I purchased my FD without a CD player, so I have been driving around the last 2 weeks with just the noise of the car (not bad). I'm planning on adding the new Alpine CDA-9815 to my FD this week and was wondering how it will sound. I'm not expecting it to "bump." I assume that the front speakers will run of the HU's front power. The rear wave/sub thing will run off the rear channel? What about the center channel? This Alpine is pretty much the best one without buying a DVD player. Any input on how this might work or sound? I'm not installing it myself. I'll probably end up going to Sound Advice to have them do it. I just don't want to get screwed over. If there is something in particular I should know about this...please let me know.

 

No opinions huh? Come on! I know someone has to be running stock Bose speakers with an aftermarket CD player.

 

It's not easy to do, as far as I know. Bose amplifies each of the speakers individually, meaning they have wires that other HU's don't have a place for, and don't have wires that other HU's have places for. Check out the Bose wiring diagram thing at the top of this section.