Upgrading audio for under $800?

[BMW-M-Freak]

BMW-M-Freak,

AOL is the only IM software that I don't have an ID, I have Yahoo, MSN and ICQ, if you happen to have any of them, please let me know so we can talk there.

Thank you very much for the reply, as you can see, I have changed my topic from $800 budget to $1000. It looks like you get a good deal in purchasing those parts ! I do have couple questions for you:

(1) In opposite to your upgrade, the head unit is the last thing I want to change, because I have done a little bit research an dppl say the Alpine CD performs actually surprisingly good.

(2) How many channels does your MRD-M300 support? How many channels does a normal user need ?

I'm really not audio nut, I just can't accept the sound quality of the stock system, can you please give me your opinion about the upgrade Phase I at this link?

http://www.adst.com/pdfs/bmwe46.pdf

Comparing to yours, it enphasizes in amp and speaker, and I wish to know what you think about that.

Aight- as far as the link goes, mine is none of the above. the MRD-M300 is a mono sub amp. All of my regular car speakers are wired up to the Head Unit (the V-drive 60x4 amp inside is enough). I don't know many people who use a seperate amp just for their regular speakers. Anyone who does is a serious audio nut and is spending serious $$$ for their system (1.5 plus)

Considering i've got my speakers hooked up into the amp in my head unit, I only needed a mono amp for my sub. It's capable of around 300 watts into a 2 ohm load. If I were you, I'd just stick with one good sub, as two takes up a lot of trunk space. Make sure you get a sub that is designed to make a two ohm load, or a 4 ohm with Dual Voice Coils so you can wire it in parrallel and get the same effect to get the most power from your amp. If you get a normal 4 ohm sub and wire it right up, you'll only get 150 watts. Hence V=I x R

I'll probably put trillian on my computer sometime this weekend, so i can talk to you later about it. I took off the windows messenger b/c it's gay...

 

[BMW-M-Freak]

And another thing, you said you were going to upgrade the HU last. If you do decide to get a multi channel amp and speakers before you do a new head unit, make sure you get one that accepts speaker level inputs. I seriosuly doubt that your stock HU has a pair of RCA jacks to plug into the amp.