Matt L. You are SO right.I have a Chrysler 300 with the Beats system.It has one " subwoofer" in the center rear deck and one subwoofer in an enclosure in the trunk.Im still waiting to hear the bass.If it was up to me I would buy a car with NO audio, no radio, no speakers, no amp.I never keep my factory components anyway.

you don't think it will mess up the insight's electronics if you add any aftermarket amps/processors etc? where will you get your power, straight from the battery?

Seinfeld Costanza it won’t mess with it any more then with any other vehicle. You connect your amps to the 12 volt battery just as you would any other vehicle.

Thanks for the info, bro! Tackling the. '18 CivicSi and this info is very useful. Kudos.

Thanks for that, I checked and it doesn’t seem to work with a Honda Odyssey. Any chance you know if it will be compatible?

@@jamesyu4182 I don’t know and I no longer have this unit installed. Unfortunately it caused a lot of echo issues with the hands free calling and could not be remedied. It is my advice to avoid attempting such in any of the Honda vehicles with digital amps.

I wish I had known all this before buying my 2019 honda accord. Sound is life and these new cars suck!!

For real though. And then full Karen meltdown if you tell them it's going to take longer.

I've been curious about this too

If they are very high quality factory speakers such as a Mark Levinson system in a Lexus especially with digital inputs on the amp, just do nothing more than adding a subwoofer otherwise leave it alone. If you plan to put in aftermarket system shortly after buying a car, do your research if it has digital crap in it that audio control does not yet have a solution for. Cars that come with CarPlay especially if the factory radio comes with a 192KHz 24 but DAC, an aftermarket head unit is a waste of money and not worth doing. In older cars that use analog steering wheel controls instead of digital, putting in an aftermarket so cheap in terms of parts you need in addition to aftermarket radio that you will be a lot more likely to spring for that expensive 10 inch floating screen radio.

i agree , although the source had some sort of digital ouutput that mabee you can run that to a processor of some sort, and keep the factory look

Does this piece work on your 18-22 accord touring I just got one and I’m trying to do this if so

I was waiting for someone to mention that car. I knew as soon as I said it somebody would bring that up. Good one!

Chicago price $2,500 to $3,800. crazy price!

I had this done on my 2019 accord sport. Had to put in a DSR1 signal processor inside the dash to convert the line level speaker wires from factory head unit down to RCAs that the amps can use. I recommend having it done professionally, it's a massive amount of work on this car... My one other tip is make sure they disconnect the ANC or you'll get a weird humming sound.

We love PAC as you know but for Toyota’s I only use iDatalink RR’s.

Did you ever do what you were trying to do.. I replaced all my speakers kicker components in font doors and rear deck and a kicker coaxial in the center and I put an 8" comp c in the rear deck all fed by the factory amp then I tapped into the sub channel and added a cxa1200.1 and added 1 12" skar vfx. Sounds decent but now I want to add a amp for all the other speakers but I don't know where to get the signal from. Front woofers or rear woofers

@@heavypupper1219With this "premium audio" system Honda used, there is a separate signal to each of the speakers, and it's specific to that speaker. For example, the wire to the front tweeter ONLY has the signal range intended for the tweeter - not a full signal range. So, what I did was get signal from the two rear tweeters and the two rear woofers. I ran all 4 signals into my LC-4.800 and summed the signals, which made it so my output from the amp was full signal. Since I only took my signal.from the rear speakers, I lost fader control and I don't have any sound from the center speaker, but I sounds great. The other problem was that I lost the ability to use the car speakers for phone calls. Apparently phone calls are only played through the front speakers.... I've considered running additional signal wires from the front speakers to my amp so the phone and center speaker would work, but that's a lot of work so I haven't done it.

@@thegravytrain1129 thanx for your response, most ppl don't ever respond. I was thinking about using kicker loc 46KISLOC2 which is suppose to turn the signal flat from the 2 front woofers to an eq which will in return give me 6 rca outputs 2 for the subwoofer amp , 4 for for a 5 channel amp and that amp to to the door and rear components then use the cross overs to feed the tweeters. My sub amp has rca out which I'll use to the 5th channel on the 5 channel amp for the rear deck sub. And ill let the factory amp feed the center channel. I know that was alot of explaining but if you got what I was saying do you think it will work.

How’s it going what are the front mid and tweeter colors of the wires I’m going to sum the signals to get a signal