@@ImNotADeeJay the government gets a cut of every car. Why do anything vehicles sold in America are made different. My wife's Honda fast idle sensor failed. They wanted to charge 1500 to repair it. But guess what, in Japan, they don't come with fast idle sensors. So they definitely want to make things difficult for people. My moms Cadillac has this plate cover and they wanted 80 bucks to remove it. My step-dad took a wire hanger and said fuck you. I will never buy mower vehicles unless a law demands it. It's cheaper to just replace a whole engine than what it costs to fix cars these days that somehow conveniently fail with thousands worth in repairs as soon as the warranty expires.
Implying that these material speakers are that outdated or unusual. They were still in most cars until after the 2000s as far as them being bad quality, you haven't heard vintage JVC Kenwood Marshall or Fosgates, they're better than average modern speakers
There are total shit, turn them up loud and they will tear themselves apart. I get it, you are the old vintage electronics hipster, but you are dead wrong about the old garbage, esp brands that were for the poor and shit back in the day. You list bad brands, that are on the cheap end to begin with lol
@@kavajamusic5411 Those cheap sony speakers will still outperform those cheap factory paper speakers, japan or not. The car was made in Japan, where do you expect the oem speakers to be from? My dodge has all US made factory audio.
Aftermarket one's had higher wattage, which may or may not actually matter, but I'm sure Vietnam makes decent stuff too. It's also a lot newer than the one in his old car. I do believe he could have tried tightening up the speakers and the rattling may have gone away.
@@kavajamusic5411 Naw, the original speakers on old honda's were where they cut corners, made of cereal boxes, was tragic, you would have never guessed they were made by honda, they were that embarrassing.
Proof it doesn't take much to vastly improve sound from many stock car audio systems. Even the "premium" systems use cheap speakers for the most part. Great vid!
Turncoat Tony I actually wound up staying through the whole video too. I'm not even interested in that radio but I just couldn't change the channel I was really interested in seeing how it turned out.
I'm considering changing out the speakers/head unit in a 2008 smart car I just got a few weeks ago (had 70k miles on it got it for about 4.2k)...so far I'm just using a 40Watt Bluetooth speaker paired with my phone and the stock radio(volume isn't bad on radio but Aux cord volume was very weak and would cut out At max volume 24)...will I need to take out door panel in a 2008 smart for two Or can I just get them out does anyone know..it's the Passion for 2 not a brabus
Yeah I got a chevy impala limited lt 2015 old body style from 06-13, i had to unscrew few screws but thank god it was a plug and play with the GM adapter rather than splicing in it
That's how everyone start to mod his car... One more year and the insight will have 1.200 hp or maybe it will do 160 db at 30 hz or maybe it will be slammed, frame banging with chrome wheels and a stance sticker on the window. Come on Rob there are many aspect of car mods you can explore other than big power
Michele building an audio system and a beastly engine are 2 completely different things hitting a 160 at 30 hz is hard is hell because the low Hertz tend to be a big air mover not a great pressure builder. Db is a measure of sound pressure. 40-50 hz is alot easier to burp a 160 due to the faster movement of the woofer. Take a look at exocontraltos Frankenstein build and see what all he had to do to get into the 160 club and how much tuning he had to do to get there....your looking at 6 18s with upgraded voice coils spiders and soft parts and 30,000+ watts of power
I have this exact radio in my mud toy, its been submerged in water completely, frozen solid, caked with mud and still works perfectly fine 100% of the time. Well worth the $20
Bought this same head unit.. you will want to paint the blue LED's Black as they will blind your ass driving at night.. seriously, you can see these led's from space
yea and now lots of units don't have a cd player there just media players like this one... still would have spent a couple bucks more on the head unit myself.... going through all that trouble lol
Onboard microphones are notoriously bad at sound capture, yes. Particularly when it comes to high spl applications like big bass builds (a la EXOContralto and SMD) however you may note that this is not a high SPL application, there is no clipping involved of the microphone. Also, you hear the factory speaker compared against the aftermarket speaker in the same environment and with the same camera. Therefore i feel confident in comparing the former to the latter and, being confident in the lack of quality in the former, leads me to believe that the objective quality of the aftermarket speakers is on the lower end of the market. However as stated multiple times in the video and again in my initial comment, none of this matters because they are still an upgrade from factory
RippyTheRazer I never said they didn't sound better or that they were bad bro chill, all I said was that you need to be there to hear it, think about it, recording a speaker and playing it through another one, it will only sound as good as the microphone and the speaker playing the recording
RippyTheRazer also, wasn't talking to you, was talking to the other buddy explaining that it doesn't matter how good his mic is you'd never really know how they actually sound over UA-cam so slow down
I bought that same radio head for my old toyota corrola 2007 and it was amazing quality people even complimented me on , and i was like "I KNOW , it was only 20$"
ktfjulien That is *exactly* the point (despite the OP making an obvious joke). Howard Jones I sure like your _What Is Love?_ ... but your _Look Mama_ is even better! An overlooked gem of the '80s and a total blast 😘
mrmizzarcus Shit, the juice you can get out of a tiny class-D unit these days makes half of the killer gear from back in the day look like oversized crap. And it's _cheap_
Kicker hideaway. Put one in the back seat of my truck, not into loud subs or over the top bass. I just like nice clean sound and good bass and it certainly did that.
So i watched this video in january of 2019 and made my first "modification" to my car. I'm now rebuilding the engine. Needless to say doing something like this is a gateway drug to mods
Oh man, I remember doing this to my little suzuki 12 years ago, 4 new cheap sony speakers, a new headunit later, man. Night and day... Put in a sub afterwards, I was 20 :D
SAAAAAAAAAILLLLL. It really is amazing what a difference both speakers and a new headunit makes. 150watt is not even pushing your speakers to the limit, $50 headunit would've been better but more money to save for the rotary.
GForceConnections again that's max power .. RMS is the true power and the only power figure worth looking at. Alpine make a plug and play 200w (50x4) amp which makes a great difference
Satveer Degun I believe the HUs he is talking about have a high output amp in the HU and require a 10ga power wire direct from the battery in order for it to function.
That V12 Miata Bruh All we need is a Italian engine swapped Miata, everyone be looking for a Ferrari/Lamborghini/Maserati at the meet only to find a Mazda
@@megaruhe6296 I know the song, I've heard it dozens of times. I know the sound, and I've even verified it before replying. In this case, that exact sound is definitely distorted exactly the way these cheap car audio speakers of that size do it.
metraonline has the plug and play things for the speakers and the head unit that will help with out cut and splice wires that come with the speakers. it is rare now to have to do that. I wanted to try to help on mention that. also thanks for showing what you have done
Put the same head unit in my 1000 dollar cobalt beater and it works great. I even wired up a small subwoofer with it. For 20 bucks to have bluetooth it can't be beat.
Alexander Hutchison the head unit does everything on its own, a subwoofer is an additional speaker that you connect to an amplifier to get thumping bass
Make a video on the one of a kind 4 rotor build that is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars or a $68 stereo install on a Honda insight, my vote is the Honda!
Dual used to be a German audio company. Now it's Chinese stuff. The name came from the ability to run early products on mains or wind-up power. They made great turntables.
Technically all of you just can't even count beyond three ... but I won't elaborate on that, inevitably evoking an undoubtably subjective debate about "usability".
The wattage rating on the speaker is how many watts it can take of continuous power without burning up. Watts EQUALS HEAT!!! Keep in mind that this is in continuous wattage, not peaks. Some speakers may handle higher peak wattage depending on how much the speaker is designed to travel. But don't push it! As for the wattage of the head unit, it depends on how it's rated. There is no standard for car stereos. Home stereos are rated at peak continuous wattage below 1% distortion, the point at which distortion becomes audible. Car stereos cheat and typically rate the output at 10-20% distortion. Who wants to listen to your favorite singer gargle? At their rated power that's what your getting!
I've read some of these comments and for people who've had this head unit and I still work that's good for you guys both my brothers have bought this one and the touchscreen 1 and just to me is trash they did not last long at all whatsoever No one could ever talk me into buying 1 of these units.I've always stuck with Sony
*Man you are so lucky your car's door speakers are that accessible. I have to buy several tools just to take off the door panel just to reach the wiring that attaches to the door speakers on my car.*
4:30 a common problem replacing stock speakers is that aftermarket ones tend to be bulkier, and they can easily get in the way of the windows when you roll them down. That happened me twice, and had to buy a pair of spacing rings to work around it.
Dear Rob, it’s been years since this video. I’m wondering if you’ve ever dug deeper into the “car audio scene” after these upgrades. I’ve seen the $70 subwoofer video and I was honestly shocked at how you decided to do it. Of course there are people who spends thousands of dollars making their music loud enough to be heard from a mile away, but I’m curious as to if you’ve ever found it as a hobby, that you continuously keep up with!
Absolutely would NEVER splice a stereo harness together with electrical tape. Had the tape come off on a power wire in my Festiva, and it burned out the wiring harness, rendering the car unusable (didn't touch the fuse though). Ever since then, I'll use shrink tube.
For anyone wanting to do a simple install. Metra makes a part that connects the OEM Speaker Plug to two speaker connectors. No need to cut your OEM harness. Part number is Metra 72-7800 for Honda's. Search on Metra's website for your vehicle and I am sure they make a Harness.
@@i-love-comountains3850 'Things are good' in Spanish 'Las cosas estan bien'. "Las cosas se ponen bien' in English would be 'Things are getting good'. Song: El 24 - Julion Alvarez
avin r What's the benefit of *_not_* using the built-in one? (I am quite aware of the correct answer regarding mid-priced gear, but on low-cost stuff it really doesn't matter!)
I always pull that plastic connector from the old speakers and solder it to the new speakers making sure I identify the positive otherwise sound is going to be faded by an inverted speaker
regardless of comments i have read - thank you - i found it entertaining and informative - it sis $20 i wasn't looking for an indepth diagram or anything just a straight forward do this and this - and it was - thank you - good quality picture, understood what you were saying, spoke loud enough, clear enough, no mumbling, thank you!
I literally installed that in my e30 2 weeks ago. I have a gutted dash and needed something small and Bluetooth that I could tuck behind my dash. The equalizer options kind of suck compared to my old Sony receiver but eh, lll survive.
This guy is "on-track." We used to buy and flip cars about ten years ago or so. One of the best ways to get a few hundred more for an old "hooptie," is to install a cheap but new looking stereo with a couple of two or three-way speakers. Makes all the difference in the world to buyers looking for the quick deal. Nice post. ;)
I could never stand using aux in my car, sure it's the fastest way to play your own music, but aux rolls off the lows because your phone thinks you've plugged in headphones. I prefer the USB input first. Higher quality over higher efficiency
I purchased the sony 3 way speakers and they sound great. Pretty good bass. I don't even have full power running to them yet. My sony head unit only puts out 15 watts rms per channel and the speakers are rated 45 watts rms.
I still have my older 90s era Kenwood cassette head unit receiver in my old but trusty good 1995 Ford T-Bird. I use the cassette player for 3 things.... my phone holder, Bluetooth cassette adaptor, and very rarely....cassettes. The receiver itself, and the amplifier connected to it are very powerful, being that they’re super old. The tape player only works right now, because I bought the belt kit for the tape drive mechanism that replaced the black gooey substance that used to be the old belts.
In the 80's I bought a _Kraco_ FM stereo with a cassette player from _Chief Auto Parts_ ( now _Autozone_ ) for about $50 for my '71 Chevy pickup which came stock with an AM radio. It came with two 6" speakers and a 50w power booster. No regrets there.
Have the exact same head unit in my 98 Grand Cherokee and I love it. Especially the remote. As for the wiring adapter, while you may be putting in a budget radio now, you may want to upgrade at a later time. So it would be better to solder the first time, and not have to unwrap all that tape later.
I LOVE my $20 bluetooth Walmart special! I've had exactly zero problems with it and I would not hesitate to recomend it as a basic BT head unit. (Unforeseen costs: The car kit and special adapter for my car ended up costing more than 2x what the radio cost.)
That head unit is only putting out 10 watts rms.. And those speakers will only handle maybe 20 watts rms.. Sorry I'm a audio junkie lol. But they will sound better than stock
Joey Keith who makes a good speaker? I have a new f150 and installed alpine door speakers but left the pillar tweeters alone. The sound improvement wasnt that noticeable, but I'm also on stock headunit which I don't wanna change because it's a navigation headunit.
Jace Jackson Alpine are fair for cheap I have pioneer in my Merc. But I run them through a crossover and amp. I'm running a pioneer head. Any system head can sound good if you run through a crossover and amp
The package box says 30 watts per channel....no info about rms output. But you get Bluetooth , usb / card reader and also with amp outputs and a jack input, so for the price you pay its not bad at all. My pioneer HU that also has those features was way more expensive , but also has a lot higher power output and better dsp eq options. But thats why the better brands are more expensive. Though I dont use the HU amp, got a Audio System monoblock, ground zero ta4000 amp hooked on 2 composets of massiv audio and a Digital Designs 12inch dvc woofer (really heavy boy). @ jace jackson If you dont want to change the head unit you can buy a high-low converter and you can hook up amps to you head unit. Quite easy to do your own. Does your alpine door speaker have tweeters build in? And about the pillar tweeters... are they still working when you changed your speakers or not?
i feel you. i had some kappa 4x6 that i was going to move over to my truck. they didn't fit in the dash so i bought the pyles. then i swapped the pyles for the kappas and made them fit in the dash. took the pyles and hooked them up to an amp. they where rated for 360 watts max at 60 rms. they only lasted like 2 days. then i just just bought a full infinity sound system. kappa 4x6, 6.5. k4 and k1000 amp.
Okay lol, I legit got that same stereo and speakers for my 92 Miata. I only got it because of the bluetooth, and it works pretty well, considering how small the cockpit of the car is.
I highly doubt anyone buying a 20 dollar headunit cares whether or not it puts out 7 Watts or 30. If it powers on and makes some noise that’ll do. I’m pretty impressed that you can get something like that for 20 bucks really. Maybe “impressed” is a strong word, more like surprised I guess.
Error989 hey I have that deck and four of the Walmart schosche 6 1/2 in my truck and it actually sounds better than 99% of new stock sound systems, although everything is crimped and heat shrunk lol
Wow, 7. I mean, had low expectations, but I still figured 10 to 15 wpc. Get what ya pay for I guess. If it's being used just to make mid range and treble, and it's being supplemented with some kind of sub, it should actually sound ok.
But make *absolutely* sure the box is unopened and undamaged. Walmart likes to put returned electronics back on the shelf and pretend it's new/unused (sold at the price of 'new', mind you). Had that happen twice from them (10 years apart, two different stores).
You need to update us in 6 months on if the dual radio still works. Like half of them don’t work out of the box and a good amount that do don’t last more than a month or two. At least that’s the way it was when I worked at Best Buy 10 years ago
Beware...lots of HONDAs have a security code in the OEM stereo/radio and your car will not run if you change out the radio head unit...better off to add a very small amp to blow through...many are available banged wish etc etc...25.00 or less...yup...
I was driving a company service van that had the factory am/fm radio. I bought one of these so I could play my mp3's and have Bluetooth connectivity for my phone. It works great. No regrets.
I had a Cutlass that had 6 blown speakers. I went with the CD player variant of this headunit, and then Dual brand 6”x9”s in the rear, and Dual brand 8”s in the front doors. I was learning and thought I knew what I was doing and TRASHED my wiring harness, then turn around and instead of adding a sub, I took two Dual brand 4”s and cut those into the place where the rear armrest sets. Needless to say, for a total kit that only cost ~$100, it BUMPED. bass didn’t hit all the lows that I wanted, but I couldn’t complain for dirt cheap! Then now my profile pic car, I watched some videos and wired up a cheapy little 300 watt Dual 10” sub that I think you do a review of in another video, and it’s surprisingly good for $80! Plus now I’m confident enough to try using a real sub/amp
Sony xplods are amazing for the price. Have em in my car. Paid 30 for them and the work amazing. Have them in my back speakers with a low pass filter from my radio head unit. May not have subs but my speakers can fool a lot of people to think I do. The front lines are much older Sony speakers that came with the head unit in the car when I bought it used. The back had been oem and were blown to pieces. Bought the xplods as a budget, was hopeful but skeptical since they were Sony, but also really cheap. Probably the best cheap thing I've ever bought. Eventually I'll put more in the front but unlike that cars wonderfully easy speaker install mine require removing the entirety of the door panel, and that was hard enough in the back. The front also have tweeters embedded in the pillar and The lock controls.
Yes.. Sony xplod are the best.. in 2008 I bought a 07 corolla and bought the Sony ,kept original factory speakers and it was very loud , I did not need an amp ..
May I suggest removing the plastic covers? They allow for very little cone travel, and it sounds like an obstruction issue. I would use the USB for a thumb-drive full of FLAC music, if it supports that format. I'm glad you can enjoy driving a Honda Insight. I drove my brother's Insight equipped with the CVT a couple times. And as John Connor says in Terminator 2: "I can get out and run faster than this"!
@Jordan Murray Just a dumb-ol electrician here with 30 years experience and 17 years professional experience, BUT electrical tape is an insulation only. It isnt meant to be used as a physical connection. Butt splices ARE a physical connection as well as insulated. I know people use tape alone and get away with it. Some people eat tofu, doesn't make it right it just means it happens. The correct way IS a butt splice. Heat in the vehicle will quickly deteriorate the integrity of the tape's physical bond and then he will be left with how well he twisted (if at all) the wires together before taping them. Not interested in an arguement, but the more people who know the right way means the fewer people doing it wrong!
Red Beard R.C. Hell, a set of wire nuts work far better just make sure to use the small ones. Weak twist connections with electrical tape are a no-go. Solder or wire crimp butt connectors are definitely the best option. For being super cheap a 5 dollar box of wire nuts will get the job done, I never had an issue using them in cheap installs, but correct me if I’m wrong.
That's actually pretty awesome you can get an Aux blutooth / USB / mp3 stereo system for only 20 bucks, 120w is plenty for stock speakers which is what most people would probably use it with (or cheaper speakers such as the ones you hooked up). You shouldn't use Aux input you get much better signal using USB, or Bluetooth even. You can charge and play music from your phone.
you dont chekk speaker cable phase with a 1.5 volt battery even to se that left and rigth push at the same time and the same with rear speakers.if done wrong you get ok bass with the balance turned to one off the sides but not in the middle since one is sucking and one is pushing they cansel each other out in the bass area
God bless those poppable speaker grilles. In every modern car you have to take down the entire door pad.
And screwed in speakers, rather than riveted!
totally. I don't get it, it's like automakers love to make DIYing difficult for auto owners wanting to stay on a budget.
@@ImNotADeeJay the government gets a cut of every car. Why do anything vehicles sold in America are made different. My wife's Honda fast idle sensor failed. They wanted to charge 1500 to repair it. But guess what, in Japan, they don't come with fast idle sensors. So they definitely want to make things difficult for people. My moms Cadillac has this plate cover and they wanted 80 bucks to remove it. My step-dad took a wire hanger and said fuck you. I will never buy mower vehicles unless a law demands it. It's cheaper to just replace a whole engine than what it costs to fix cars these days that somehow conveniently fail with thousands worth in repairs as soon as the warranty expires.
Jesse Cruz is how are you going to cut your own lawn with no mower?
So what you’re alluding to is that this Honda isn’t ‘modern’?
I just watched a man do a review of paper speakers, and I have no regrets.
dislike squad
Implying that these material speakers are that outdated or unusual. They were still in most cars until after the 2000s as far as them being bad quality, you haven't heard vintage JVC Kenwood Marshall or Fosgates, they're better than average modern speakers
Hey Tavarish do you plan on putting one of these head units in your Gallardo?
I just came here from your lambo video, no regrets
There are total shit, turn them up loud and they will tear themselves apart. I get it, you are the old vintage electronics hipster, but you are dead wrong about the old garbage, esp brands that were for the poor and shit back in the day. You list bad brands, that are on the cheap end to begin with lol
The fact you played Mexican music for that example was perfect
KaiiiLee 💀💀💀
What was the second song he played? When he was testing out the old speaker
Awesome.
The joke about it not being stuck was funny
@@CodyDylan-pt2kh skywalker
I always keep a spare license plate handy for removing speaker grilles..
brentonwb Those tin plates with the raised high letters are practically antiques.
@@HighestRank Just got a new license plate 3 months ago, metal with raised letters/numbers. I have no idea what you are talking about.
@@HighestRank Are you from UK..
@@0hjaa3.06 Probably CA.
@@HighestRank lmao what
It's really interesting how the stock speakers are made in Japan and the Sony ones are made in Vietnam
i just told him. hi`s a fucking idiot. the origal speakers mad ein japan sound clear. they only need to be attached
@@kavajamusic5411 Those cheap sony speakers will still outperform those cheap factory paper speakers, japan or not. The car was made in Japan, where do you expect the oem speakers to be from? My dodge has all US made factory audio.
Aftermarket one's had higher wattage, which may or may not actually matter, but I'm sure Vietnam makes decent stuff too. It's also a lot newer than the one in his old car. I do believe he could have tried tightening up the speakers and the rattling may have gone away.
Yeah, but they make cheap stuff in Japan too. Honda bought the cheapest speakers they could.
@@kavajamusic5411 Naw, the original speakers on old honda's were where they cut corners, made of cereal boxes, was tragic, you would have never guessed they were made by honda, they were that embarrassing.
Proof it doesn't take much to vastly improve sound from many stock car audio systems. Even the "premium" systems use cheap speakers for the most part. Great vid!
In this episode, Rob Spaghetti can't play his cassetti.
Godfrey Poon SPAGHET
How the fuck did the spaghetti bullshit make it over to this channel now? Holy shit I hate UA-cam lol
Tyler Johnson guilty by association.. basically the entire judicial system..
VCR was also garbage already, he's nervous, plays a track so he looks calm and ready to rewind, this whole cassettie with 1 pennie
Somebody touchin my spaghet
Not sure why this was recommended but I stayed lol
Thank you. Haha I tried making it entertaining and condensed. I was walking past the crap car aisle at Walmart and wondered what it sounded like haha
Turncoat Tony same
Turncoat Tony I actually wound up staying through the whole video too. I'm not even interested in that radio but I just couldn't change the channel I was really interested in seeing how it turned out.
Yukuba Holmes heck yeah. I even subbed. :D
Same here
I wish my car had pop out speaker covers. Some cars require you to remove the entire door panel just to access the speakers.
It's stupid the engineers weren't smart enough to make all vehicles with pop out speaker grates
T Davis well they don’t want people buying base models and putting nice speakers. They’d rather people pay a thousand for better speakers
Its not that hard tho.
I'm considering changing out the speakers/head unit in a 2008 smart car I just got a few weeks ago (had 70k miles on it got it for about 4.2k)...so far I'm just using a 40Watt Bluetooth speaker paired with my phone and the stock radio(volume isn't bad on radio but Aux cord volume was very weak and would cut out At max volume 24)...will I need to take out door panel in a 2008 smart for two Or can I just get them out does anyone know..it's the Passion for 2 not a brabus
Yeah I got a chevy impala limited lt 2015 old body style from 06-13, i had to unscrew few screws but thank god it was a plug and play with the GM adapter rather than splicing in it
love the panel removal tool at 2:14.
What I learned today, License Plates are great for removing speaker grills
@@flatdog691 lol
Yo, I gotta take out the whole door panel...gotta love my '96 lol
K.I.S.S principle. Love it. Keep it simple -
Car asmr
That's how everyone start to mod his car... One more year and the insight will have 1.200 hp or maybe it will do 160 db at 30 hz or maybe it will be slammed, frame banging with chrome wheels and a stance sticker on the window. Come on Rob there are many aspect of car mods you can explore other than big power
Michele AND THEN COMES THE GREEN TAURUS
what about 170db at 20hz?
160 db at 30 hz...that's hard as hell to do. I'd say go with 40-50 hz burps
Ren Höek, he is building a 4wd 4rotor rx7, I think he knows a thing or two about hard stuff to acomplish
Michele building an audio system and a beastly engine are 2 completely different things hitting a 160 at 30 hz is hard is hell because the low Hertz tend to be a big air mover not a great pressure builder. Db is a measure of sound pressure. 40-50 hz is alot easier to burp a 160 due to the faster movement of the woofer. Take a look at exocontraltos Frankenstein build and see what all he had to do to get into the 160 club and how much tuning he had to do to get there....your looking at 6 18s with upgraded voice coils spiders and soft parts and 30,000+ watts of power
Walmart isn't that bad? Thay sell alpine ,kenwood and kicker.
I buy 5qts of Valvoline for 16$
And 20¢ mac and cheese 🧀 🔥
I'm happy
M&R Tuning kicker really isnt that bad. They hit well over a loud exhaust v8 and 80mph wind noise
+Snipe Stud00 yup iv had 2 kicker comp 12"s 7 years and still bumping them today
Best subs ever
Ever try dual L7's
Walmart online even offers brands like American Bass which are severely underrated subs and amps
TenLettersRap yup they also sell coil overs and turbos I'm pretty sure you can get a bong on there too
My boi over here listening to Banda
greg santos me dicen el 24!!
greg santos lol
From everyone who does stereo installs PLEASE USE THE CHEAP HARNESS ADAPTER!!
I recently did a video on a $10 Walmart Car Stereo, by Blaupunkt. They sold out though, bummer! Great vid, BTW!
Williston Audio Labs yeah we know, but yours didn’t come with SONY spokenses.
You Big Dummy!
Sounds like you are an easy man to please....lol
With all of them expensive cars he has a small budget left, so cheap is good sometimes
Rulerpaco .paco LMBO I was thinking the same thing
He's just easy. Period.
I have this exact radio in my mud toy, its been submerged in water completely, frozen solid, caked with mud and still works perfectly fine 100% of the time. Well worth the $20
this is what happens when u spend all ur $$ on a diablo lmao
This man has a snap on screw driver and used a license plate to take the speaker cover off 😂😂😂.love it
Bought this same head unit.. you will want to paint the blue LED's Black as they will blind your ass driving at night.. seriously, you can see these led's from space
I think you can dim them from the settings
You definitely can
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What setting can't find it
I just put my bathing towel on it...problem solved!
building 1000hp AWD animal of a car makes videos on installing head units
XxboaredofbordemxX fuck yeah
aftermarked headunits have been looking the same for the last 20 years😂
yea and now lots of units don't have a cd player there just media players like this one... still would have spent a couple bucks more on the head unit myself.... going through all that trouble lol
they look the same sinse 19fucken90 not kidding
at some point they switched from volume buttons to a volume knob..
Well objectively they sound awful but subjectively as an upgrade to the factory system they succeed
RippyTheRazer Well yeah but you can't hear what they sound like through a microphone because the sound quality is greatly decreased
AFX Gaming it's not that it's decreased it's that your phone mic doesn't sound like the speakers thus not creating the same experience
Onboard microphones are notoriously bad at sound capture, yes. Particularly when it comes to high spl applications like big bass builds (a la EXOContralto and SMD) however you may note that this is not a high SPL application, there is no clipping involved of the microphone. Also, you hear the factory speaker compared against the aftermarket speaker in the same environment and with the same camera. Therefore i feel confident in comparing the former to the latter and, being confident in the lack of quality in the former, leads me to believe that the objective quality of the aftermarket speakers is on the lower end of the market. However as stated multiple times in the video and again in my initial comment, none of this matters because they are still an upgrade from factory
RippyTheRazer I never said they didn't sound better or that they were bad bro chill, all I said was that you need to be there to hear it, think about it, recording a speaker and playing it through another one, it will only sound as good as the microphone and the speaker playing the recording
RippyTheRazer also, wasn't talking to you, was talking to the other buddy explaining that it doesn't matter how good his mic is you'd never really know how they actually sound over UA-cam so slow down
I bought that same radio head for my old toyota corrola 2007 and it was amazing quality people even complimented me on , and i was like "I KNOW , it was only 20$"
I died when he took off the covers with the car plateXD
guilty but insane License
no you aren't dead. liar.
"Stock radio doesn't even have a CD player only a casset player" new radio.... has neither.... lol
cezzy abarca everyone listens to radio or aux now
wacka wacka That's not the point
You could get it with a multi disc CD player from the dealer
I still collect cassettes, most of the ones I have sounds as good as CD.
ktfjulien That is *exactly* the point (despite the OP making an obvious joke).
Howard Jones I sure like your _What Is Love?_ ... but your _Look Mama_ is even better! An overlooked gem of the '80s and a total blast 😘
" _OMGz Rob soldout to walmart!!! i'm done with this channel!! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee_ "
He's rolling in that sweet Walmart cash.
frog
Well it was sony speakers it just happen to be from walmart
do a sub install next, nothing fancy just a small one.
go big or go home
Only if he uses electrical tape to fasten the ground wire.
mrmizzarcus
Shit, the juice you can get out of a tiny class-D unit these days makes half of the killer gear from back in the day look like oversized crap. And it's _cheap_
Kicker hideaway. Put one in the back seat of my truck, not into loud subs or over the top bass. I just like nice clean sound and good bass and it certainly did that.
I like a thump to my music, but I dont want it all drowned out by the bass. So I usually bump it up a little, but not too much on the bass.
So i watched this video in january of 2019 and made my first "modification" to my car. I'm now rebuilding the engine. Needless to say doing something like this is a gateway drug to mods
wait, you have a super old car with a super cheap stereo & speaker... but you have a $1000 Iphone X ?
says something about people that buy into apple.
This car is meant to be as cheap as possible. Rob actually has a decent amount of money. But the purpose of this is to be as cheap as possible.
I have a galaxy s9 with a 2012 volvo your point is?
JDR 235 waste of money. Thats the point. My phone has 2 screens (it snaps around from the back) and it costs less than both those fragile phones
K...
Oh man, I remember doing this to my little suzuki 12 years ago, 4 new cheap sony speakers, a new headunit later, man. Night and day... Put in a sub afterwards, I was 20 :D
Jan De Kock wht Suzuki did u have
SAAAAAAAAAILLLLL. It really is amazing what a difference both speakers and a new headunit makes. 150watt is not even pushing your speakers to the limit, $50 headunit would've been better but more money to save for the rotary.
It's putting out more like 15W RMS. 120W is the maximum power that stereo can put out. He'd need an amplifier to max out the speakers.
zgdrummer there is 220watt head units. Sony has them too
Rotary? Does Rob have one of those?
GForceConnections again that's max power .. RMS is the true power and the only power figure worth looking at. Alpine make a plug and play 200w (50x4) amp which makes a great difference
Satveer Degun I believe the HUs he is talking about have a high output amp in the HU and require a 10ga power wire direct from the battery in order for it to function.
That song 0:22 El 24 i love u bro! 😂😂😂😂
Luis Mendoza it’s better with Tigrillo Palma
Lmao I was looking for this hahaha
Harmon Tedesco frs bro tigrillo Palma sings it better
Estaba buscando este comentario 😃
Kevin Zamora. Frfr
I used to work in the electronics dept of a walmart. I sold everything you just shown...often. very popular single din units.
The torture on the speakers when the bass drops right at the end 😂😂😂😂 that’s how you end it my man lmfao
I also love listening to music when I'm going the distance, if you know what I mean....😉
Bradley W beat me to it
Cake anyone??
Really I thought a LS powered Miata was batshit insane now you've piqued my interest in a V12 swap
1337Pwny hell yeah playa
That V12 Miata Bruh All we need is a Italian engine swapped Miata, everyone be looking for a Ferrari/Lamborghini/Maserati at the meet only to find a Mazda
The “Twist & Tape” method the most OG technique of car modding.
Ok here is the real test * bass *
" video ends "
P. luna lol
It’s short Because he didn’t want to trigger the UA-cam copyright police.
@@misatzu that's actually how the song sounds.
@@megaruhe6296 I know the song, I've heard it dozens of times. I know the sound, and I've even verified it before replying.
In this case, that exact sound is definitely distorted exactly the way these cheap car audio speakers of that size do it.
3:00 LMAOOO 'some fancy plastic stuff i will probably not need unless i want to make this car look CRAZY' 😂😂😂😂😂
metraonline has the plug and play things for the speakers and the head unit that will help with out cut and splice wires that come with the speakers. it is rare now to have to do that. I wanted to try to help on mention that. also thanks for showing what you have done
Put the same head unit in my 1000 dollar cobalt beater and it works great. I even wired up a small subwoofer with it. For 20 bucks to have bluetooth it can't be beat.
No you don't need a subwoofer
Alexander Hutchison the head unit does everything on its own, a subwoofer is an additional speaker that you connect to an amplifier to get thumping bass
Make a video on the one of a kind 4 rotor build that is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars or a $68 stereo install on a Honda insight, my vote is the Honda!
Remember when DUAL was a good brand name? Not since the eighties.
The brand had several ups and downs. Originally the company was from my country =)
GALAXY S7 Germany ?
yup
I thought it was Pyramid 😂
Dual used to be a German audio company. Now it's Chinese stuff. The name came from the ability to run early products on mains or wind-up power. They made great turntables.
5:29 "USB Input, maybe I can charge my phone slowly while listening to music"...
You can get a much higher end head unit for almost the same price used off craigslist. Used speakers are dirt cheap too...
2:12 What is that tool called?
License plate
This is a tortious
iMrParker How do you use it?
Rob
minnsminns oh shit...
:D haha 8:08
Silly guy, only girls have two holes lol
I'm baked
P1imp0logy101 lmao!
P1imp0logy101 girls have 3....
Technically all of you just can't even count beyond three ... but I won't elaborate on that, inevitably evoking an undoubtably subjective debate about "usability".
P1imp0logy101 I include the eyes, ears, nose and mouth, I'm all in
No, 3
The wattage rating on the speaker is how many watts it can take of continuous power without burning up. Watts EQUALS HEAT!!! Keep in mind that this is in continuous wattage, not peaks. Some speakers may handle higher peak wattage depending on how much the speaker is designed to travel. But don't push it!
As for the wattage of the head unit, it depends on how it's rated. There is no standard for car stereos. Home stereos are rated at peak continuous wattage below 1% distortion, the point at which distortion becomes audible. Car stereos cheat and typically rate the output at 10-20% distortion. Who wants to listen to your favorite singer gargle? At their rated power that's what your getting!
I've read some of these comments and for people who've had this head unit and I still work that's good for you guys both my brothers have bought this one and the touchscreen 1 and just to me is trash they did not last long at all whatsoever No one could ever talk me into buying 1 of these units.I've always stuck with Sony
*Man you are so lucky your car's door speakers are that accessible. I have to buy several tools just to take off the door panel just to reach the wiring that attaches to the door speakers on my car.*
4:30 a common problem replacing stock speakers is that aftermarket ones tend to be bulkier, and they can easily get in the way of the windows when you roll them down. That happened me twice, and had to buy a pair of spacing rings to work around it.
Dear Rob, it’s been years since this video. I’m wondering if you’ve ever dug deeper into the “car audio scene” after these upgrades. I’ve seen the $70 subwoofer video and I was honestly shocked at how you decided to do it. Of course there are people who spends thousands of dollars making their music loud enough to be heard from a mile away, but I’m curious as to if you’ve ever found it as a hobby, that you continuously keep up with!
Absolutely would NEVER splice a stereo harness together with electrical tape. Had the tape come off on a power wire in my Festiva, and it burned out the wiring harness, rendering the car unusable (didn't touch the fuse though). Ever since then, I'll use shrink tube.
Ever used the Wago 221 connectors? I used to use them in everything from lighting systems to line-voltage residential.
For anyone wanting to do a simple install. Metra makes a part that connects the OEM Speaker Plug to two speaker connectors. No need to cut your OEM harness. Part number is Metra 72-7800 for Honda's. Search on Metra's website for your vehicle and I am sure they make a Harness.
Like for the awesome Mexican music🇲🇽
Hell yeah
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You got a thumbs down.
Jason Ruhe so did u
0:19
This:
*"Las cosas se ponen bien"*
LOL
"Things are good," in case anyone was wondering lol
@@i-love-comountains3850 'Things are good' in Spanish 'Las cosas estan bien'. "Las cosas se ponen bien' in English would be 'Things are getting good'. Song: El 24 - Julion Alvarez
Música buena
Someone should do a needless to say counter
Needless to say that would have been interesting
Just make it a drinking game.
You should really use the equalizer feature if that head unit had one. IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Just get an EQ on your phone and run it there.
avin r What's the benefit of *_not_* using the built-in one?
(I am quite aware of the correct answer regarding mid-priced gear, but on low-cost stuff it really doesn't matter!)
Those Sony speakers look like they are missing a bit on the highs, so you turn up the highs a bit and it sounds better
I always pull that plastic connector from the old speakers and solder it to the new speakers making sure I identify the positive otherwise sound is going to be faded by an inverted speaker
regardless of comments i have read - thank you - i found it entertaining and informative - it sis $20 i wasn't looking for an indepth diagram or anything just a straight forward do this and this - and it was - thank you - good quality picture, understood what you were saying, spoke loud enough, clear enough, no mumbling, thank you!
I literally installed that in my e30 2 weeks ago. I have a gutted dash and needed something small and Bluetooth that I could tuck behind my dash. The equalizer options kind of suck compared to my old Sony receiver but eh, lll survive.
That makes sense. The usb doesn’t charge my iPhone either.
would that be the orange wires then?
the orange wires just the dimmer for the dash lights.
oldmanloki _ do you hear that?? Sounds like you're playing that like a damn fiddle!!
Coincidence? Rob has his GF intro and all of the toys go away?
@ 0:39 that was a dead on copy of what every Honda stereo system sounds like
2012 civic driver here.. can confirm
This guy is "on-track." We used to buy and flip cars about ten years ago or so. One of the best ways to get a few hundred more for an old "hooptie," is to install a cheap but new looking stereo with a couple of two or three-way speakers. Makes all the difference in the world to buyers looking for the quick deal. Nice post. ;)
Great, honest, real-world, no-snobs-allowed review. Excellent work!
120 Watts of "Dual" power is more like 40 real watts at best.
Mister Hat At least it's still driving the speakers.
helpfull video
I could never stand using aux in my car, sure it's the fastest way to play your own music, but aux rolls off the lows because your phone thinks you've plugged in headphones. I prefer the USB input first. Higher quality over higher efficiency
this is the difference between buying a $20 walmart unit and a $200 Kenwood head with a $1000 stereo...
What phone "rolls off the lows"???
I used a frequency tone generator app on my phone and played tones from literally 1Hz to 20KHz. No problem.
I purchased the sony 3 way speakers and they sound great. Pretty good bass. I don't even have full power running to them yet. My sony head unit only puts out 15 watts rms per channel and the speakers are rated 45 watts rms.
That Mexican song got me all kinds of fucked up ALL KINDS hahahahaha
6:45 "not my penis"
Lol
I still have my older 90s era Kenwood cassette head unit receiver in my old but trusty good 1995 Ford T-Bird. I use the cassette player for 3 things.... my phone holder, Bluetooth cassette adaptor, and very rarely....cassettes. The receiver itself, and the amplifier connected to it are very powerful, being that they’re super old. The tape player only works right now, because I bought the belt kit for the tape drive mechanism that replaced the black gooey substance that used to be the old belts.
In the 80's I bought a _Kraco_ FM stereo with a cassette player from _Chief Auto Parts_ ( now _Autozone_ ) for about $50 for my '71 Chevy pickup which came stock with an AM radio. It came with two 6" speakers and a 50w power booster. No regrets there.
Ah I remember Kraco had some 6x9 and they were good for a high school student. Those Kraco packages were insane haha
Rob, the USB is for a flash drive with music ie. MP3s. It won't charge the phone well.
Have the exact same head unit in my 98 Grand Cherokee and I love it. Especially the remote. As for the wiring adapter, while you may be putting in a budget radio now, you may want to upgrade at a later time. So it would be better to solder the first time, and not have to unwrap all that tape later.
I LOVE my $20 bluetooth Walmart special! I've had exactly zero problems with it and I would not hesitate to recomend it as a basic BT head unit.
(Unforeseen costs: The car kit and special adapter for my car ended up costing more than 2x what the radio cost.)
That head unit is only putting out 10 watts rms.. And those speakers will only handle maybe 20 watts rms.. Sorry I'm a audio junkie lol. But they will sound better than stock
Joey Keith who makes a good speaker? I have a new f150 and installed alpine door speakers but left the pillar tweeters alone. The sound improvement wasnt that noticeable, but I'm also on stock headunit which I don't wanna change because it's a navigation headunit.
Jace Jackson Alpine are fair for cheap I have pioneer in my Merc. But I run them through a crossover and amp. I'm running a pioneer head. Any system head can sound good if you run through a crossover and amp
The package box says 30 watts per channel....no info about rms output.
But you get Bluetooth , usb / card reader and also with amp outputs and a jack input, so for the price you pay its not bad at all.
My pioneer HU that also has those features was way more expensive , but also has a lot higher power output and better dsp eq options.
But thats why the better brands are more expensive.
Though I dont use the HU amp, got a Audio System monoblock, ground zero ta4000 amp hooked on 2 composets of massiv audio and a Digital Designs 12inch dvc woofer (really heavy boy).
@ jace jackson
If you dont want to change the head unit you can buy a high-low converter and you can hook up amps to you head unit.
Quite easy to do your own.
Does your alpine door speaker have tweeters build in?
And about the pillar tweeters... are they still working when you changed your speakers or not?
i went to amazon. got some pyles. all 4 speakers where 40 bucks. the radio was also mechless for 20.
I had 2 pyle woofers in my doors. They ended up blowing up in 3 days -.- I suppose you can’t expect much with something that cheap.
How's that Trailblazer holding up?
i feel you. i had some kappa 4x6 that i was going to move over to my truck. they didn't fit in the dash so i bought the pyles. then i swapped the pyles for the kappas and made them fit in the dash. took the pyles and hooked them up to an amp. they where rated for 360 watts max at 60 rms. they only lasted like 2 days. then i just just bought a full infinity sound system. kappa 4x6, 6.5. k4 and k1000 amp.
its been gone some years. i have a squarebody s10 blazer now.
BlazingCheerio when gm was easy to work on, better than the TrailBlazer
The stock head unit can be paired with A 6 disc CD changer that sits the back of the car. There is also spaces for two more speakers behind seats.
Okay lol, I legit got that same stereo and speakers for my 92 Miata. I only got it because of the bluetooth, and it works pretty well, considering how small the cockpit of the car is.
that $20 head unit has fake output specs... it has been measured at 7W x4
Error989 what would you expect out of a $20 deck to do it's "rated" output power?
Error989 who cares for this application?
I highly doubt anyone buying a 20 dollar headunit cares whether or not it puts out 7 Watts or 30. If it powers on and makes some noise that’ll do. I’m pretty impressed that you can get something like that for 20 bucks really. Maybe “impressed” is a strong word, more like surprised I guess.
Error989 hey I have that deck and four of the Walmart schosche 6 1/2 in my truck and it actually sounds better than 99% of new stock sound systems, although everything is crimped and heat shrunk lol
Wow, 7.
I mean, had low expectations, but I still figured 10 to 15 wpc. Get what ya pay for I guess.
If it's being used just to make mid range and treble, and it's being supplemented with some kind of sub, it should actually sound ok.
I dont get why people say Walmart stuff is bad it’s literally big brands but sold in Walmart someone would buy the same thing but online
But make *absolutely* sure the box is unopened and undamaged. Walmart likes to put returned electronics back on the shelf and pretend it's new/unused (sold at the price of 'new', mind you). Had that happen twice from them (10 years apart, two different stores).
Where’s the rotor rob 4
If you're interested at all, the orange and orange/white wire would have been for steering wheel controls where applicable.
Most phenomenal ending ever. Speakers took a shiyeet when he did the real test🤣🤣
You need to update us in 6 months on if the dual radio still works. Like half of them don’t work out of the box and a good amount that do don’t last more than a month or two. At least that’s the way it was when I worked at Best Buy 10 years ago
Will do! Since I paid for it I’ll roast it if it sucks
slwrthnu2 I've had mine for over 2 years and subs and amplifier and it's been fine
Rob can we see a rotary in the insight?
Beware...lots of HONDAs have a security code in the OEM stereo/radio and your car will not run if you change out the radio head unit...better off to add a very small amp to blow through...many are available banged wish etc etc...25.00 or less...yup...
What year's?
That headunit alone would cost between nz$80-130 here in New Zealand
Dave Minuet Hello from across the pond :) know any Ferguson’s in NZ? If so, you know my family. :)
Yo that screwdriver he’s using is the same price of everything he bought 😂😂
Also instead of cutting off the old speaker harnessing, you could just get an adapter
Take a shot every time he says ‘needless’.
Don't do this...I woke up in the bathtub.
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Crimp connectors aren't very much, I would trust those over electrical tape
Solder and heat shrink.
"Wago 221" connectors. You're welcome.
Sincerely, someone who used to use them on many electrical wiring jobs. Never once had a problem.
I was driving a company service van that had the factory am/fm radio. I bought one of these so I could play my mp3's and have Bluetooth connectivity for my phone. It works great. No regrets.
I had a Cutlass that had 6 blown speakers. I went with the CD player variant of this headunit, and then Dual brand 6”x9”s in the rear, and Dual brand 8”s in the front doors.
I was learning and thought I knew what I was doing and TRASHED my wiring harness, then turn around and instead of adding a sub, I took two Dual brand 4”s and cut those into the place where the rear armrest sets. Needless to say, for a total kit that only cost ~$100, it BUMPED. bass didn’t hit all the lows that I wanted, but I couldn’t complain for dirt cheap!
Then now my profile pic car, I watched some videos and wired up a cheapy little 300 watt Dual 10” sub that I think you do a review of in another video, and it’s surprisingly good for $80! Plus now I’m confident enough to try using a real sub/amp
Sony xplods are amazing for the price. Have em in my car. Paid 30 for them and the work amazing. Have them in my back speakers with a low pass filter from my radio head unit. May not have subs but my speakers can fool a lot of people to think I do. The front lines are much older Sony speakers that came with the head unit in the car when I bought it used. The back had been oem and were blown to pieces. Bought the xplods as a budget, was hopeful but skeptical since they were Sony, but also really cheap. Probably the best cheap thing I've ever bought. Eventually I'll put more in the front but unlike that cars wonderfully easy speaker install mine require removing the entirety of the door panel, and that was hard enough in the back. The front also have tweeters embedded in the pillar and The lock controls.
James Irwin-McConnell Thanks 4 the input. Need 2 change my front 1’s. Was heavily leaning towards the Sony Xplodes.
Yes.. Sony xplod are the best.. in 2008 I bought a 07 corolla and bought the Sony ,kept original factory speakers and it was very loud , I did not need an amp ..
May I suggest removing the plastic covers? They allow for very little cone travel, and it sounds like an obstruction issue. I would use the USB for a thumb-drive full of FLAC music, if it supports that format.
I'm glad you can enjoy driving a Honda Insight. I drove my brother's Insight equipped with the CVT a couple times. And as John Connor says in Terminator 2: "I can get out and run faster than this"!
jb34304 I doubt the built in DAC would do flac files any justice.
How you have everything under $20 and use electrical tape instead of connectors (which isn’t that expensive to get) and you have a 1000 phone. 😂😅
@Jordan Murray well the cables could very well come loose with road vibration. Using a butt connector wouldve cost 10 cents and been much stronger
@Jordan Murray Just a dumb-ol electrician here with 30 years experience and 17 years professional experience, BUT electrical tape is an insulation only. It isnt meant to be used as a physical connection. Butt splices ARE a physical connection as well as insulated. I know people use tape alone and get away with it. Some people eat tofu, doesn't make it right it just means it happens. The correct way IS a butt splice. Heat in the vehicle will quickly deteriorate the integrity of the tape's physical bond and then he will be left with how well he twisted (if at all) the wires together before taping them. Not interested in an arguement, but the more people who know the right way means the fewer people doing it wrong!
Red Beard R.C. Hell, a set of wire nuts work far better just make sure to use the small ones. Weak twist connections with electrical tape are a no-go. Solder or wire crimp butt connectors are definitely the best option. For being super cheap a 5 dollar box of wire nuts will get the job done, I never had an issue using them in cheap installs, but correct me if I’m wrong.
That's actually pretty awesome you can get an Aux blutooth / USB / mp3 stereo system for only 20 bucks, 120w is plenty for stock speakers which is what most people would probably use it with (or cheaper speakers such as the ones you hooked up).
You shouldn't use Aux input you get much better signal using USB, or Bluetooth even. You can charge and play music from your phone.
you dont chekk speaker cable phase with a 1.5 volt battery even to se that left and rigth push at the same time and the same with rear speakers.if done wrong you get ok bass with the balance turned to one off the sides but not in the middle since one is sucking and one is pushing they cansel each other out in the bass area