speakers

[accuab]

could someone recommend a mid price speaker to put in a GT. I have put 4 way xplod 6X9 in the rear deck. now i want to swap the front tweeters and the 5.25 in the front door. i have an aftermarket pioneer head unit in the car pushing 200W max but I'm not sure of the rms. I'm assuming about 20 W per channel cause that's what they normally are. I have been impressed with xplod for the price but wondered if other people have had good luck with a particular speaker. I will probably be putting high pass crossover on the front speaker depending on how much bass somes through them. I will be putting two 12's back in the trunk so i will have plenty of bass from them. any ideas is helpful.

[FullyAvenged]

My buddy has MA Audio's in his car and they sound awesome!

I found some of these for you.

http://www.ikesound.com/product-product_id/6128

[tblake]

Yeah, I have tried numerous aftermarket speakers, and for some reason always end up switching back to the delcos. I think they have a pretty good sound. I think if I just found out the frequency response and wired in the appropriate crossovers, They would sound a lot better!

Long story short, if it were me, I'd stick with stock!

[TDWPgtp]

if your going to get something with an external crossover ur going to need an amp for best sound quality. external crossovers suck a lot more power. as far as speaker brand, alpines always a good way to go for any car electronic, and infinity mids and highs are pretty good for the money. also if you have tweeters up on the doors, and you are getting 5.25 coaxials (tweeter attached to the speaker) then u can wire the stock tweeter to the aftermarket one, although u will be running your head unit at 2 ohms then, which depending on your individual head unit may be unstable. my friends been doin it on his for quite some time with no problems tho. good luck. ps. what kind of subs are u gettin =)

[accuab]

Leave the delco? no way. if you have the original head unit i could see it. i got rid of the OE unit cause it doesn't produce enough wattage and the sound quality i wanted just wasn't there. for some people original speakers are okay. however i like to have the music loud. with subs in a car, factory speakers do not produce enough of the high range of the spectrum due to the fact that they are full range speakers with only one cone. i have 4 way 6X9s. they have the 6X9 cone for the lower range, like a 2 inch round for mid, and two super tweeters for the highs. They made a world of difference being that I had two 1200 watt 12's right behing them. The factory ones barely put any sound to the front seats. That's why I want to swap the front door for some two or three way speakers and change the factory tweets.

[doctorhrdware]

tblake,

Look at the capacitors that are on the gm/delco speakers, that is what determines the crossover frequency.

[berryjo5]

hey guys. i have done alot of work with audio in my grand prix. i currently do competetions right now for spl and sq. i have a nesa dvd player in my dash and i can honestly say it could be better but for what i paid for it, i cant complain. the best interior speakers i can find for the particular soundstage of our prixs, i think the polk momo series is the best speaker for the buck. they have a nice crisp clean bright sound but not to the point to sounding tinny. so with those speakers and the headunit and also an eclispe 4 channel amp running them for a little more power.... very nice sound and have scored highly with them.... if you are looking for some bumps in the trunk i would recommend MTX. right now with the clarity of the polk momo speakers you can afford to run some power to subs.... which is what i did. haha. i have 2 12" mtx9500 series subs in a custom box with an mtx7801 superamp. the subs are rated at 1000 watts rms, 2000 peak a piece but can easily take more. the amp is prolly alittle smaller than i should have boughten but still drives these subs hard. the amp is commercially rated at 1500 watts rms at 1 ohm with 14 volts but the certificate that somes with it said it was putting out just over 1800. but im running very close to 15 volts so im pretty sure im getting pretty close to 1800 watts rms. let me tell you.... you will never want to buy another brand of audio when it comes to bass. i have had jl, polk,hifonics, you name it, haha but these mtxs are by far my favorite.

let me know if anyone has questions, i do custom install (head units, amps, subs, custom boxs, etc.)

[berryjo5]

also i would not recommend installing regular coaxial speakers and connecting the stock tweeters to them... just get a nice set of components. it makes a world of difference.

[tblake]

Originally Posted by doctorhrdware

tblake,

Look at the capacitors that are on the gm/delco speakers, that is what determines the crossover frequency.

Guess I've never noticed! Do just the bose speakers have the capacitors, or all GM Delco speakers?

Is that why I havnt blown my door tweeters yet?

[berryjo5]

depending on what speaker set up you have in yur car.... some have those resistors and some dont. and depending on the resistor, that is what allows a certain frequency through... like on the stock tweeters, only high frequency is allowed to pass to the actual speaker which dramatically decreses the amount of distortion. distortion is what blows speakers, not just overpowering. overpowering does cause distortion though. but you can easily blow speakers even when yur not even close to the maximum rated power... distortion causes the voice coil to vibrate inside the magnet which wears the coils and eventually causes a blown speaker.

[berryjo5]

not trying to advertise when i say this but i cant find better deals than this site.

www.sonicelectronix.com

take a look. lots of good stuff.... its where i got most of my stuff...

[Burtnette]

Memphis or JBL cabin speakers FTW. Wouldn't choose any other brands.

[doctorhrdware]

I agree with JBL's, they are definitely a very good choice for speakers. As far as the Memphis speakers, that is a brand of speakers that I am not familiar with, but that does not mean that they are not good. Also polkaudio speaker are also a favorite of mine. The capacitor is what is used to block the low end of the audio spectrum(bass) so that the tweeter only has the high frequency of the audio spectrum. If bass was allowed to pass through to the tweeter, the tweeter would fry. Crossovers do not use resistors, capacitors and inductors are used for the crossover and not resistors.

[berryjo5]

sorry for the mistake i meant inductors... not resistors. good catch. because some speakers use inductors some use capacitors and some use both.
An inductor, also known as a "coil" or "choke", is a coil of wire which may or may not have an iron or ferrite core. Inductors with an iron core are called "iron core inductors" while those without are called "air core inductors". The basic characteristics of both types is the same. As the frequency passing through an inductor increases, so does the inductive reactance of the coil. This rise in impedance at higher frequencies allows us to use the inductor as a filter that passes low frequencies but chokes off high ones.
Capacitors do just the opposite. As frequency decreases, the capacitor's reactance increases. That is, capacitors pass high frequencies and filter out low ones. These capacitors are generally non-polarized electrolytics, polypropylene, or Mylar and consist of interleaved layers of foil and insulating material.

lol just thought i would explain myself there.