A friend of mine has a Audi A4 with the Bose stereo in it. He recently blew one of the door speakers and the subwoofer. He went to a few places like Best Buy and they said he had to replace everything from the speakers to the amps. They said that the Bose systems are really hard to work on.

Could i just get some nice component speakers for him or would they not work?
I dont see why they would not work.

Any advice?

 

I am not sure, but it's possible that those systems had an amplifier for every speakers. I had a Maxima with Bose and that was the layout. If your friends get speakers, amp, and line out converters that should cover all the scenarios.

 

the bose systems are integrated with the headunit.

they do a lot of work equalizing each car and then custom making them into each system.

so if you take one bose system and stick it into diff car, the acoustics are totally thrown off.

with that... just get rid of the bose and start from scratch.

 

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The problem in your Audi is that the headunit doesn't un to the speakers. The signal goes to individual amps for each channel and then goes to the speaker. You'll have to run all new wires thru the whole car, unless you retain the factory amps, but the amps run at something stupid like 2ohms. If you replace one component, you will have to replace the whole system. As far as being hard to work on... I wouldn't say that. I would recommend running one 4 channel amp for your speakers. Then you just have to have speaker wires run like a normal amp install. You'll have to replace the speakers since tey won't like the new amp, and thats really about it. A good shop should be able to handle this pretty easily.