Need new speakers - looking for suggestions

[Milenko]

I bought my car used, and it has aftermarket infinitys in the front, and I haven't looked in the back...No tweeters (like the M460 has)

I want to replace the fronts and rears, and possibly put two tweeters where the M460 tweeters sit.

Any suggestions on speakers for the front/back/tweeters?

I'm looking for decent quality, but not top of the line...

I'd like some bass in the rear, so it would be cool if the rears had some kick.

I don't want subs, I had them, and I took them out.

 

[MyEarsHurt]

I have been through several brands, and for the last 2 cars, I have stuck with Infinity Kappas. I would not recommend anything else, you can buy a set of infinity kappa component speakers, or just the tweeters from www.sounddomain.com or www.crutchfield.com. Do you have Infinity reference series speakers in the car right now? If so, that may be why you dont like them. Kappa series speakers are awesome, and if you hook them up to a decent amp, then you can get some major midbass, and you wont need the subs at all.

 

[65StangBoy]

I just put a two sets of Infinity Kappa 5x7's in my car this week. I haven't been able to listen to a lot of other speakers, but these things sound awesome. World's better than the Mach460 is my girlfriends car. The amount of bass that these things put out is amazing for such a relatively small speaker. I'm running them through a 4-Channel amp that puts out 100 watts RMS to each speaker which is the max for those speakers. They retail for about $150 per pair but I got them off of eBay for about $60 per set. Awesome bang for the buck in my opinion.

http://www.infinitysystems.com/caraudio/product.aspx?ProdId='KAPPA572.5CF'&Ser=KAP&Cat=MEL

 

[Milenko]

Thanks guys - looks like I'll be grabbing them.

Anyone know the speaker sizes for a 96gt?

edit - NM...in the FAQ

 

[Milenko]

Just ordered two pair off e-bay.

Came to $187.80 for all 4 speakers new, including shipping.

Let's hope they sound good

 

[Milenko]

Okay guys, got the speakers.

They came with crossovers, do I need to use them?

I'm just going to be running them off of my pioneer deck.

 

[grodgers]

Okay guys, got the speakers.

They came with crossovers, do I need to use them?

I'm just going to be running them off of my pioneer deck.

yes you need to use them.

 

[MyEarsHurt]

Dont skip the crossover, thats part of what makes the speakers as good as they are!

 

[Milenko]

I just finished installing all 4. I had the stocks in the rear (never knew that, got the car used)

I cannot believe how great these speakers sound. Even on a staticy radio station they were sounding pretty damn good, and my deck is only pushing 45 watts I believe..

I have a rockford fosgate amp in my garage that does 360 watts RMS bridged. Is there any way I can use this with the speakers without blowing them?

edit...intelligence

 

[Nottoofast50]

Do you mean a rockford amp ? You put sub. How much does it do per channel rms?(not bridged)

 

[Milenko]

woops, yes I meant amp.

90x2 RMS continous power into 4 ohms with less than 0.05% THD from 20-20khz---180x2 watts RMS continous power into 2 Ohms with less thatn 0.10% THD from 20-20khz

Whatever that means..

 

[cjman15]

you can use them on tha speakers... amping tha power to each speaker will make it play cleaner and crisper, louder... just don't run over tha RMS ratings for each speaker... then you might blow it

 

[Milenko]

I believe that this would go over the RMS for each speaker...I think..