Question about car audio?

Well it all depends clarity vs. decibels! Kenwood makes good head units and power for the price. With the head unit you'll also need a wiring harness to connect to your factory wiring and a fit kit to make the radio fit your existing dash. Speakers if you just want to make a swap with your factory speakers and not get into tweeters and all that jazz, you'll want to go with an all in one speaker, which covers all the highs, mids, and lows. For this I would recommend JL Audio or Rockford Fosgate. JL will be the more expensive one but Rockford gives you the depth all in all they are very comparible. All you need for this probably just a drill to retro fit new holes for the speakers and some wire connectors for the wiring. If you don't go to crazy with the speakers you can still use all of the factory wiring and not have to use an amp, the radio should have enough of juice to power them. All of this should fit into your price range. Also make sure when you buy the speakers to get the ones that will fit your door, depth wise and heighth wise. If you get speakers that are to deep it could interfere with the window going up and down. If you get speakers that stick out to far you won't be able to put your door panels back and could lead to some cutting. In the past I went to stereo specific stores and they seemed to be more knowledgable than your big box stores (circuit city, best buy, etc.) Also another place thats been real helpful to me in the past is crutchfield.com they also will give you good directions on install and everything else....check the link! All in all it's not to hard to do the install and hey if nothing else you learned something and you can take pride in saying, " Yeah I installed"!