This is my Summer install that I recently completed. The idea was to creat an install that was budget friendly, sounded nice, and looked clean. I have done two other installs in this car, but was never happy with them. I can now say I have found what I wanted.
Here is a audio flow chart of my install.
I'm an avid Alpine collector, so I went to my closet and dug out an old-school Alpine CDA-7940 pre-amp head unit. This is connected through AINet to an Alpine PXA-H701 processor. It's only used for radio and to control my cd changer. My tunes come from an Alpine CHA-S624 cd changer, which is connected to the PXA-H701 via a Phoenix Gold optical digital cable.
The front and rear speakers are Cadence CMW-6Kit components. In the front, the mid's were installed with a custom mdf ring in the doors. The tweeters were custom installed in the sail panels. In the rear, the mid's and tweeters where installed in a custom built box, which opens and houses the PXA-H701 and Cadence passive crossovers.
Opening the hatch reveals my Polk Audio db212-2 ported subwoofer enclosure. This is the first time I have gone with a pre-fabricated enclosure, and I am very impressed with it. It's not a "one-note wonder" like others and produces very accurate bass.
Folding the rear seats down inside the cab exposes the amp rack. An Eclipse XA400 4-channel amplifier runs the front and rear Cadence speakers, and a Hifonics BXI2006D monoblock amp runs the Polk subs. These two amps were from my previous install, and I decided to use them again because they are very efficient, and honestly, you can't beat them for the $. A Tsunamis 2-farad capacitor is also used.
A RUX-C701 controller is ran from the PXA-H701 to the center console...sorry I don't have pictures of this. After roughly measuring frequency responses using a SPL meter, I adjusted the graphic equalizer of the PXA to compensate for peaks and dips in frequency. Here is the final graphed measurements.