1st let me say...I hate most car audio stuff! flashy lights and buttons, swimming dolphin displays, pop out screens...blech...I want simple, clean, AUDIO based gear and no one seems to make that anymore.... AND...car speakers are an even worse subject for me. I will absolutely avoid the entire store corner where the car audio dept is just because I know it will be a bunch of pimply faced kids with some rapcrap cranked up way too high through a boomy flappy subwoofer and some bacon frying sizzling tweeters that will make my ears bleed!
The factory system in my Mazda3 was tolerable for the most part after a speaker upgrade at least in the front. now that car is gone and I have an 06 Nissan Murano with an absolutely intolerable sounding car stereo system. I am once again faced with the dilemma of having to venture into the land of boom and sizzle....
I cannot replace the factory radio as it is integrated into...well everything it seems. But what I can do is upgrade the speakers and work backwards with the possibility of adding a small 4/6 channel amp. some sort of DSP for eq, time delay etc. and possibly some POOGING of the factory radio to whatever degree is possible. but all that is much farther down the road. If i can at least get it to a point where i can listen at a low volume without wanting to jamb an ice pick in my ears would be good.
SO...starting with speakers as this is the easiest part and the part most likely to show improvement right away. the front has 6x9" and the back 6.5" speakers so we are off to a good start already. thank god its not some lil 4" jobbers.
Now the other factor is that I am not Donald Trump! looking online some of this car stereo crap gets real real REAL expensive quick and for zero reason as far as i can tell comparing them to what is available for high quality raw drivers.
So lets set the budget around $100 for a front set of speakers. what I am looking for is EVENNESS from top to bottom. they do not have to handle goobs of power or have separate components. but something that is smooth with no noticeable holes in the response and NO SIZZLE! smooth, clean, even.
The last speakers I bought were the Infinity 682ci reference (I think) for the mazda. out of every speaker in the store, they were the ones that made me want to shoot myself the least. However for whatever reason the 6.5" version did not sound even close to the same. so I am hesitant to just pick the 6x9 version.
I would prefer a clean 2 way vs the 3-4-5-15 way junk. it seems that most of the 3+ way speakers are nothing more than a 2 way with an added piezo or fake super tweeter type driver and lets face it, these are going in the doors so there really isnt much need for a super tweeter anyway. so lets keep it to a 2 way.
MB Quart comes to mind. however i have heard good and bad from them as well. what else is out there today that I am unware of?
Sorry for my ranting.
Zc
The factory system in my Mazda3 was tolerable for the most part after a speaker upgrade at least in the front. now that car is gone and I have an 06 Nissan Murano with an absolutely intolerable sounding car stereo system. I am once again faced with the dilemma of having to venture into the land of boom and sizzle....
I cannot replace the factory radio as it is integrated into...well everything it seems. But what I can do is upgrade the speakers and work backwards with the possibility of adding a small 4/6 channel amp. some sort of DSP for eq, time delay etc. and possibly some POOGING of the factory radio to whatever degree is possible. but all that is much farther down the road. If i can at least get it to a point where i can listen at a low volume without wanting to jamb an ice pick in my ears would be good.
SO...starting with speakers as this is the easiest part and the part most likely to show improvement right away. the front has 6x9" and the back 6.5" speakers so we are off to a good start already. thank god its not some lil 4" jobbers.
Now the other factor is that I am not Donald Trump! looking online some of this car stereo crap gets real real REAL expensive quick and for zero reason as far as i can tell comparing them to what is available for high quality raw drivers.
So lets set the budget around $100 for a front set of speakers. what I am looking for is EVENNESS from top to bottom. they do not have to handle goobs of power or have separate components. but something that is smooth with no noticeable holes in the response and NO SIZZLE! smooth, clean, even.
The last speakers I bought were the Infinity 682ci reference (I think) for the mazda. out of every speaker in the store, they were the ones that made me want to shoot myself the least. However for whatever reason the 6.5" version did not sound even close to the same. so I am hesitant to just pick the 6x9 version.
I would prefer a clean 2 way vs the 3-4-5-15 way junk. it seems that most of the 3+ way speakers are nothing more than a 2 way with an added piezo or fake super tweeter type driver and lets face it, these are going in the doors so there really isnt much need for a super tweeter anyway. so lets keep it to a 2 way.
MB Quart comes to mind. however i have heard good and bad from them as well. what else is out there today that I am unware of?
Sorry for my ranting.
Zc
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