I have a pair of 6.5'' kicker speakers with an amp in my jeep hooked up. I would like to trade speakers from Jeep to s2k. The question is do i need my amp in order to improve sound quality over stock. Just for the record I am keeping stock head unit.

 

You can certainly keep the stock HU and use new speakers, but the improvement would be limited since the stock HU is, well, a POS.

I would recommend spending even a couple hundred bucks or so on a cheap after market unit to get some decent tunes going. You will be glad you did from both a sound and feature standpoint since the OEM unit really doesn't do anything well IMO.

 

Well I have the amp in my jeep that i could use to power the speakers....I guess ill have to hook up the amp. Which is a pain in the ass considering i have only done it one other time.
Thx for the help

 

So you are going to hook the amp up to the stock head unit? The stock head unit has no RCA outputs so you would have to use a line converter which will sound like poo.

Is there a certain reason you are attached to the OEM head unit? A decent aftermarket HU should be able to push the speakers with no amp and sound good enough for what you want to do.

 

Well I rather SAVE money then spend it. Then i realized that i have 2 speakers and an amp in my jeep so why not try and use it? I think ill just stick with my stock speakers if just switching them out wont help anything. Thx for all you guys help!