point there as Ive used speaker cable to rca lead converters to feed the amps, they do come with high imput connectors so I suppose I could try feeding speaker wire to the high imputs and see what thats like however its only one side thats distorted with my orriginal head unit in there, tried another head unit with rca outputs as standard and it worksed fine...?

[delmeekc]

Defo try that, if it's on the amp then that's probably the answer, I hope..

[wolfracer]

S600VXR said:

You have a point there as Ive used speaker cable to rca lead converters to feed the amps, they do come with high imput connectors so I suppose I could try feeding speaker wire to the high imputs and see what thats like however its only one side thats distorted with my orriginal head unit in there, tried another head unit with rca outputs as standard and it worksed fine...?

just a thought, do your speaker to line converters have a potentiometer on them? (might just be a little screw) one could be set high and the other low?

[anonymous-user]

S600VXR said:

gsxr750steve said:

Personally I've got a double din Alpine Unit which I can recommend.

Info sir info... perleeze!

The Alpine unit that I have is called a IVA-W200Ri - excellent unit with really good iPod integration. It has been replaced with the newer IVA-W202R and the even funkier IVA-W505R.
www.alpine-electronics.co.uk/home/products/mobile-media-stations/iva-w202r/

You can see a picture of it installed in the following thread - there is also a picture of another members Kenwood double din unit as well.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=441710

[S600VXR]

Steve - did you have to purchase anything else to interface with the standard wiring connector at the back? (perhaps a PM might be more appropriate me thinks)...

[anonymous-user]

S600VXR said:

Steve - did you have to purchase anything else to interface with the standard wiring connector at the back? (perhaps a PM might be more appropriate me thinks)...

You have mail, sir!

[S600VXR]

Bearing in mind I only PMed you 2 minutes ago you must hold the world record for speed typing!!

Cheers for the info BTW.