Speakers

paulb2004uk · Post by **paulb2004uk** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:23 pm

Can anyone recommend and decent speakers, I'm going to install my JVC Mp3 player in the week when the wiring kits arrive. I think i'll need better speakers than the standard ones.

I have a late 2001 hdi rapier estate.

Davva2004 · Post by **Davva2004** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:06 am

What's your budget and I'll have a look, you'll need 6.5" components for the front doors and dash, and (I think) 4" coaxials for the rear.

Edited cos I just read the word "estate"

paulb2004uk · Post by **paulb2004uk** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:14 am

Sorry for late reply, at the moment i'm on a limited budget so about ?60 to ?80 for the fronts, will do the backs later.

Davva2004 · Post by **Davva2004** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:10 pm

If you can stretch to another fiver you can have these Alpine SPS171A's...

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/product ... ts_id=3337

Highly recommended.

Another tenner on top of that and you can have these DLS B6A's...

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/product ... ts_id=5115

Wideley renouned as one of the sweetest sounding sets of components made.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:57 pm

Or Focals

but these go to over ?100

Post by **niz406** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:16 pm

I'd go for the alpines to be honest out of those... they are USA designs and the build quality will be great... if you want a decent set to run of a head unit, then infinity reference seires components...

They have a high efficiency rating of 92db, which means that you need less power to make them sound good, as aposed to any components that are below 90db and thus require a small amp to be more efficient ! !

Get them cheap here

See what they have replaced here:
http://www.infinitysystems.com/caraudio ... EF&Cat=COS

Damn ASPX links dont work... on the URL tag.. FFS ! !

matmiller · Post by **matmiller** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:39 am

i'd go for the infinity if your not running them off a amp
they was the first set of comps i got and off a head unit they sound awsome

but if you like your sounds then its better to amp them
if you went for the alpines i'd say go for the type r's there a bit more than the type s but they do give out a sweet sound, but there better if you run them off a amp.

mbell666 · Post by **mbell666** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:06 pm

quick (probably silly) question, are the 6.5" components a "drop in" replacement for the standard speakers? i.e unscrew original speaker, screw in new one?

Also is it worth changing the cross over? I expect its not the easiest job.

matmiller · Post by **matmiller** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:24 pm

well mine were and mines a 97'

Davva2004 · Post by **Davva2004** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:34 pm

mbell666 wrote:Also is it worth changing the cross over? I expect its not the easiest job.

Definitely change the crossovers, always use the crossovers in the set of new speakers. Easiest way to get at the wiring is through the end caps on the dash, trace the wiring from the tweeters back to the stereo loom where it splits between tweeters and woofers, that's where to install the new crossovers. Then use the existing wiring from the crossovers to the speakers and job's a good un. This way you don't have to faff around running new wiring into the doors.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:48 am

I looked long and hard for the cross overs when I was installing new speakers and never found them... where ARE they?

Davva2004 · Post by **Davva2004** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:19 pm

There may not be any... there could just be a capacitor on the back of the tweeter to cut off the bass frequencies as that's the cheapest way to do it. Fit the new crossovers at the point where the OE loom splits to tweeter and woofer. What I would do is cut the wires, extend the one from the stereo by about a foot, mount the crossovers on the insides of the end caps so they are secure and then wire the crossovers to the existing speaker wires.

nipper76 · Post by **nipper76** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:04 pm

ok.. what dose it matter if you use crossovers or not?? again if you aint seen me on ere then just to let you know... im learning

i never bother with using crossovers... and its never really made much difference.... what are the benifits form going to all the hassel of fitting them?

Davva2004 · Post by **Davva2004** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:41 pm

All component speakers need crossovers, component speakers being a set of speakers that have a seperate tweeter and woofer. The crossover directs bass frequencies to the woofer and treble frequencies to the tweeter, so each speaker is playing the frequencies it was designed to play. The 406 has a component system in the front as standard with 6.5" woofers in the doors and 2" tweeters near the windscreen in the dash, which is why the sound appears to be coming from ahead of you not down by your ankles.

Coaxial speakers, where the tweeter is built in to the main speaker itself and not seperate, don't need seperate crossovers as there's electronic components on the tweeter itself to cut off the bass frequencies. The rear speakers in a 406 are coaxials, either 4" in the C pillar trim on the estate models or 6"x9" in the parcel shelf on the saloon models.