What are the best car audio speakers?
You silly kiddos, I tell ya. If you're looking for great quality sound at high volumes, why the hell are you searching for speakers solely by the highest power ratings? Not the way to search.. Sure, polk may make some decent speakers. Infinity as well. But there are definitely others out there that FAR surpass those mentioned so far. Unless you've spent countless hours tuning your active crossovers, finding out the best position for sound imaging and stupid amounts of money, you shouldn't be saying that polk/infinity is the best. Component systems are the way to go. Find yourself a nice 2- or 3-way system with either passive or active crossovers (they'll both sound great, just depends on how much you're willing to spend) They'll start around $50 for a basic 2-way get-up and into the thousands of dollars. Then you'll forget all about those 6x9 coaxial's. I would say that a better (NOT best) list to check would be JBL, CDT, Image Dynamics, Focal, Rainbow, Hertz, Morel, Dynaudio and so on. MTX and Kicker are NOT what you're looking for..
Is there any way I can make my car speakers louder?
Assuming you have a standard car stereo now, if working properly it really should play sufficiently loud turned all the way up. Some simple things you can try are:If you are playing songs via blue tooth or usb from your phone, make sure your volume is all the way up on the phone.Listen to each speaker individually, do they make sound and does it sound reasonably good? If not you may have a blown speaker or bad wiring.Center your balance and fader controls on your radio. Also Center your tone control - just for the sake of argument.If it still isn’t loud enough for you after you have checked out those things, then there is a $3billion industry ready to take your hard earned dollars. You’ll want new speakers, an amplifier, and a new head unit. Still not enough, you’ll want to add another amplifier and large subwoofers that will rattle your neighbors commemorative plates off the walls. :) Please don’t ruin your hearing.
Why can't I get my aux on stereo to play both speakers?
As Michael Chang stated, it could be a problem with the aux cord or connection.Since the stereo itself can play to all speakers correctly when it's the source, then the problem isn't between where the stereo communicates with the speakers.But when you're using an external device as the source through the aux input, then there's a problem so that means the issue is most likely between your external source communicating with your stereo via the aux cord/input.So either your aux cord is damaged (this happens often, especially if it's a very used cord), the aux input on your stereo is damaged, and/or the aux output on your external source (mp3 player or tape/cd player) is damaged.Start swapping out different components. I.E. Try swapping out the aux cord with a different one. If that fixes it then you know the problem was with the cord. If that doesn't fix it then you know the problem isn't with the cord and has to be with the aux output of the device you're using or the aux input of your stereo. Keep doing this with different components until you can zero in on the issue.Also, be sure your device is set up to playback correctly if you can access those settings. Unless you manually changed the settings this shouldn't be an issue, but make sure whatever device you have plugged in to your stereo is setup to play to all speakers. For instance, Apple iTouches can be set up to play all audio to just the left or right speakers.
Car speakers? Need help deciding.?
So I got a car (99 pontiac sunfire) and decided that I'm going to change the speakers. I bought the hd by scosche 6 x 9 for the back and still have stock front speakers. Im looking for a pretty sick set up but have no idea of what to get. My thoughts right now are to put the hd by scosche 6x9's in then change the fronts speakers but I know I'll want more bass and ''power''. I want something that'll sound sweet and not blowup or catch on fire. After putting in the 6x9's and front speakers I'll probably look for subs. I'm thinking two pioneers from walmart and have no idea on what kind of amp to use. With all this, I'm going to get a new stereo sooner or later and I'm not for sure if the stereo itself will affect how much power my speakers get. Basically, I'm looking to stay on a budget of up to 600. Have no idea if I can get two pioneer subs, stereo, amp, and front speakers with that. Any suggestions, or help. And with my idea what would this be on a scale of 1-10. 1 being terrible, 10 being blow your mind. I can also return the scosches and get pioneers if necessary. Would it be worth shipping speakers to my house or would speakers, sub, and amp from walmart be acceptable.? Tips, tricks, hints, suggestions, etc would be muchly appreciated. Also, I think I'll be good on the electrical setup bcuz my relative has worked on stereos for a career. Brief summaries or long explanations, anything will help.
If my car stereo specifies 52wX4,that means i can only get speakers with a wattage range of 52 or less?
You should install speakers that can tolerate more then 52 watts. Watts is a measure of power. If your deck is putting out 52 Watts/channel peak power, your speakers need to be able to tolerate at least that much. You should also look into the RMS power per channel of your deck and be sure that your speakers can tolerate at least that much power as well. RMS power is more like an average power supplied by the deck and delivered to the speakers. Peak power is the maximum power that can be transmitted by the deck and received by the speaker at any point in time. In response to previous answers, you can not damage your deck by choosing speakers with a higher power rating then your deck can supply. The power rating of your speakers tells you how much power they can tolerate when operating at their maximum. If you go over that level you risk damaging them, however if your deck can not supply as much power as their maximum power rating you won't need to worry about this at all!
Can you use 8 ohm speakers on a 4 ohm stereo system?
Yes, this is perfectly acceptable and quite frankly I'm a bit shocked at how many incorrect answers you are getting. You can always go up but never down from any amplifier's rated minimum speaker impedance. To understand the principal; The speaker is in simplified electrical terms a length of wire (the voice coil.) The longer and thinner it is the higher it's resistance (a high Ohm number - 16.) The shorter and thicker, the lower it's resistance (a low Ohm number - 4.) Lower resistance simply means that it returns more electrons back to the amplifier. The more electrons that flow through the final stage of an amplifier - the transistors - the hotter it gets. Heat is it's enemy. In my trade we use transistorized output controls to open and close electro-magnetic valves. These valves are usually from between 40 to 120 Ohms. If, in the course of repairs or installation one gets shorted or jumped to the next valve the output transistors will literally explode. Pop! Like a Chinese "ladyfinger" firecracker. This because the resistance has become far less and the current coming back to the transistor has become far greater than it can handle. 0 Ohms is a direct short and an open circuit is infinity Ohms. There is one caveat to lowering the resistance of speakers connected to audio amplifiers however: Because of the way they are designed the higher the resistance of the speakers the less power they will deliver to them. In the case of 4 ohms to 8 Ohms the difference is nominal. This is why car audio amps and speakers are usually rated at 4 to 2 Ohms. More power Boom Boom! You can see the difference of power output vs. speaker impedance by examining the output ratings of this professional power amplifier: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/C... As you state that the system power is now well more than enough I feel that you will be perfectly satisfied with the results. Furthermore, given that these are older, and presumably better speakers than the usual "plastic box" speakers that currently dominate the market, the system will sound better than it did particularly taking into account that they are probably more efficient than the original speakers.
Car audio system for newbie (Honda Stream)?
You have a very good idea already, the highs will sound great off of the PDX F4, don't want to overdo the power on the amp to the speakers if you have the choice. You could go with the other but would have to turn the gain down to keep from blowing the speakers. Now as for the amp, no matter what ohm you run it at, it will push 1000W rms, kinda strange but ok. I have 4 15" Kicker L7 4 ohm DVC's running off an older model amp exactly like this and let me tell you, the bass is ridiculously loud. Since this amp is 1 ohm stable, you would benefit most from 2 JL 12W7-3, these subs are a 3 ohm series which doubling them up will pull a 1.5 ohm load from the amp and not overload it. I used to push 2 15" Kicker L7 4 ohm DVC's and 2 15" Alpine Type R 4 ohm DVC's but the square Kicker sub pushed more volume of air because of the shape. The Alpine's sounded awesome too but wanted a matching set in the custom made ported super box I have in the back of my 99 Yukon. You will definitely be happy with this amp. For the power supply, you will need to do The Big Three, add a deep cycle battery (Optima, Stinger or whatever your local audio shop sells). And don't be cheap on the wiring job- 2 or 0 gauge MINIMUM power wire and a 100A fuse MINIMUM also, 12 gauge speaker wire (inside the box and from the amp to the box) and high quality pair of rca's. After all that, if you have power problems- you'll need to upgrade the alternator also but only if you're having power problems (lights dimming, battery draining). Hope this helps, good luck