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I am running my JL 6.5s in my cabin on the head unit power and the rest on a JL MHD 900/5. The pair in the cabin I didnt want extremely loud anyway. They sound great with just the deck power. But they really shine when you put some power behind them. I am running 2 JL 10's and two 7.7's in the bench seat enclosure without baffles and they rock and have a pair of 6.5's in the factory locations. Love the set up!!
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Amps seem to be pretty reasonable these days so i would not run them off the head unit only. I listened to a set of 7.7's yesterday in my partners bass boat with a small amp and was overly impressed, cannot believe the sound he is getting out of those. Another friend called me over to his house on saturday to listen to his new setup that he was very proud of . He had 4 west marine speakers , a Kicker marine amp and two bazooka self powered marine tubes. Bass response was pretty ok , and the volume was loud , but honestly it sounded really bad compared to the JL audio that i have heard. (didnt have the heart to tell him) , although he is a cheapskate . With another 250 to 300 added to his budget I think he would have been a lot happier.
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Scooter B,
Don't know if that was directed to me or not but I'll chime in. My amp is located in the engine compartment next to the battery (but its a marine amp JL MHD 900/5). Had a max total of 3 feet of power/ground cable that I had to run. I ran the remote switch to turn on the amp from the head unit of course, along with the three pair of preamp signal RCAs. Those were routed to the amp down the left side and under the bench seat, across the boat and then back to the amp. If you will pm me your email address, Ill send you some pics of the install.
Don't know if that was directed to me or not but I'll chime in. My amp is located in the engine compartment next to the battery (but its a marine amp JL MHD 900/5). Had a max total of 3 feet of power/ground cable that I had to run. I ran the remote switch to turn on the amp from the head unit of course, along with the three pair of preamp signal RCAs. Those were routed to the amp down the left side and under the bench seat, across the boat and then back to the amp. If you will pm me your email address, Ill send you some pics of the install.
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I am going to run two amps . I got a hell of a deal on some 2 gage wire, pretty big stuff!!!! so I guess i should not lose any power for the long stretch. I am going to run a distribution block and hope that works out. Have everything i want except the speakers . Just trying to figure out how to do it right the first time. There just arent many options for speaker locations in the cockpit....
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Thanks guys. I think I'm going to keep it simple and go with 2 7.7's in the rear bench and 2 6.5's up front on a 4 channel amp and see how it sounds. I'll snap some photos if I ever can find time to get it finished.
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Currently installing 2 Cvx kicker 10's, 2 6x9 kickers under the rear bench, 2 6.5 kicker componets where the fountain lights originally were & I'm running 2 amps 1000 mono for the subs & a 4 channel 500 for the rest... Also installed 2 clarion Mw1 remotes, 1 by the swim deck 1 going around my dash somewhere... Will prolly be adding some kicker 4.5's up under the fairing or on the side of the dash & glove box.
Previous owner installed garbage 8 inch bazooka 2 ways where the fountain logo goes, basically limiting Me to find another 8 inch speaker... Could only find 2 brands focal access & the bazookas again. So I'm currently having a 9 inch circle cut out of 1/8th inch steel, w/ the cutouts for the 6.5 & the tweeter inside the 9 inch circle... Then have powder coated black to match my grab handles & seat frames, hopefully it looks good & will be unique.... If anyone would like pictures when it's finished I'll try & post some up...
Previous owner installed garbage 8 inch bazooka 2 ways where the fountain logo goes, basically limiting Me to find another 8 inch speaker... Could only find 2 brands focal access & the bazookas again. So I'm currently having a 9 inch circle cut out of 1/8th inch steel, w/ the cutouts for the 6.5 & the tweeter inside the 9 inch circle... Then have powder coated black to match my grab handles & seat frames, hopefully it looks good & will be unique.... If anyone would like pictures when it's finished I'll try & post some up...
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Currently installing 2 Cvx kicker 10's, 2 6x9 kickers under the rear bench, 2 6.5 kicker componets where the fountain lights originally were & I'm running 2 amps 1000 mono for the subs & a 4 channel 500 for the rest... Also installed 2 clarion Mw1 remotes, 1 by the swim deck 1 going around my dash somewhere... Will prolly be adding some kicker 4.5's up under the fairing or on the side of the dash & glove box.
Previous owner installed garbage 8 inch bazooka 2 ways where the fountain logo goes, basically limiting Me to find another 8 inch speaker... Could only find 2 brands focal access & the bazookas again. So I'm currently having a 9 inch circle cut out of 1/8th inch steel, w/ the cutouts for the 6.5 & the tweeter inside the 9 inch circle... Then have powder coated black to match my grab handles & seat frames, hopefully it looks good & will be unique.... If anyone would like pictures when it's finished I'll try & post some up...
Previous owner installed garbage 8 inch bazooka 2 ways where the fountain logo goes, basically limiting Me to find another 8 inch speaker... Could only find 2 brands focal access & the bazookas again. So I'm currently having a 9 inch circle cut out of 1/8th inch steel, w/ the cutouts for the 6.5 & the tweeter inside the 9 inch circle... Then have powder coated black to match my grab handles & seat frames, hopefully it looks good & will be unique.... If anyone would like pictures when it's finished I'll try & post some up...
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jmoore: If you haven't had them done yet I could get some made up for you no problem. I have a metal shop with CNC Plasma and a full powdercoating facility, so we could cut you up something that'd look factory.
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