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Old Aug 9, 2003 | 09:43 PM
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I know nothing about car audio at all, other then, an amp juices a woofer, and speakers make noise. That is about it. My problem is that I just instaled the DEH-P77DH from Pioneer. I love the lookof it, but can't get any bass. The woofers don't work. I was told that I need an amp to make it work now, what the HELL! ! I spent all the damn money to buy the thing, now I have to buy amps!!!! Well, I would like to know what amp is recomended on a car with stock Subs, and no plans on changing it. What sould I do, money is a big issue, im only 16 and have very little mony after payng for the car.
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Old Aug 10, 2003 | 11:31 AM
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if you install a head unit then you need rca's to go to the amp then power to the amp and then hook up the speakers to the amp and it should work i think
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Old Aug 10, 2003 | 12:58 PM
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That looks like a monsoon headunit on your cardomain page. If you didn't change anything but the headunit, I would say you have a wiring problem. I could be completely wrong. The monsoon system amps the speakers, I tried to change just the rear kick panel speakers in my monsoon system and it sounded like crap, I haven't changed my headunit yet, cuz I'm afraid I'll have to change all the speakers too. Anyway, I'd check the wiring. Good luck

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Old Aug 10, 2003 | 09:21 PM
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It is wired correct, it is that the amp was built in the tape deck. It is a "500" watt monsoon system.
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Old Aug 10, 2003 | 09:39 PM
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The monsoon has a seperate amplifier.
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Old Aug 10, 2003 | 09:41 PM
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Kidfreak, your gonna need to take some time and think about this. You cant do a halfway job on a camaro with the monsoon system, it just wont work well enough to warrant doing.

Do a search for "monsoon" and youll see that resistance is futile, you have to change head-units, speakers, amps, and wiring to make it work right. I know from experience.
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Old Aug 11, 2003 | 10:41 PM
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I just recently replaced only the head unit. It sounded slightly better, but not much.
Other than that you should have the oh so glorious Monsoon sound

The problem you're having sounds like many of the first 4th gen installs that I heard done. The sail panel speakers are not wired properly. You can hear rear fill because of the hatch speakers, but the wolfers next to the rear seat are not playing anything. This happened to a friend's TA that he had "professionaly" installed. I pulled it out and rewired it for him properly and it sounded much better.
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