![]() OEM (original equipment manufacturer) integration refers to upgrading your vehicle’s speakers, subwoofers, or car amplifier, while keeping your factory head unit. That’s when you need expert OEM integration from Sound Sensations. Upgrading your car audio means getting each individual component to flawlessly work together. Most factory car speakers just don’t have what it takes to provide enough detail for you to enjoy music the way you want to. It seems like you can get everything you need to enjoy your drive with just a tap on your screen. These days, newer vehicles come with some remarkable infotainment centers. I'm interested in any feedback on this idea from those who have wrestled with upgrading the sound system in their hundy and I'll post pictures of the build and finished system in a few weeks.Match Your Factory Head Unit With a New Car Amplifier and Speakers Or the macdaddy Alpine Halo 9" (who needs to reach the temperature adjust buttons anyway? ![]() Pioneer 7" flip out display with Apple Car Tunes There are also other single DIN options if you wanted to get more elaborate including: That way the radio will have an inexpensive almost stock look, but with lots of goodies under the seat and behind the speaker grills (to deter theft). ![]() I'm going with a bare-bones HD tuner with no CD/DVD etc for under $120. With the single DIN slot, you have a lot of options for a head-end. Steering wheel sound controls will be integrated into the new head end. Then we can kill the legacy amp under the passenger seat to make space for a nice new 5 channel or 6 channel amp (without having to figure out how to tuck it somewhere in the dash space). This allows us to keep the integrity of the climate system, but while removing the dependence on the radio head unit for an audio signal to the amp. Then we'll install a single DIN receiver in the opening where the stock radio was. We'll keep the nav display with the "soft" climate control buttons and just be replacing the radio head unit in the single DIN slot. So we are going to move the radio head unit from the dash and put in in the center console where we are removing the (also useless) 6-disk CD changer is and use it solely as a communications hub. The only thing you have to keep the radio head unit for is for the CAN wires and communications that drive the climate controls. My biggest concern was the thought of keeping the factory head-end and amp and relying on these to perform as a very weak link in the chain of an expensive system.īut my installer came up with what I think is a great idea. I have heard about lots of efforts to remedy this major design flaw (Maestro RR - which doesn't have a workable solution for the 04 hundys and a crowd funded effort that seemed to fizzle out in 2014 that was trying to come up with a customized harness and software to allow replacement of the entire stereo, nav and climate system)įor the new system I am installing I want to go mid-high end with Focal flax speakers and Audio Control 6 channel amp with integrated DSP. Talk about a lot of points of failure (on very old equipment) and places for noise to sneak into a new system. In doing more research, I found that the biggest limitation of the proprietary setup in the 04's with Nav is that if you want to upgrade the amp, you have to keep the legacy amp as the factory head unit sends a digital signal to the factory amp and then you have to pick up that signal at line voltage and either use an LC or a DSP to condition it to line-in's to a new amp. I have seen a bunch of threads on this topic and everyone has talked about how it's near impossible to replace the head unit because of the integrated climate controls, navigation system, etc. I'm new to the IH8MUD forums and am looking to replace the factory radio system (head-unit, amp and speakers).
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