Entertainment Electronics 1st Gen Most liked posts in thread: Put some parts to use

Stop stickin' yer fingers in places they shouldn't go!

 

This is the only kind of sub I have experience with. Yes a samitch....

 

Anytime Lee.

 

Yeah with the Alpine unit you get all the RCA's you need built right in. (Front Rear and Sub) with a separate control for the Sub level.

As for Dynamat in my car I have it covering everything now.
I removed the whole interior when I put in my Recaro seats and my rear seat delete.

Inner and outer front doors for excellent mid base from my 6.5 door speakers.
Inner and entire outer rear quarters for the 6x9s. They also produce nice tight bass.
The whole entire floor is done (firewall to back bumper) because well my header and MOTD exhaust.
I also did the inner and outer rear hatch and the back of my license plate. I hate little rattles. :mad2:

My car is very dead inside and it's perfect for nice audio unlike a stock MINI that sounds like a tin can with lots of little rattles and buzzes.

My wife says my car is quieter inside driving then her Lexus when I have just my Milltek exhaust on. Road noise is very low.

 

Buy the used one since its a media unit and has no CD player so it really has nothing really to break inside.

The 3 RCA outputs and iPod controls are really all you need. On and you can change the color display from Blue to Red to match your factory interior lights. Also if I remember correctly the outputs are like 4 volts which will help the signal to noise ratio meaning you can set the amps imput level low and still have lots of power for a clean signal.

People that use poor grounds, cheap RCA cables with no shielding tent to crank up the imput setting on the amp and that's whey people get the electrical "whine" becuase the are over working the amp.

 

Sorry I can't help I'm audio ignorant. I'm sure someone will chime in here & tell you how to wire that bad boy boom box up.

 

Sorry, I'm of no help...but *bump*!

That sub looks tasty...there's just something about oozing cheese...

 

Hold on Lee, those line level converters suck. Try looking into one of these. I had one before I got rid on my OEM radio.

Keep your OEM radio and look stock and stealth. FYI you really on need (1) 10 inch sub but since you have (1) good 12 that will do also. In no way do you need two 12's in a MINI.

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No you are not picky at all. That's how I have my Alpine 305 set up you see nothing, no wires. I ran the wire from the unit to my glove box. My 160 GB iPod classic is in the glove box and I never have to touch it unless I want to connect it to iTunes to update it.

The Alpine media unit I have has no CD player just AM FM (which I do not have connected) it's a full color display and shows Album artwork and works just like the iPod.