2001 cl

-----> i have a stock bose system...what can i do to upgrade the sound? do i have to gut the whole thing?

 

What's your budget?

 

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this is prolly the first question you want to ask your self....

 

just whatever i can do to upgrade the sound...do i have to gut the car? do the bose speakers suck? afterall, they are stock. what about the bose 6 cd chngr deck? what will increase the quality of sound in the cl? thnx

 

um..
you didnt answer the question....

how much are you willing to spend, our ansewers will depend on that.

but the short answer is to replace the head unit, and all teh speakers... and add a subwoofer.

 

Any Aftermarket deck will comes usually preamped, automatically giving you better sound out of the stock system, if thats whayt you want, then just get a quality aftermarket deck:

1. Alpine
2. Pioneer
3. Kenwood
4. Clarion

Also, i would get an mp3 player since you lose your stock cd changer, and if you burn 1 mp3 cd, you can fit over 100 songs..so its like a changer....

 

good call G-UNIT

start out with a better HU, then add an amp and a sub if you'd like. Down the line, if you want to have an overall good sound system, make sure to upgrade the speakers later and get a new amp for the speakers as well. But for now, just get a new Head Unit, a sub, and an amp

 

what is the head unit gonna look like when the stock bose is stripped? the company i took it to said there is no kit for the 3.2cl, now what?

 

custom kit

 

i believe the kit for the 2nd gens is the metra dash kit... read teh faq i think its in there.... or search thats been discussed many a time

 

does anyone have a pic of the dash kit for a 2001 cl? Hobo says its a metra dash kit. thnx

 

The head unit is fine, and the amp isn't so horrible either (although it's only 12Wx4 into 4ohms). What screws things up are the ratty Blose speakers and the matching built-in EQ in the head unit.
I swapped the front speakers for Polk DX6 and the rears for Boston NX97. Perfect fit. I also connected a 4mH coil before each rear speaker and removed the tweeters from them, because I want all the highs to come from the front. Although it doesn't play quite as loud, the difference is astounding! It is so much more natural and articulate and lively. I do find that I need to turn the treble and bass down a few notches to smooth out the frequency response (to counteract the EQ), but it sounds great.
If you do a search either here or at Acura-TL.com, you'll find the way to bypass the EQ, but I don't think it's worth digging out the head unit....

 

go to linkmeup.com. they have crossover so the cl doesn't have to change hu or stock speakers. crossover is used so that u can add amp/subs/aftermarket speakers.

 

^this is not what a crossover does. a crossover is wired between an amp and speakers to direct certain freq. to the speakers that are designed to reproduce them, this has little to do with the factory unit.

for what its worth id just stick a new HU in and call it a day a middle of the road alpine one will run you ~200 and give you better processing and pre amped outputs than the stock unit could ever.

 

Don't listen to the dealer. A metra kit does exist and it's only about $20. I know because I have one.

 

pic of the metra kit...installed...

 

that head unit looks WEAK as fuck..

 

that's a $500 pioneer premier 850 and its one of the best head units i've ever owned.

the face folds out for a double din look.

 

its a great mp3 player
folds out

 

might look weak when not open, but when it is open its a beast

 

Yah, i dont have any open pics...maybe later...
I love it! and im usually an alpine guy...