Lots of great info in the video. I'm getting ready to install a similar setup in my wife's 2023. Non bose 6 speaker. I'm changing the door speakers to kicker front/rear. LC2i pro with a CXA 800.1 powering preloaded L7S downfiring sub. I was looking for you to mention where/how you ran your power through the firewall 🤔? Have a great weekend 😃👍👍🤙
I did this and recently changed out to Rockford Fosgate in the front and rear doors.had kickers in the front doors and Kenwood Exelons in the rear doors for a year and they sounded good but it was like night and day with Fosgates especially with rock and metal and they are more clear and louder
Thanks! We usually use a wire threading tool to use a factory rubber grommet for our power wires! If my memory serves, these cars have a fairly large open space at the bottom of the grommet that was perfect for our power wire 👌
Nice but why not grab your signaling from the rear bose sub and use high level inputs? Yes I know its not a full range signal but it does work quite well.
We actually are usuing high level inputs here!😉 In our testing, the doors were a bit more reliable of a signal source. There was some roll off that wasn't as aggressive on the doors, and by using the rears we weren't locked into the factory crossover frequency for the sub! Thanks for watching! 😄
Unfortunately, do to our legal contracts/agreements we can't share our technical service info with the general public, but if you would like to use the same diagrams that we do, our technical data provider does offer a reduced cost for DIYers! All of the info about their DIY service can be found here 😊 www.alldata.com/diy-us/en
I have a 2021 CX-5 with the Bose system (just like this vehicle). Bose does some strange stuff. If you plot the drive frequency response curves to both the front, and rear door speakers....you'll find things that shouldn't be there. Number one is - they send to, and below 40 Hz to the front speakers! Now you would think with a stock Bose sub as part of the system, that surely they would CUT at around 60-80 Hz to these, to not make the low freq. excursion make them go nuts....but no, it's there. And as far as the rear door speakers go, the signals do go below 60-80 Hz, but much less than the fronts. And so the Bose sub in that car - they drive from 30-70 Hz....and the 70 Hz has an 18dB/oct cut rate. I didn't use their sub's drive, OR the rear door drive. As whacky as it may seem, I used the front spkr drive to drive a JX1000/1D amp, and a single Alpine R2-W12D4 sub in a 1 cu ft. sealed box. It kicks butt. OH...Also....I installed bass blockers on the front speakers, selected to start to cut the drive below about 70Hz . This cleaned up the sound out of them very noticeably.
Lots of great info in the video. I'm getting ready to install a similar setup in my wife's 2023. Non bose 6 speaker. I'm changing the door speakers to kicker front/rear. LC2i pro with a CXA 800.1 powering preloaded L7S downfiring sub. I was looking for you to mention where/how you ran your power through the firewall 🤔? Have a great weekend 😃👍👍🤙
I did this and recently changed out to Rockford Fosgate in the front and rear doors.had kickers in the front doors and Kenwood Exelons in the rear doors for a year and they sounded good but it was like night and day with Fosgates especially with rock and metal and they are more clear and louder
Thanks! We usually use a wire threading tool to use a factory rubber grommet for our power wires!
If my memory serves, these cars have a fairly large open space at the bottom of the grommet that was perfect for our power wire 👌
Nice but why not grab your signaling from the rear bose sub and use high level inputs? Yes I know its not a full range signal but it does work quite well.
We actually are usuing high level inputs here!😉
In our testing, the doors were a bit more reliable of a signal source. There was some roll off that wasn't as aggressive on the doors, and by using the rears we weren't locked into the factory crossover frequency for the sub!
Thanks for watching! 😄
Whats the product number for the powerd kickers ?
51PTRTP10
Can you post which wires are the speaker wires form the door panel, or a wiring diagram, also in this a non Bose system ?
Unfortunately, do to our legal contracts/agreements we can't share our technical service info with the general public, but if you would like to use the same diagrams that we do, our technical data provider does offer a reduced cost for DIYers!
All of the info about their DIY service can be found here 😊
www.alldata.com/diy-us/en
I have a 2021 CX-5 with the Bose system (just like this vehicle). Bose does some strange stuff. If you plot the drive frequency response curves to both the front, and rear door speakers....you'll find things that shouldn't be there. Number one is - they send to, and below 40 Hz to the front speakers! Now you would think with a stock Bose sub as part of the system, that surely they would CUT at around 60-80 Hz to these, to not make the low freq. excursion make them go nuts....but no, it's there. And as far as the rear door speakers go, the signals do go below 60-80 Hz, but much less than the fronts.
And so the Bose sub in that car - they drive from 30-70 Hz....and the 70 Hz has an 18dB/oct cut rate.
I didn't use their sub's drive, OR the rear door drive. As whacky as it may seem, I used the front spkr drive to drive a JX1000/1D amp, and a single Alpine R2-W12D4 sub in a 1 cu ft. sealed box. It kicks butt.
OH...Also....I installed bass blockers on the front speakers, selected to start to cut the drive below about 70Hz . This cleaned up the sound out of them very noticeably.
link's dead.. nice video btw!
Thanks! Seem to be working on my end but Ill take a look with another phone to be sure :)
Do I need a lc2 pro to make it sound better
In our testing on this CX-5, we didn't find any need for an LC2i. The Kickers FIT input works perfect for this :)
@@user-nv4vx2fv8m It improves the sound yes . The CX 5 with the Bose unit shuts off the subwoofer 35 volume .
dosnt the boss setup already have a sub near the spare tire?
The factory subwoofer is a good start, but a dedicated amp and subwoofer can add significantly more low-end punch! 😁
And it sucks