ok so im leaving for florida tomorrow early am and i start getting the car ready. so first order of buisness is the stereo. i recently put a aftermarket headunit in (a must for the TL owner) and by doing so lost the factory sub. so i put my own in ( a orion 10") well i needed the extra trunk space so i had to pull it out. so i started monkeying around and hooked my amp (infinity kappa 102a 100x2 or 300x1) to the factory sub for grins to see how it would sound. i didnt want to drive 20 hours with just the factory door speakers. well i turned the gain all the way down set the crossover point to 60hz and man that thing sounds a ton better than stockits a definite improvement over the factory amp. and the sub actually pounds pretty good. im sure i could turn up the gain a little bit too but for all you out there still using the factory sub i would suggest that you try hooking up a different amp to it.

 

oh awesome! that sounds like a good idea. my friend can hook me up w/ some amps. so this should be a very inexpensive mod. now do u run the rest of the speakers thru the stock amp and only run the sub thru the aftermarket amp?

 

all the speakers are off the headunit (till i get new door speakers)

 

What part of Fla are you visiting??

 

Thats cool, i tempted to try it. what impedance does the kappa amp run on? There are a quite a few 1 and 2 ohm amps out there to try.

Have you checked how hot the amp is getting under load?

Thanks

 

you have a long trip to go...GOOD thinking on that sound sys, do your thang!

Are you comming down here for our famous Spring Breack?!?...as i can see ACMAN24 is in a hoHotHOT spot. I'm 20minutes away.

 

he's goin to DisneyWorld

 

hey, excuse my ignorance, but the TL's come with a factory subwoofer? Because the CL-S doesn't. I was just curious

 

yeah the TL's have an 8in. sub in the middle of the rear dash.

 

hmmm, interesting...didn't know that

thanks

p.s. how does it sound?

 

haha, it sounds alright. pretty shallow though compared to an aftermarket sub, but it does the job if u couldnt be bothered, or if u dont have money for an aftermarket system. my case bein the latter. lol

 

Hey so u have ya factory speakers running of a aftermarket headunit,How does this sound?

 

from what he told me, it sounds pretty good, and way better than the stock headunit. he now has more control over the type of sound he wants to get as far as adusting the bass, treble, and even the EQ.