DSP is Garbage, anyone "delete" it and amp up with an afermarket?

[wullaby]

On1 I have a 4 channel amp running all 8 of my my stock speakers no problem, sounds great!

[cslee]

Originally Posted by wullaby

I had a DSP amp water got in and it died. I never took it out, mounted a 4 channel above it to run my 8 factory speakers, tapped into the remote wire and spliced into the speaker wires right there at the dsp amp. Changed the head unit and added another amp opposite side in the rear as well (removed the factory subwoofer box) and mounted amp there to drive my subs. Its' about a 6-8hr job. If your really good, maybe 4 hrs. I switch my subs from three 12" woofers to a single 10" apline depending if i need cargo space!

wullaby, This is an old thread. Can I ask you how you made this work. I want to remove the DSP AMP. Replace it with after market, 4x100W. But my issue now is how to connect the output of the 4x100W to the speakers without any crossovers. The speakers do not have built it crossovers. all the wires from the front tweeter, Mid-range and Low-range speakers are coming to the DSP AMP. So the Left Front will have 6-wires, Right Front 6-wires, Right-Rear 4-wire, Left-Rear 4 wires. Total 20 wires.
Can you give some insight? What model of AMP did you use.

[romeokc10]

I read on some of the other BMW sites that the Alpine PDX-5 is good amp to use, has the right features and it fits in the factory bracket.

[cslee]

Originally Posted by romeokc10

I read on some of the other BMW sites that the Alpine PDX-5 is good amp to use, has the right features and it fits in the factory bracket.

romeokc10, thanks for the info. Do you also know which steering wheel control works for the 2001 X5

[bcredliner]

Rather than work through all the issues replacing DSP and upgrading sound system I purchased a complete system from BSW, complete with all speakers, subwoofer and amp.
It took some time but it was an easy install. I am very happy with the vast improvement and all existing controls work as before.