First Arizona Thread....

[Naenyn]

Originally Posted by NickTurnon

No offense, but are you going for sound quality or just an obnoxious "Show car" system?

I don't know if you already have nav with your nismo, but...

For $1500 bucks, you can get an additional Double Din that you can run all of your music, movies, ipod, etc. thru. You can still run your Nismo NAV. (Have 2 Screens) You can build a custom box that looks just as good, put in a single 12" JL Audio sub with a QUALITY amp and QUALITY speakers ($350 for JL Speakers and tweeters) and you will have an awesome sounding car for 1/2 the price...

Now obviously if you want custom enclosures that are fiberglassed etc, then you can do that. But didn't know what your looking to do.

None taken. =] I'm going for sound quality. A bit of an audiophile.. and learning electronic music composition, so want the tunes to sound as good or better in my car than they do in my little recording studio.

Regarding what comes in the Nismo.. there was no Nav option. It was either Bose audio (which sounds decent) or stock stereo (which sounds pathetic). I was going to go with Bose and just replace the head unit (I want bluetooth a2dp, dammit. I know, audio quality...) but I decided that I'd be wasting a lot of money going that route. Sooo.. figured I'd go the extra mile and get a sound system I was really happy with.

I'm looking to do JL speakers all around, but not sure if I want one 12 or two 10s. Kinda leaning towards two 10s this time (had one 12 in a previous car). I also know nothing about amps, so dunno what I'm going to do there yet. I was leaning towards getting one of the new 2-DIN head units from Alpine. I don't really care about watching movies in my car, tho .. don't really care even about satellite or HD radio. CD/DVD audio, bluetooth a2dp... quality speakers/amp/sub. That's it for now.

I definitely do want to eventually get something installed in that cubby above the stereo, too. Just not sure what to do up there. It'd be nice to have some sort of system to hook in to the onboard diagnostics. Definitely open to ideas there.