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Amp or new deck?

1991 corolla with old kenwood cd player (30w x4) but only have two front speakers installed. Upgraded speakers from stock to alpines, and it sounds better but when I turn up the volume sound is distorted. Given that my car is cheap, I'd like to keep the budget low. Am I better off installing an amplifier (my logic is - cd player works perfectly, and new ones only put our 50w x4 anyways) or a buying a new deck? If an amp will make it sound better, I'm happy to install just that because a new deck would also attract unncessary attention to my car which is really easy to break in to! No experience with car audio, so having trouble gauging what results I may get and what is worthwhile.

Posted 451 days ago

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Think about it this way : if 30x4 is causing distortion, and you have upgraded to Alpine speakers, which im betting the RMS is much higher then 30rms, then your headset is either A:) broken, or B:0 needs to be calibrated by changing the EQ. I presume option B is the cause of your problems, you should go through, and lower everything...lows, mids highs... to the lowest setting, and then start by turning your radio up to full blast...the sounds should barely seem like your at full power. Then start with the HIGHS and turns those up to just below distortion, then do mids, then lows. If you cannot do that process with success, then your radio is just old...which i have replaced one that couldnt be tuned properly, and the distortion now dissapeared. You might want to also check the wiring, older wiring sucks with Sound quality, and loose connections on the speaker terminals add to the problem. You dont need an amplifier. A newer radio with better sound equalizers, is a better start. Also, get 2 more speakers...

450 days ago

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