Headunitless Stereo System?

[kmarei]

IMO, gauges are worthless when they're down there. The whole point of them is to be able to see them at any time.

I have the one above the ashtray
But it's not like you spend all day drive with your eyes on the gauges
I look at them a few times for every drive to make sure everything is ok
And when the oil temp is high enough that I can push the engine
Once the oil temp is high enough, I give them a few glances
But certainly not enough to lose the headunit

[325ix]

I have a set of mb quart tweeters in the front pods. The P.O. put them in but, it doesn't look like it took too much work.

[Click]

Yeah the ashtray location is far too low. Vent location would be ideal but I don't want to lose my vents and the wiring would have have been a bit trickier. Head unit location is decent. Plus I had that single din gauge adapter sitting around doing nothing.

That JL-Audio device looks pretty nice. I'll put together a little list of components (and the lukebox will be on there) Luke and ask for your opinion. Do the factory tweeter pods work well with aftermarket tweeters any?

[yahh]

Why not put those gauges in the ashtray pod for sale on eBay
And reclaim your head unit slot?

IMO, gauges are worthless when they're down there. The whole point of them is to be able to see them at any time.

[kmarei]

Why not put those gauges in the ashtray pod for sale on eBay
And reclaim your head unit slot?

[StereoInstaller1]

Yes. Have done so several times. My preferred answer is the JL Audio CL-RLC.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/140891973831?_lwgsi=y&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Single knob, so no balance/fader or tone controls. I say a 5 channel amp, a single 10 or a single 12 (whoda thunk!) and either nice condition PS speakers or whatever front components and rear co-ax you come up with with a little tuning makes one damn fine sounding car.

You can also use 2 of them "cascaded" to make your sub level control match your volume, or use the level control that came with the amp.

GL and HTH,
Luke

[Click]

So I have no room for a head unit.



All I ever listen to is my iphone so I was thinking of throwing a system together and just having an ipod input run to the amp and a remote bass control knob mounted next to the defrost switch and controlling the volume with my iphone. Can this work or is a head unit a "must"?