What are people using when they replace their front speakers? 6 1/2? My stock speakers took a dump today and I need to replace them. I'm running an mtx 50x2 rms amp on the fronts. So what fits in there for aftermarket stuff? Do I have to make any brackets or anything?
what year is your car? they do sell different spacers, or there's patterns available if you want to make your own. search on nasioc, there's lots of info. On my car (2000 impreza), I was able to fit 6 1/2 polks in the front with the stock spacers.
i bought infinity references from ultimate electronics. they had the best prices i could find locally on both the speakers and installation
iap has them. http://www.iaperformance.com/index.php?cPath=44_45_54_56 i went with mb quart 6.5components.
www.iaperformance.com Buy their spacers. You will use 6.5" speakers. It's up to you to run coaxials or components. It depends if you want to play with a seperate tweeter or not. Do NOT put the component tweeter in the stock tweeter location by the door handle. This is a horrible location. The relative distance between the woofer and tweeter to your ears is very different and the much closer proximity of the tweeter just makes they dominant and overpowering. You would NEED a HU with time alignment to fix it to an acceptable extent. The tweeter should be down by the woofer or up in the a-pillar/sail-pane area. I know some models have the tweeters in the sail pane now. Use that area. The key is equal distance to your ears from both the woofer and tweeter, at least as close as possible. I have a general liking towards Alpine's Type-R set or Type-X if you don't mind spending a little bit more. Type-R stuff can be had for around $100 on Ebay and Type-X for around $200, give or take $20 or so. Throw in a 100w x 2 amp and you're golden. Everyone has their preferences. I just have a liking towards a warmer, smoother tone. If you have $200 to spend, I'd HIGHLY suggest going to the Type-X set. It's just an awesome package for the price. It only has one downside really and that is the woofer doesn't have a ton of excursion. It can be slightly weak on midbass and forcing it out doesn't help. The Type-X set uses Vifa's XT series XT19 tweeter(very well liked) and XT18 woofer, or at least a slightly shrunk version of it, a very good midrange woofer. Add basically the most comprehensive and versatile passive crossover on the market today, it's just a great package. You'll probably want to high pass the woofer slightly high to keep it clean at louder volumes, say 100Hz. I would assume 80Hz would be pushing it but probably doable if you're not listening really loud. You'll have to play with the high pass/low pass filters to see where you like it and where you're not overworking the woofer. This sort of leads to subs. Higher crossover point, more musical subwoofer, something that loves to play at 100Hz, cleanly. I ran my bro's Dayton Reference series High Fidelity 12" sub in my car for a while. It's a brilliantly musical sub, crisp, airly, lots of detail, musically capable well above 500Hz. It can play deep(F3 of 38Hz) and work in a small box(1.4 cu.ft.) off little power(400w rms). Price is great too at only about $120 from www.partsexpress.com It's just one suggestion, but it's one that I've liked a lot. Amps are cheap. Hit up Ebay. Kicker, Hifonics, Cadence, Phoenix Gold are all quite affordable power. Any name brand will work. Just grab something with adequate power, a little extra never hurts either. It's nice to shoot for around 4w per dollar.
Boston does pretty well, no real complaints from what I've demoed. Also all their woofers are within 2.5", so fitment is a little easier. My only gripe, cost I guess. The Pros get a little spendy. The Z6 is suppost to be pretty awesome...if you want to spend that much.
