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Old May 8, 2010 | 05:50 PM
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I recently purchased an 01 z28 obviously equipped with the monsoon HU and amp. The front speakers were blown so i replaced them with some kenwoods. I ended up just capping off the tweeter wires. The system sounded better but still has very bad distortion with bass. I also upgraded the sail panel speakers with alpine type s 6 1/2's. Still the subs barely get any power and all the speakers distort easily. From what i am reading through others problems on here i think i have an issue with my amp. I was hoping someone could help out a little bit and also if you think it is my amp what can i upgrade to that i can purchase locally to run my setup. Thanks in advance.

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kenwood 2-ways in the doors
alpine 6 1/2 sails
stock hatch speakers for now
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Old May 8, 2010 | 08:06 PM
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I've read that the crappy head unit is the main cause of distortion. Try replacing that imo.
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Old May 9, 2010 | 08:04 AM
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Well, let's see... You replace (upgrade?) the components in the doors with coaxials and leave an amplified channel unused. Then you replace 6.5" 2-ohm subs with 6.5" 4-ohm coaxials (full-range) in the sail panels. Yet you don't see how these mismatched speakers might affect sound quality?
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it was doing this before hand. Even worse actually. The people at best buy weren't much help. i may just get rid of the stock hu and amp. this thing is really startin to annoy me. The only problem is i would rather have the stock look
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Old May 9, 2010 | 08:53 AM
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the sails are two ways but with separate tweeters and wires im not using
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