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When I bought my Vibe back in Dec. I knew that the sound system was fairly lame, thinking it was mostly due to the cardboard speakers. I replaced them with a Polk 3650 component system. Much nicer, and the horrible bass buzz was gone, but it still wasn't stellar.Last night I replaced the head unit in less than an hour and a half with a Pioneer 6400.(now that i know how, I could probably do one in twenty minutes) The difference is absolutely amazing. $250 bucks for everything including the harness, insert, and aerial converter. All availible at Best Buy. Simple to do, much easier than doing the speakers. Ask the installation guy for the REAL harness and DIN insert that they use for their installations, not the "universal" stuff on the shelf.If there is anyone out there who is waffling on whether to do something about their sound system...DO IT.I'm sure I could have spent more, I'm sure there is better out there, but it's truly amazing what you can get now for $250 and an hour and a half of your life.Scott160

I just got done installing some pioneer speakers in the door, and they don't sound like I thought they would. They have too much bass. Should I hook up an EQ to the front speakers, so that I can just use the sub for bass? I think that is what I want to do...

You could also buy a crossover to filter out the bass.

Too much base? That's like havin' too much money, having too much fun, havin'...... for a Country music fan, tain't no such thang!

how do I hook it up? The crossover that is...

Check this out and tell me if it will work?http://carstereoexpo.com/c1bpowacelca.html

Is it safe to assume that you are using the Volf amp on the subs only? If you are then that will work, to make sure the subs are getting low freq's only. If the door speakers are running off of the stock am then you will need to lower the bass on the deck itself and compensate with the sub amp's gain / bass boost. It all really depends on your setup, there are sooooo many things you can do it just depends on how you have set it up!

Thats an AMP crossover. These are what I'm talking about....http://www.jlaudio.com/evolution/images ... 650CX.html

quote:I just got done installing some pioneer speakers in the door, and they don't sound like I thought they would. They have too much bass. Should I hook up an EQ to the front speakers, so that I can just use the sub for bass? I think that is what I want to do...I though your head unit has high pass filter for front speaker. Mine has one, so no other cross over needed.

it does have a set of RCA's for the front speakers, but I didn't put them with it. Should I? And how can will I run that with it like that? Thanks...I did see those when I hooked them up.

I figured it out...and NOW. (removed). It is soooooooo nice. Thanks man...

I just just turned on the HPF. I had to scan through the audio menu, that is all it took. It sounds extremely different, I couldn't believe it. I set it to 125Hz and it did the trick.