Front Door Speakers

[fire24resque]

I noticed today that one of the speakers in my drivers door took a crap, all I'm getting out of it is a vibration/muffled noise. It looks like there are two speakers in the door, a small tweeter and a 6 1/2" 2-Way? Is this what's in there? I'm looking through the grill and can't see much.

I want to replace them but I want good speakers that doesn't crackle and puts out good sound. For anyone that has replaced these, can you recommend a good brand/speaker to put in there. I'm good with hooking up systems and all of that, I'm just not good with what all the watts and all that stuff mean. I saw before someone put the instructions on removing the door panel, but I can't find it. Can someone re-explain or does anyone know where that old post is?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[1BadBowTie]

Howdy, I did the same thing to my truck, and right now I have Infinity 6 1/2's in the door, and I highy recommend them. They are very crisp and they hit highs really well. I think I paid just under $100, like $95 for them. They sound really nice!

[sportin83]

i would get components if you want to spend the extra money, but if not you can do coaxial and they will still sound good. i recommend infinity, polk audio, eclipse, or alpine.

[kenwood guy]

Originally Posted by sportin83

i would get components if you want to spend the extra money, but if not you can do coaxial and they will still sound good. i recommend infinity, polk audio, eclipse, or alpine.

Question

How do components work vs regular speakers???? and how would you wire them ???from your reciever to them then your amp????

[onehate02]

a component set consists of: 2 midbass speakers (which would be the 6.5''s), 2 tweeters, and 2 crossovers. you run one speaker wire from the midbass to the crossover input terminals (positive and negative), you run another speaker wire from the tweeter to the second pair of input terminals on the crossover, and then you run one more speaker wire from the crossover's output terminals to the amp's input terminals. there are 7 terminals on a crossover and since you use up 6 of them, theres usually one empty (i have no clue why). if you weren't running the components to the amp, you wire it the same but run it to the headunit instead. i didn't think it would take that much typing to explain lol

[kenwood guy]

do they sound better if so how????

[01silverado03z400]

I'm not exacltly sure but i think that it makes it so that ur really high frequencies come out of the tweeter and the lower ones come out of ur mids. Sometimes if you dont hav crossovers some of your really high frequencies come out of the mids and it sounds bad. Crossovers should give you a crisper sound. I guess it keeps ur speakers from wrecking too. Like I said im not exactly sure so i could be totally wrong.

Now for my question. I bought a new alpine 9855 headunit a week ago and it has a built in crossover. Is this the same as having components pretty much? I was thinking about adding some components but i dont know if it is worth it since i already have a crossover in my headunit.