I got rid of my Alpine radio cause i found someone who would actually pay me what I paid for it its 5 months old. So I put the stock radio back in and was wondering if anybody has it hooked up to amps with some kind of rca hook up?I think its called line out converter. I already can tell the differance from switching back to the stock radio but dont want to buy a new one cause I'm gona save up for Alpine IVA-W200
tv dvd player. I just want to know if the sound quality that bad. I want to hook my amp and subs back up mean while. THanks in advance

 

Wow you guys are full of tons of helpful info.

 

maybe you should wait more than like 40 mins for a response.

the stock radio is ok. it doesn't have much bass to it, but the highs and mids are decent. add a sub and you should be fine.

don't forget to change the sound level to "feel" and the car type to "xA". the one labeled tc is super weak and the xB is good, but xA has the loudest and fullest range.

 

Finally someone I just want to no if my subs will sound descent hooked up the stock radio

 

They will sound good. I have a sub and amp hooked up to my car right now and it sounds pretty good. Bass is set to -3 and I'm running 500 watts.

 

Thanks was it hard to hook up and what did you use?

 

I just used the high level inputs(tapping into speaker wire). I didn't want to do that part so I took it to a local shop and they put it in for $30. They also tuned it and hid everything.

 

I just bought the line out converter now I just gotta figure out which wires are which

 

I think mine sounds good. Good enough for me.

 

Just hooked it up the speakers dont sound as clear and loud like when i had my alpine cd player but the subs sound the same so i'm happy.