After tolerating the stock stereo for the past several months I decided to upgrade the stereo.
I had originally planned for Infinity Kappa component replacements and an under seat sub, but my car audio guy said it wouldn't be worth it, and let me demo a car with Kappas all around, and while it sounded better, it wasn't $300 better.
He advised me to just add the sub, . And after researching between the Kicker, JBL, and Alpine options, I decided on the JBL for the musicality of it.
So after having the JBL BassPro SL in my car for the past few days, I'm satisfied with the audio to not upgrade it anymore for now. While, I don't care for the stock tweeters much, they can be EQed to not be obnoxious.
I was worried about taking away the foot space for someone sitting behind the seat with the sub, but it turns out to be perfectly fine, and you can maintain having 4 adults fit in the car, or even a 5th one in the back in a pinch, and of course I kept all my cargo space in the trunk.
I recommend it to anyone looking for a job intrusive way to fill out the sound.
In terms of output, it can still get to hearing loss inducing levels with the thump of upper bass, and with the in unit volume control and bass boost, it has enough control to tweak the sound to my liking.
I'm in my thirties so I don't need headache inducing levels of bass, but this can give it. So I don't see why anyone would Ned more bass output than this with my gain/level knob being less than 60% on the.dial and the bass boost at minimum to 30% raised on the dial with my EQ flat on the stock head unit. Your ear drums can easily get pulsed at these levels.
My source is subscription level Google Play music at high bitrate.
I've attached some pictures.
Posted this because everyone and their mom suggests getting an actual subwoofer with decent volume for proper bass output, and that these are anemic, but I find this option leagues better than the upgrade stereo sub and, when adjusted.for.my hearing tastes, just as good, if not better than bigger trunk options
I had originally planned for Infinity Kappa component replacements and an under seat sub, but my car audio guy said it wouldn't be worth it, and let me demo a car with Kappas all around, and while it sounded better, it wasn't $300 better.
He advised me to just add the sub, . And after researching between the Kicker, JBL, and Alpine options, I decided on the JBL for the musicality of it.
So after having the JBL BassPro SL in my car for the past few days, I'm satisfied with the audio to not upgrade it anymore for now. While, I don't care for the stock tweeters much, they can be EQed to not be obnoxious.
I was worried about taking away the foot space for someone sitting behind the seat with the sub, but it turns out to be perfectly fine, and you can maintain having 4 adults fit in the car, or even a 5th one in the back in a pinch, and of course I kept all my cargo space in the trunk.
I recommend it to anyone looking for a job intrusive way to fill out the sound.
In terms of output, it can still get to hearing loss inducing levels with the thump of upper bass, and with the in unit volume control and bass boost, it has enough control to tweak the sound to my liking.
I'm in my thirties so I don't need headache inducing levels of bass, but this can give it. So I don't see why anyone would Ned more bass output than this with my gain/level knob being less than 60% on the.dial and the bass boost at minimum to 30% raised on the dial with my EQ flat on the stock head unit. Your ear drums can easily get pulsed at these levels.
My source is subscription level Google Play music at high bitrate.
I've attached some pictures.
Posted this because everyone and their mom suggests getting an actual subwoofer with decent volume for proper bass output, and that these are anemic, but I find this option leagues better than the upgrade stereo sub and, when adjusted.for.my hearing tastes, just as good, if not better than bigger trunk options
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