Advice needed for rear speakers

[albaru]

I have a very standard sound system with a 50Wx4 rms headunit, 6½" splits at the front, and 6½" rear speakers. After many many (8 actually) years the rear speakers have finally blown their cones apart.

Can someone suggest a quality speaker that will do a fine job?

Either a plug-in 6½" replacement, or a larger speaker with faithful base (doesn't need to be low cut-off - just good quality sound) that will fit the cutout. Cutout is quite a big oval shape. Car is GC8 coupe.

[Scoobydoo]

Do you have your heart set on having rear speakers. In my opinion rear speakers are good in theory, but really, you want the best music to come from where you sit, in the front. Are you happy with your fronts? Should you upgrade those first maybe?

If you do want rears, basically any 6 / 6.5" speakers should slot in fine with any mods. The likes of Pioneer, Alpine, Soundstream are good brands to start with, then Fusion, Sony, JVC are a bit of a step down, but fine for rears if you only want it for rear fill, not if you actually want to listen to the music coming out of them.

You don't run a sub do you? If you want a bit more bass, then 6x9's are a good option.

If you want to purchase from a shop, then go see Streetsounds, I get pretty much everything from there these days, and will probably offer a better deal than the Repco/Supercheap type of places.

[ODB]

Quality 6.5" front speakers, 5" or 4" ones for rear fill.

Small amp to run the front speakers and power the backs from the head unit.

Lightweight, SQ is where its at imo.

I use pioneer for all my audio in car.

[Scoobydoo]

spark_38 had some alpine type r's for sale, they are very good, depending on what you already have for fronts atm of course

[spark_38]

for rear fill the Response 6" components without the tweeters would be ideal, or if you wanted to use them in the front as components, amped at 75W RMS they actually sounded ok (for cheapies anyway).

what speakers are you running in the front?

the alpine type-r are very nice speakers, rated at 110W rms - they will need a fair amount of power to maximise their full potential, i ran them from a 4-channel amp: bridged front channels for left, bridged rear channels for right.

what headunit you running? 50Wx4 won't be RMS output? it will be more like 16-18W. is it still the factory Alpine 3CD in-dash unit? or did you swap that out?

[albaru]

Thanks guys.

After your comments I listened to the fronts only and found that, by crikey, there was just as much distortion there so I'll replace them 1st.

And yes, I have the factory Alpine 3CD in-dash unit. It's not 50W rms like I thought, hadn't swapped it out. Must of been dreaming.

Will upgrade the fronts first, then rears. Found some 6" speakers in the workshop, which will be 2nd hand so will put them in the rear, and get some new ones for the fronts.

[Scoobydoo]

Are the fronts the factory speakers? If they are the factory ones, then they will most certainly be stuffed. The foam surrounds will be falling apart and will crumble in your fingers. Anything will be an upgrade for those haha! But be prepared for a bit of a loss in midbass. The factory speakers (no idea why), are surprisingly good for lower frequency response, but suck for mid and high-end response.

[ADIKT]

Stick some alpine type-r's in the type r ;D ;D

[spark_38]

 ADIKT']

Stick some alpine type-r's in the type r ;D ;D

Yes!!!

[quote name='Scoobydoo said:

Are the fronts the factory speakers? If they are the factory ones, then they will most certainly be stuffed. The foam surrounds will be falling apart and will crumble in your fingers. Anything will be an upgrade for those haha! But be prepared for a bit of a loss in midbass. The factory speakers (no idea why), are surprisingly good for lower frequency response, but suck for mid and high-end response.

Foam surrounds were the luxury legacy speakers, the more low-end wrx ones were paper cones and surrounds - no expense spared!!