Need some updated speakers and amps what do you guys reccomend? I know nothing about this stuff. Thanks Mark

Mark: I have had great luck with Kenwood Marine products. 5.25" coax speakers, 10" sub-woofers. I plan on re-working my 419 with the 5.25" in place of the 6x9 and then placing 2-10" subs under the rear seat. I use a 1000 watt amp for just the subs and a 600 watt amp for the 5.25's. I also use a Kenwood automotive head unit with the usb port and auxillary port. Has un-wired remote and a wired remote lead for the boat. I have these speakers in my Fountain 38EC and it is the best stereo I have ever owned. Use a boomer capacitor for the sub-woofer amp to give you a tighter base. The speakers and amps are cheap on e-bay. I bought the head unit from Best Buy. My 2 cents, good luck.

why not just stay with the 6x9's?? I was thinking of using memphis speakers and new subs which currently are in the front of the lounge area. Some of my current kenwood stuff is blown. mark

My Memphis amp has been great for years now, If your looking for the higher end amps.

get a good installer it will make the difference the kenwood gets tossed right away cant go wrong with jl audio speakers

I use only Memphis Marine. Never any problems and great sound!

I just upgraded my stereo after doing many days of research. This is what I have done so far.

Speakers:
8 JL Audio 7.7 Components (New) Paid $269/pr Millionbuy.com
http://marine.jlaudio.com/products_c...hp?prod_id=421

4 MB Quartz Components (couple yrs old)
2 MA audio subs (Junk) Will be replacing with JL W7 12s soon.

Amps:
2 Alpine PDX 4.150 (New) Paid $379ea on Ebay
http://www.alpine-usa.com/US-en/prod...odel=PDX-4.150
1 TMA mono (Junk)

This system totally rocks and is so crisp. Very loud and Zero distortion. I mounted the PDX amps under the glove box where they get free air cooling. I ran this system for 5hrs straight at full volume much of the time and it didn't get to hot and never shut down. Running 2 blue tops and she started right up. I, and many others on the beach say they were very impressed with this set up, other than the subs.
I recommend these PDX amps. very much. You won't be disappointed.

I will post some pics of my set up.