Hi All

I am wanting to upgrade the sound system in my vRS, am taking delivery of a Parrott RKi8400 on wednesday and want to upgrade thefront and rear speakers as well.

I'm not sure where to start, for the fronts i have read i will need shallow mount speakers??

what i really need advice on is the rears, and amp - i know the Parrott has an exceptional amp but i'm not sure if it'll run fronts, rears and possibly a sub, and still achieve decent SQ.

Any fitting advice, hardware / wiring advice will be much appreciated!

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cheers all lol

There's so many different options you can take, its really entirely up to yourself. If you have a heap of money to throw at it, then just get amps, speakers etc and do it all at once. If you want to take things a bit slower (and cheaper) do things bit by bit.

Replace the headunit and see what difference that makes to the sound, you will probably be suprised. Then follow these steps until you get the sound you're after:

1. Sound deaden the front doors, inner and outer skin with a few bits on the door card. You'll find this makes a HUGE difference to the sound quality from the front mids.

2. Replace the front mids and tweeters

3. Amp the front mids (get a 4ch amp for the next step)

4. Get yourself a Sub. Personally a 10" will probably be fine. Use the two remaining channels on the amp bridged for the sub

5. Sound deaden the boot, wheel arches, tailgate.

You can do all these steps, or you might find the sound sounds great after just sound deadening. The OEM skoda speakers aren't really that bad if your not intending to amp them.

Shallow fit speakers aren't a requirement, but do make life easy. I forget exactly what the maximum depth is, get an adaptor and try the speakers you pick. You can always shim out the adaptor with deadending material if you need anymore clearance. There really isn't a definate max depth, you'll need to measure it.

Thanks simon!!!

Hi All

I am wanting to upgrade the sound system in my vRS, am taking delivery of a Parrott RKi8400 on wednesday and want to upgrade thefront and rear speakers as well.

I'm not sure where to start, for the fronts i have read i will need shallow mount speakers??

what i really need advice on is the rears, and amp - i know the Parrott has an exceptional amp but i'm not sure if it'll run fronts, rears and possibly a sub, and still achieve decent SQ.

Any fitting advice, hardware / wiring advice will be much appreciated!

I initially put an Alpine CDE-9880R head unit in mine, which did help things a bit, but still sounded weak.

So then decided to upgrade the front speakers with some Infinity REF6522SI two-way speakers. With a 53mm mounting depth, they just fitted. But the sound has probably got worse! The tweeter is too low now obviously, and it sounds pretty dull.

I've left the rear speakers, and they are totally standard.

My plan is to fit some Alpine SPE-17SF components up front, and reinstate the high level tweeters. Hopefully they should improve things, and they will easily fit since they have a mounting depth of only 38mm.

If that doesn't help then I'll put some better rear components in, and if that still sounds crappy I'll resort to using a sub box....

Edited 13 April, 201115 yr by Bodge

I initially put an Alpine CDE-9880R head unit in mine, which did help things a bit, but still sounded weak.

So then decided to upgrade the front speakers with some Infinity REF6522SI two-way speakers. With a 53mm mounting depth, they just fitted. But the sound has probably got worse! The tweeter is too low now obviously, and it sounds pretty dull.

I've left the rear speakers, and they are totally standard.

My plan is to fit some Alpine SPE-17SF components up front, and reinstate the high level tweeters. Hopefully they should improve things, and they will easily fit since they have a mounting depth of only 38mm.

If that doesn't help then I'll put some better rear components in, and if that still sounds crappy I'll resort to using a sub box....

The componants will probably make a huge difference to the sounds, but truthfully i wouldn't bother doing anything to the rears - possibly adding a sub in there will help. Look at sound-proofing, bang for buck is by far the hugest upgrade you can do without spending ridiculous amounts of cash.