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Originally Posted by daki50
I was thinking about Keenwood or Kappa Infinity speakers (have you heard of them)? I would also replace the factory DSP amplifier with some aftermarket if it will improve the sound in the vehicle a lot. I see that everyone also puts crossovers for the speakers and then connects them to the amplifier, can anyone tell me what you get with that?
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In that case, you'll find
this thread I did on a DSP integration harness interesting. Gives the wire pinouts/colors for the harnesses at the DSP amplifier.
Removing the DSP amp and going aftermarket gives more speaker options, and of course more power. The quality of the sound of my front stage now is unbelievable. My wife had the B&O system in her F15 X5 and is not happy now after spending the weekend in my X5. I am running 3 amps, 2 5 channel amps, and 1 mono amp. Still working some kinks out, but am very happy with how it's coming out.
I did Infinity Kappa 3 way component speakers up front. 6" door woofers, 2" dash mids, and 1" tweeters. They are on sale right now btw, if you're interested in them. They are all 2.5ohm drivers. Likely wouldn't pair well with the DSP amp, but on aftermarket amps (that are 2ohm
stereo capable) they sound awesome. I am not using any of the crossovers they sent as I am using an Audiocontrol DSP and the amps to control the speakers on an individual basis in terms of frequencies they receive.
Kenwood speakers I have limited experience with. But as long as they use a textile tweeter of some sort (silk or otherwise) I'm sure they'd be great. Metallic tweeters are too bright for me and end up a little tinny.
If you go with a 4 channel amplifier to power your interiors, then use the included crossovers for the components. This will allow you to power more drivers with the limited amplification channels. Passive crossovers can sound great too. I wanted to go full active since I was using a 10 channel DSP and could handle all the speakers in an X5.
But what I am doing is a huge pain in the @$$. I don't recommend it to any normal person.