Can I mix car speakers? For example, can I install a different brand speakers in the front door than the rear door?
Just about all car speakers are 4 Ohm. And most modern head units are rated for 50–60 Watts into 4 Ohms. You can connect any 4 Ohm speaker to a 4 ohm head unit but if the speaker is not rated to handle the power (In Watts), it could be damaged at high volume. This is not normally a problem with a normal radio, but once you start using booster amps, the power rating should preferably be double the Amp rating for safety. Some power amps are claimed “Stable for 2 Ohms” These can be used with a 4 Ohm speaker or even 2 in parallel. It is always safe to put 2 speakers in series or to put 2 x 8 Ohm speakers in parallel into a 4 Ohm head unit. If you do install multiple speakers, pay attention to the polarity, otherwise you will lose bass performance.
Need car speakers help pleaseeee!!!!?
What are you powering the speakers with? These are clearly peak (meaningless) power ratings. Kicker has 4 variations of 3.5" speakers ranging from 20w rms to 30w rms each. Pioneer's current 3 ways, the TS-A167R (300w peak/pair) are 50w rms each. Neither of those pairs of speakers are intended to do much regarding bass. The 3.5's can't do much of anything until you get outside the "bass" range entirely. They are closer to a tweeter than a bass speaker. The 6.5's can produce a little bass, but if you're only running them with head unit power they're not going to do much either. As for your 6x9's -- Having more "ways" is NO indication of the ability of a speaker to play bass. A standard 2-way (woofer-tweeter) has no less ability to produce bass than a 5-way. A 5-way is just a woofer and 4 tweeters, which in all honesty is a goofy marketing gimmick. One 6x9 woofer only needs 1 good tweeter for high/low balance. The 3 extra tweeters just play to the novice buyer's suspicion that more must be better. That being said -- SOME 6x9's can do a decent job producing bass, but without a small amp to run them (50 x 2) they aren't going to improve your situation all that much. Amp example -- this one's a bit over-rated, but should give you 40-50w rms per channel -- http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_4360...
Which 6x9 car speaker is best? (MB Quart, Pioneer, Alpine or Rockford Fosgate)?
GW funk has no clue whats he's talking about. the Quarts are going to be your best choice. they'll give you the best SQ out of all 3, and a good range of sound for a 6x9. my next choice, and its not even close the Quarts are the clear choice would be the Pioneer. there not that great of a speaker, but there better then the Alpine and the Rockford Alpine 6x9s have 0 bass to them. my stock 6x9s put out more bass then the type Rs that i got, and then took back. if your looking for bass outta a 6x9, then dont get this one. Rockford 6x9s just sound awful. they have bass, but there mids and highs are just terible. i wouldnt get these, nor would i recomend them to anyone i like. good luck
What kind of car speakers? (Watts)?
It is not wattage that kills or damages speakers. It's distortion. Even an expensive car radio will have far more distortion then an inexpensive amp. You should be looking for a good quality set of speakers, as opposed to trying to match wattage. Based on the fact that you only want to replace the rear speakers as opposed to building a system, you should be looking for a speakers that meet the following criteria for the best performance, and sound quality. Frequency response. The lower the first number will mean lower bass. The higher Second number will mean better treble. 30HZ-20KHZ would be good {human hearing range is typically 20Hz to 20KHz} Efficiency is measured in SPL. This means the speaker will sound better with less power. 92db SPL would be good. For great value and decent sound I would recommend Pioneer. I have a set of 5 way 6X9" that sound great and only set me back about $120. They are also very forgiving to the amount of abuse I deal them. If price is no option then a set of Infinity kappa's or MBquart would be a good choice (around $220+) As far as Sony car speakers, I have never been impressed with the spec's or the value of this brand. Email me if you need more help.
Matching car speakers and headunit up?
Hi, To help you understand how it works in basic terms. The head unit puts out power and the speakers use that power to produce sound and the output is rated per channel. For example, 4 x 20 rms means the head unit can power four seperate channels at 20 watts rms each. If you speakers are rated at 45 watts rms per speaker then you can use any head unit or amplifier that gives them 45 watts rms or less. RMS power ratings to do not always indicate if the speaker sounds good or not. There are too many variables to say that for sure. The most important thing is how do they sound to you? A couple tips: 1. To get the best sound out of your speakers an external amplifier would work best. Amps in car stereo head units are often too small and the power is not clean enough to maximize the sound quality of your speakers. 2. If you don't want to add an external amp you may want to find a higher power head unit that 20 watts rms. I've listed some sources below. Also, it's an inexact science regarding watts RMS. We have seen 50 watt RMS speakers handle 100 watts RMS for years with no problems.
Will a 75 watts RMS amp blow 60 RMS speakers?
The amp doesn't always put out 75 watts. that's it's max (RMS) value. If you listen to it at lets say.. "medium" volume, then the amp might put out 25 Watts RMS. It's all about getting your settings right. Your amp should actually be able to over power. because this way you will never use your amps "maximum" Which is when you get distortion. You would have a better chance of blowing speakers with an amp that puts out 55W RMS but you run it full blast with the gain up. As an amplifier reaches it's max operating power it introduces more distortion. Distortion is very hard for a speaker to reproduce and usually cases them to blow. When you set up your gains, just make sure you do everything so that you are setting it for your max listening volume. Then adjust to eliminate distortion in your speakers. If your max is clean and crisp, you wont have an issue.
How much amp power for stereo speakers?
trust your own ears. from the start of home sound systems the sales department has paid no attention to physics, and the engineers have been co-opted to using an arbitrary set of numbers that large and conditional. but your own ears can discriminate the finest of differences. trust them.to put the whole thing into relative scale. imagine you are standing 6 feet in front of a trumpet player playing fortisimo. that is 6 watts of sound energy being made. human hearing is logarithmic and perceives a great range. so your objective is to match up you budget with what is a satisfactory performance. an average quality home system might be 50 watts/channel in the parlance of the marketeers.another aspect is you will hardly ever play at full volume. people will complain. so a really effective strategy is to build a modest speaker setup for background and party sound, and the get a good set of bluetooth earphones for loud and quality music listeningselect some samples of music from your own collection that you know well.when your speaker is given too much power, the cone will develop standing waves that make the sound muddy. you’ll notice the drum beats modulating the horn and voice sounds. a singer won’t stand out in front of the band.when you amplifier isn’t enough and is overdriven the sound waves are seriously clipped at the max voltage of the amp supply. this is an interesting sound, because it is pure distortion, but is also a characteristic of early rock because of the poor amps they used to use. so our ears were trained to like this distortion. Again, the effect of this is to mix voices so they don’t stand out as much. To notice this the trick is simply play a passage at modest levels paying full attention to the voices and instruments being separate. then play the same passage at higher and higher levels. it’s easy to train your ears to say better or worse without knowing the technical jargon.one of the most important things you can do is use large gauge wire from the amp to the speakers. this allows the back emf of the speaker (which in effect is an error signal) to be fed back in the amps feedback system, rather than isolated from it by the resistance of the wires.good luck.
What are the differences between a 4 ohm amp and a 8 ohm speaker?
Very simply, their resistance/impedance. A 4 ohm speaker has less resistance/impedance and an 8 ohm speaker has around double the 4 ohm resistance/impedance.What does this mean for to the owner/user? It means the amplifier used should have been designed too work well with the speakers resultant nominal impedance. Most of today’s amplifiers should work well with either. It also means that you have to be careful how you wire them up. Some amps allow more than one set of speakers to be connected to the amp, but somewhere in the small print it warns not to do that with 4 ohm speaker systems, but it would be OK if two 8 ohm speakers sets were connected.This is because the lower resistance/impedance allows the amplifier to work at a higher power output, and if placed in parallel, two 4 ohm sets will result in the amplifier seeing only 2 ohms (nominally) and might push the amplifier beyond its safe operating range and at the very least possibly blow a fuse when pushed hard.Always make sure your amplifier is capable of handling the speaker impedance before connecting them of for use.Happy listening!