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They definitely did a nice job.
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Thanks. Very happy.
I got her fired up today too.
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Damn it! I usually have her home by now but been so busy.

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4 "upgrades" so far. Amazing how quickly $1K disappeared from my wallet.

1/ Did the Sony head unit swap (same deck as BB posted on page 2). Well worth the $125 and a few hours to install.
2/ New fuel pump thanks to the notorious Volvo pump whine. Painful to buy at $700+, but not that bad of an install. Worth every penny to have the boat running smooth and reliably. Will keep old pump and rebuild so I have a swap unit.
3/ New FPR to go with pump (old one had clogged screen).
4/ New Optima marine battery to replace weak #2 battery.

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Try sail rite they have some good stuff there.
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Just got these in today.More pictures of the install coming.
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Got the cockpit ones in. The fronts are too deep they hit the hull do now I need to find spacers. Didn't install the amp yet but a big improvement already.
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I'm far from an audiophile but the clarity is great. You really don't get any distortion with volume whereas my stock speakers had okay volume but the louder they got the more you lost the quality. That's the thing I like most I can turn up the sound just a bit and hear it loud and clear without making the boat bounce.
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Interested in outcome. I come diwn a bit on the audiophile side. So adding 2 more to back soon. Gonna need another amp too. So not sure if I'll stay with same Rockford Fosgate for the 2 adds. Pleased with the 6+sub now though. Read up on JL and Wetsounds.
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So far happy. But now I have to run all new speaker wires. Cobalt tied the front bow speaker to the corresponding front cockpit speaker. I was going to run all four cockpit speakers to the amp and the bow speakers to the head. So now more wiring coming up. Not sure I'm going to add a sub yet. These have some really good bass. I also got 1/2 spacers from best buy so the bow speakers are installed now. Can't even really tell they are there.
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Those look great BB! You can't go wrong with good amps. Mine is 800 watts for the 4 cabin speakers. The head unit powers the bow speakers, and my subwoofer has a 500 watt mono amp. It is crystal clear and can be cranked way louder than anything I'm used to..
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Looking good! Add the sub! Even if it sounds great now you will like (I can tell by now) the sub (and another amp) I assure you!
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I pulled the sub out for now.it's a heavy beast. Heck I think it weighs as much as a kid. I'll wait till I get the amp in and the speakers rewired see how it sounds then I might have to get another amp. It looks like cobalt ran two 12v wires there for amps. They could be heavier guage though. Not sure why they didn't do that.
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Ok I got the amp in and temp wired up. I'm changing all the speaker wires. So ok they ran two 8 guage wires feeds for two amps. So I checked power on one and no power. Traced it back to the circuit breaker by the perko. Yep power! So now I have to do more digging. Removed the cover in the engine area to get at the perko and started pulling wires and guess what it's disconnected there. So I tested number two amp wire and it had power. Cobalt never connected both of them. Unreal. So got the amp installed looks great works great. When I run new speaker wires I'll run RGB Cable along and put it to a led Bluetooth controller for the speaker leds. Right now I just have them on the blue led.
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We'll have to meet up. I'm wondering how the wetsounds compare to my polks. I still need to add the amp though.
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