Ok, to kick this board off, here's the description of the empeg install in our demo car, a blue metallic Mercedes A-Class (A140 Avantgarde). I don't know if this model is sold in the US, but it's a futuristic looking small car with a completely flat floor - you sit quite high up and in the event of an accident the engine goes *under* the passenger compartment instead of into it.

Anyway: the A-Class has a standard DIN slot, so the empeg just fits into the dash easily. The battery is under the drivers seat, so the amp feeds are taken from here to a custom box in the trunk, which raises the floor by about 3" and holds two amps (Kicker ix404 and ix1302), fuses and a cooling fan.

The speakers in this install all fit in the OEM mounting holes - the fronts are Infinity Kappa 652 components (an off-the-shelf spacer was needed to get the main drivers to fit), the rears are Infinity references. A custom (removable) sub box with an Infinity Kappa 10" sub sits in the trunk.

The ix404 drives all 4 speakers, with the line-out of this amp driving the ix1302 in bridged mode for the subwoofer.

Problems with the install included some noise supression (the cooling fan was inducing noise back into the empeg as it was powered from the amp remote signal - adding a choke and a cap solved this one, but a relay would have done the job too) and the fact that the flat floor of the car meant that cable routing was a bit of a pain.

It sounds very nice, and very loud :)

Hugo