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Oct 4, 2015 | 11:13 AM

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superglide9375

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didn't know that spawne,but thats why i went with aftermarket amp because i didn't know why the two separate sets of wires but now that explains it,thought it was gm trying to not let u change out speakers lol

Oct 4, 2015 | 11:27 AM

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cmon you should know by now, nothing is impossible when it comes to me lol

Oct 5, 2015 | 09:23 AM

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yea,i forgot who i was talking to there for a minute lol

Oct 6, 2015 | 08:22 AM

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i thought we needed 4ohm speakers

Oct 6, 2015 | 08:46 AM

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i thought we needed 4ohm speakers

I've never had any issues running the JBL GTO's on 4ohm rated amps, as long as the amp doesnt overheat.

Oct 7, 2015 | 04:46 PM

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good to know. the replacements i put a few years back really didnt sound any better then the factory ones. but they were 4ohm

Oct 8, 2015 | 10:26 AM

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superglide9375

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if u use monsoon yea 4 ohm thats why i went aftermarket amp as i like infintys which are 2 ohm

Oct 17, 2015 | 08:18 AM

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Koren

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What size aftermarket did u use for these?

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Oct 17, 2015 | 10:33 AM

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superglide9375

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amp? went with 65W per channel,starting clipping and went to 90 w per channel alpine i can get u # if u want also have 12" sub and 600w mono alpine amp sound good to me as i listen to a lot of black sabbath and need my bass clean,lol

Oct 17, 2015 | 03:30 PM

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Mike The Canadian

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Hey buddy,

End up completing the swap?
How do you like the sound, low/mid/high compared to stock?

Good bass response?

Thanks,

Mike

Oct 17, 2015 | 04:58 PM

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I finally got the time to finish the swap. The JBL's sound really good. No comparison between them and the stock. Bass is very good. I also replaced the 3.5 inch speaker in the front. All in all it sounds 100% better. The rear JBL's are 6x9.

Oct 17, 2015 | 07:06 PM

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Mike The Canadian

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Nice,

I may do this to supplement stock instead of a brand new amp and speakers (for the time being at least)!

Oct 18, 2015 | 02:58 PM

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Nice,

I may do this to supplement stock instead of a brand new amp and speakers (for the time being at least)!

I agree, I kinda don't want my sub anymore and rather just have a nice flush sound system like in the maximas, granted they have subs in the rear deck, which I may do as well. I think the monte back is pretty well sealed from the trunk. I think this set w/ a nice 600 watt amp would do the trick. I made the mistake of getting 4 way speakers from Walmart cause the stock ones sucked when I had my 12 cvr hooked up

Oct 18, 2015 | 06:23 PM

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glad your happy with them, you mind posting up some pics of your rewire job you had to do?

Oct 19, 2015 | 08:19 AM

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so you added an amp to power the aftermarket speakers and kept the stock headunit?

Oct 21, 2015 | 04:13 PM

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I only replaced speakers. Everything else is still stock. I wish I had thought to take pictures but I didn't. I basically desoldered the plug off the stock speakers and soldered it back on the JBL's the same way it came off the stock speakers two wires went to the tweeter and two wires went to the main speaker. I just kept track of which wires went to the tweeter and which to the main part of the speaker.