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    Sound System Upgrade

    Hey everyone, I'm looking to upgrade the entire sound system in my 2006 530i.
    It's got the USA standard system with the center dash speaker, front door speakers + tweeters, underseat subs, and rear deck speakers and tweeters.
    So, a total of 11 speakers throughout, as well as a dedicated 12" sub in the trunk that I plan to add when I get this figured out.

    My plan is to:
    Upgrade all 4 of the midrange speakers to 2-way coaxials.
    Replace the tweeters and add passive crossovers to keep those and the coaxials on their own separate channels.
    Use the under-seat subs as mid bass speakers on their own channels.
    Add in a trunk sub on it's own dedicated sub channel.

    I will be using 2 amplifiers.
    Amplifier one will have 5 channels, channels 1-4 being full range channels used for each of the coaxial/tweeter pairs in the doors and rear deck, and one being the dedicated sub channel.
    Amplifier two will have 4 full range channels, channels 1 & 2 being used for the mid bass, and channels 3 & 4 being bridged for the center channel.
    Both amps have crossover networks so I can tune each channel to it's respective freq. range.

    I am looking to completely remove the stock audio system harness and run my own custom harness.

    My question is where do I splice my connections in? I have seen the harness behind the stock CD player module, and it seem to be a mess.
    If anybody has traced a schematic or knows the color code used by BMW I would be very grateful

    Thanks in advance

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    Thank you! This is exactly what I needed

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