g'day I'm Brett in this video I'm going to show you how I've upgraded my sound
system in my defender now the sound system that came from the factory
especially if it's pre TD5 is likely to be very basic I've had a major
improvement in the sound quality my system dominantly has focused on the
mids and high level just to penetrate through that noise of the engine so I
now have a pretty decent sound when touring to listen to and enjoy music so
let's take a look now at my installation I have new five and a quarter inch front
and four inch rear speakers and a pioneer amplifier the four channel
Pioneer amplifier produces 45 watts RMS and 100 Watts peak per channel and is
highly compact the amplifier is plug and play requiring additional harnesses
for the installation such as my sony to iso harness and the harness for the
speakers a fuse and power cable are required capable of carrying 15 amps i
start the installation by removing my stereo from my Raptor dash so I can
access the wiring then the new harness for the speakers is connected heat
shrink is used to insulate the wires and finally plug all the connections into
the amplifier wiring the Sony head unit has a CD radio USB and auxiliary input
perfect for connecting an iPod For the front the car originally came with 4
inch speakers I've upgraded those to five and a quarter inch some of the
material has to be cut away in order to fit these I just use the little Dremel
drill with a cutting disk and just cut around to make enough room to
fit them in properly there's plenty of room on the driver side to fit a fairly
deep speaker which is good when upgrading the passenger-side speaker
it's likely you'll have an issue as all aftermarket speakers are a lot deeper
than the originals and the windscreen wiper motor is directly behind here
so you will need to add some spaces in order to fit I've got two spaces and
that hasn't presented any issue with people getting in and out of the vehicle
and hitting their knees so that's just one extra little purchase you'll need to
make the original rear panel was replaced with an aluminium replica which
I made using a jigsaw and the original as a template into this I fitted the 4
inch speakers I've installed the amplifier directly below the head unit
along the dash. It's very compact and easily fits. Now this has settings for a front
low or high pass filter which I have set to OFF 2 or 4 channel audio set to 4 and
a rear high or low pass filter set to high.
and as I've said the sound quality is so much better than what it ever has been a
lot of this comes from the rear speakers as I have a high-pass filter set on the
amplifier so I'm sending those high and mid frequencies through at ear level to
my ears which really helps beat that drone of the engine so I'm getting most
of that clarity from the vocals coming through and I don't have to crank the
stereo all the way up now to hear the words I can have it comfortably set at
18 instead of 30 like I used to don't expect major differences but at the end
of day this is a Defender it is still a loud vehicle despite all my
soundproofing but I can really enjoy listening to music now while I'm touring
and even at highway cruising speeds a hundred km and hour I'm still
listening to beautiful audio compared to the old days just cranking loud and
hoping for the best so it's not a very expensive system I sort of bought
everything as cheaply as I could because I don't want something really expensive
in a Defender which can easily be broken into and have my head unit stolen but also
didn't want any water ingress getting in during deep water crossings as I have
had the car you know through water level going over the bonnet so if I do get
stuck someday I don't want to lose lots of expensive gear but overall very happy
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