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#1 ·
Hi guys.

I wondered if someone could shed some light on a problem I'm having. I recently bought a sub/amp combo and I'm wanting to install it but I was curious to know, will I need a new head unit? I've seen multiple videos online of people with i10s using the stock HU with a sub however the back of the HU doesn't look like it has any outputs for it. Hopefully someone here has some experience and can help me out.

Cheers
Colin
 
#2 ·
I bought a £35 (delivered) XOMAX unit - SD card player, 3.5mm in and USB plus RDS radio. With just the standard speakers compared to the stock single CD its a revelation. I have to have the volume between 2-6 out of 30 on it otherwise it hurts my ears.
The stock speakers on my car - 2005 LC Accent - are more than capable, its not the speakers that are the problem its the head units themselves which are, to put it bluntly, the bad side of utterly crap. When a £35 head unit makes so much of a difference you know that the stock head unit is baaaaad.
Personally I would ebay the kit you've bought and get hold of a reasonable head unit, XOMAX do some nice more expensive ones and use the stock speakers, if I set the base on mine too high it makes listening uncomfortable and would give even my Tegu a headache.
People always rip out the standard speakers because they think they're at fault for the poor sound and output - 80% of the time its not the case, companies install decent speakers (its easier/cheaper to just buy a speaker suitable for your top of the range car and use it everywhere) and then on the poverty-mobiles they install a pitiful head unit that would be more useful as a gunnery target - hence replacing just the head unit gives you much better sound because an aftermarket set will drive the speakers better and at the right resistance and voltages that the decent speakers require to work well, hence the better sound that doesnt sound like its been beamed from saturn and reproduced via a gramophone horn...
 
#3 · (Edited)
Unless you have the infiniti system. Hyundai uses some of the cheapest crap speakers ever made..

It's the first thing that SHOULD be replaced, stock head unit or not.

All you need is line out convertor for a stock head unit. If you want to add an amp. If your amp has a level adjustment knob best install it too somewhere easy to adjust your amp..
 
#4 ·
To answer your question with out getting into all the other dynamics of your OE sound system, all you will need is:

1) Hi to Low Line level converter.*
2) RCA cable*
3) Remote Delay Switch.
4) Power Wire (battery to unit)
5) In-Line fuse holder and fuse for Power Wire

*If the sub/amp combo you purchased has "HIGH LEVEL" inputs, then you don't need this converter or rca.
 
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