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So I just bought a 370 base with sport package, meaning no Bose, only two 6.5" door speakers and two tweeters. The previous owner put in an aftermarket HU (Alpine IVA-W505). I also saw that there is a thick gauge power cable with a fuse going towards the hatch, so I assume he used to have an amp/sub.

My issue is that there is almost no bass coming out of the 6.5" door speakers. I don't know if these are stock or aftermarket. I tried changing settings on the HU to max bass, and it doesn't change it that much. I test drove a base 370Z with the OEM system, and it had much more bass.

I'm pretty inexperienced with audio systems. What could be going on that the component speakers aren't outputting any bass? I'm going to buy an amp/sub/box soon after doing some research, but it'd be nice to at least have speakers that sound better than my cell phone speakers in the meanwhile.

Thanks.

Deception

iTrader: (2)

Probably the stock speakers were put back in the door, check them, also look to use an amp with aftermarket speakers, you're not going to the best results with running the speakers to the head unit.

franknstn

I got my car last week and it has a custom setup too, the previous owner has all the bass coming out of the sub and the highs were turned up all the way at the front, I can't think of any scenario how his setup sounded good. Playing with the settings I was able to adjust the audio to have reasonable acoustics, the speakers are really tinny though, not sure what kind he has installed, I have yet to check them out.