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Zerg The Bear

Zerg The Bear

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Hey everyone. I just purchased a 2006 GXP a little over a month ago. I've already spent some time here since before I bought the car, and there have been tons of helpful threads. I can't wait to get involved with the community some more.
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I replaced the head unit and rear speakers. After dealing with the joys of replacing components of the Monsoon system, so I have decided to replace front components as well and add an amp for these four sets of speakers. I'll probably get around to that in a few weeks. I do plan on keeping the Monsoon amp connected, though, to keep the center channel going (and for the chimes from the adapter).

The other things I have upcoming are a custom exhaust and trans cooler. The trans cooler is pretty self-explanatory based on all of the comments and suggestions on here. The exhaust on the car has plenty of holes and the mufflers are coming apart. I figured it would be better to make a whole new cat-back system instead of just replacing the mufflers.

Right now, I'm not really looking for power mods, but I would never rule them out. I figure with the stuff above, I'll have plenty of work for the time being.
 
welcome bud! definately upgrade when you do exhaust. those 5.3's sound great with anything other than factory on em
 
Zerg The Bear said:
I replaced the head unit and rear speakers. After dealing with the joys of replacing components of the Monsoon system, so I have decided to replace front components as well and add an amp for these four sets of speakers. I'll probably get around to that in a few weeks. I do plan on keeping the Monsoon amp connected, though, to keep the center channel going (and for the chimes from the adapter).
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Did you keep the rear amp hooked up to the new speakers? What speakers did you use? Both of mine are blown and I need to replace them.
 


Chug said:
Did you keep the rear amp hooked up to the new speakers? What speakers did you use? Both of mine are blown and I need to replace them.
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I didn't keep them hooked up to the factory amp because Monsoon has two outputs per speaker - one with only low frequencies and one with only high frequencies. The factory speakers have four inputs for this, not the typical two. If you just choose one of those pairs of wires to connect your new speakers to, then you'll only get lows or highs, not both.

I bypassed the Monsoon amp completely, but this can only be done if you have an aftermarket radio. The factory radio has low-level speaker outputs knowing it will be going to an amp. Aftermarket radios have a small amp built-in. One thing I found out is if you have the GMOS-04 connected, it will make the speaker outputs low-level (also being designed to be hooked up to an amp). I had to bypass that for the rear speakers, so the actual radio amp would power the rear speakers.

As I mentioned, I'm replacing my front speakers as well, so I went ahead and got an amp that will drive all four sets of speakers. I will run RCAs from my head unit back to the new amp and leave the Monsoon amp connected to the front speaker inputs from the radio/GMOS-04 just to power the center channel (chimes will only come out of there now).

Here's my equipment setup. The speakers and amp are probably mid/low-mid grade, but I'm not an audiophile, so it will be good enough for me:
Head unit - Pioneer AVH-X3500BHS
Rear speakers - Pioneer TS-A6965R 6x9
Front speakers - PioneerTS-A1605C 6-1/2 components
Amp - Pioneer GM-6500F
 
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