Quote Originally Posted by ryana89 View Post
I was actually looking at a pioneer too, then I found this
I assumed poor speakers = bad sound?
I find the headunit makes a MASSIVE difference in sound quality, the oem mk3 ones were pretty awful. Run off an amp with a HPF to block the bass to them, the stock mk3 speakers actually sound pretty damn good in my opinion. I've been running stock speakers amped for a couple years now, had planned on upgrading them when I bought my sound system but ran out of funds. I eventually blew the stock tweeters and so put in some new ~$100 (which i realise is pretty cheap and nasty relatively) speakers in and they sounded like ass compared to the mk3 ones, so I sold them to a friend, bought some jaycar tweeters and put the stock speakers back in the doors. I'll upgrade them one day when I can afford a nice set, but until then, I'll keep running the stock ones, for what they are they're actually pretty good in my opinion.



My headunit at the moment glows green, but it looks far from oem. I'm not a fan of it's appearance, but it does everything else I want An older pioneer one probably is the way to go, they make some really nice headunits