Rundown of higher end coaxial speakers

[wfbacker]

I haven't been able to find a place to listen to the Quart marine speakers, but their stuff is traditionally audiophile-grade (top shelf).

I've been fiddling with the equalizer controls in the stock Sony unit driving the Kicker speakers that came with my 210, and the sound is good enough that it's not an upgrade priority at this time. If only they left enough room on the dash to mount a chartplotter somewhere...

MB Quart is absolutely top shelf.

[TwoBurgers]

One thing I forgot to mention is that the stock Sony deck has a good amount of adjustability. I spent a fair amount of time adjusting the four parameters (high, mid, low, and sub) and was pretty happy with the sound I was able to get out of it. The previous owner had not adjusted it, and the base setting sound was quite flat. I listen to classic rock via Pandora when in the car or boat, so the signal I receive is fairly good, and seems to match the speakers. I also added a cheap blue tooth receiver since my deck did not have that option.
That Polk amp you listed sure is a good buy. The 800 watt JL option is four times the price.

[Big Block Power]

Not sure why but I was going to add my kicker amp last weekend because I knew the factory added extra 12v and ground cables to the head unit for there premium sound option. They are about a 8 guage wire. I'm not running a sub so I think that's fine. But when I went to check to see if the cables had power they didn't. So now I need to know where the other end is connected to or where they fused it. I couldn't believe it was dead. It's kind of a pain because you have to crawl into the cubby and remove a panel. I didn't care too much because of the wife but I would like a clean sound instead of the half muffled sound I get now without a amp.

[Big Block Power]

Ok I got to thinking while in bed. Better to think about the boat then work.lol I don't have the batteries in the boat I just had my little jump pack on battery 1. I thought I bet they have it running off of battery 2. So I checked and yep they did. It goes right to the battery switch not the batteries and the circuit breakers are right by the switch under the starboard rear seat. So another day I'll go play with it and maybe get the amp installed.

[Ytmsn]

I added a 10 inch Kicker subwoofer with a 500 watt amp and 6 Polk speakers with an 800 watt amp. It really rocks! The 4 cabin speakers are wired to the amp and the two bow speakers run off of the head unit. I'm not much of a stereo guy but this is a really clean crisp sound. Kudos to the Polks!

[Big Block Power]

Yt that's how I'm going to try to wire mine. I got a big kicker sub for free that fits in my storage behind the port bow seat. Going to see how that works pretty soon I hope.

[Ytmsn]

That's a good place. My sub and amps are starboard behind the bow seat and it sounds great. My port seat is stationary because the head is behind it. I also have a control knob to the sub mounted under the dash to turn it up or down. I fiddled with it a lot at first, but now I pretty much leave it where it is. If I heard something buzzing I would track it down and try to eliminate it, but it's all worked out now.

[Big Block Power]

Ok I got to thinking while in bed. Better to think about the boat then work.lol I don't have the batteries in the boat I just had my little jump pack on battery 1. I thought I bet they have it running off of battery 2. So I checked and yep they did. It goes right to the battery switch not the batteries and the circuit breakers are right by the switch under the starboard rear seat. So another day I'll go play with it and maybe get the amp installed.

Just to update this post. There are two amp cables prerun and Cobalt only attached one of them to the circuit breaker right above the perko in the starboard back seat storage spot. You can get to the perko from the engine area through a access hole after you remove the cover. That is where the other amp lead wire was and was disconnected. It did run off either 1or2 on the perko.