Crom Cruach Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Is there a way to test if a cone replacement would sort this rear speaker? There is a tiny amount of sound coming out. also is is likely these ebay cones would fit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotinrob Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Are these for the front on a stereo dash? Hard to fit a modern speaker into that spot. Did you consider using Turnswitch.com replacement speakers? $90 a pair and they fit in the dash using the original brackets. If you are using an original radio they come in 10 ohms so you won't fry the transistor in the amplifier. They will also work for aftermarket radios with slightly reduced volume. They will sound better than re-coned speakers any day. rotin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom Cruach Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 Thanks Rotin. It is a single trunk speaker, I haven’t looked at the dash speakers yet because I don’t want to remove the dash pad just yet. I’ll check out turn switch anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny first gen 71 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 I think I just used new 6x9 speakers in mine. Thinking they are JBL but I don't really remember. They definitely sound better than what was in there. I haven't messed with the front ones yet that's a project for another time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregs70 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Yeah just buy aftermarket speakers, factory ones are junk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom Cruach Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 Haha understood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott S. Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 It's hard to get that "full surround sound" experience with any number of speakers when the windows are open and the engine running. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bell Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 I can recommend what to look for and what to avoid in speakers: Avoid oval speakers, they have a lot of distortion from the cone being twice the mass on the long sides. These cone auto speakers are small and they have no problem reaching up into the midrange frequencies. There's no need for anything more than a two way design, a nice woofer and a single tweeter. IOW, a two way design. I love these "four way" speakers that have just a tiny silver dome as a tweeter next to a bigger tweeter but it's just for show. Find a speaker set with an external crossover in a small box. It'll have the needed chokes, caps and resisters that tune and match the woofer and tweeter. The cheap stuff just has a cap for the tweeter. Unfortunately, this is only found with component speakers where the tweeter is separately mounted. To get around this, you can get a 6 x 9 adapter plate that takes a 6-1/2" round woofer and a tweeter mounted side by side. There's a handful of decent 4 x 6 plate speakers. Find a speaker with a substantial tweeter in it. A one inch titanium, aluminum or soft dome. It should have a phase disc blocking the center of the dome. Avoid a Mylar dome. A recent trend is to put two identical speakers side by side on a single plate. This causes all kinds of lobing at certain frequencies. Magnets and voice coils. Like some things in life, bigger is better. None of these speakers-even the big 6 x 9's, have any real bass. If you try to turn up the bass, you'll overload them and maybe blow them up. Get one of those compact powered sub cabinets you can hide away in the trunk. Then turn down the bass to the smaller speakers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bell Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 https://www.crutchfield.com/p_113XR1701/Kenwood-Excelon-XR-1701.html?tp=105 https://www.crutchfield.com/p_13699042/JL-Audio-C1-650x.html?tp=105 https://www.infinityspeakers.com/speakers/KAPPA463XF-.html?dwvar_KAPPA463XF-_color=Black-AM-Current&cgid=speakers#start=1 https://www.crutchfield.com/p_142SA69/Scosche-SA-69-Speaker-Mounting-Brackets.html?tp=2824 https://rockfordfosgate.com/products/details/t1s-1x10p/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom Cruach Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 That’s great Paul, are any of these plug and play with my am/fm radio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bell Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Any decent speaker is gonna want 100 watts. I don't know of any in dash radio that produces more than 15 watts or so, even if they claim 50. There's some good compact amplifiers on the market, Alpine has a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott S. Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 4 hours ago, Paul Bell said: Any decent speaker is gonna want 100 watts. I don't know of any in dash radio that produces more than 15 watts or so, even if they claim 50. There's some good compact amplifiers on the market, Alpine has a few. I went with the Alpine compact amp...... LOVE IT !!! Easy to follow diagrams and hides away nicely on the inside of the firewall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom Cruach Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 So you treat the stock radio as a source, add another source if you want (cassette / iPod or whatever), and the amp bypasses the need for 10 ohm speakers, is that right? Would be nice to have quality sounds allright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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