Alpine Speakers need some help...
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Hi- I had Circuit City put in those exact speakers and they did a great job. Here is the lowdown though, they sound much better than the original speakers (make sure you keep the stock tweeters). However, the system still needs some work. I have been on these boards for some time investigating this, and many have changed their head units to the Scion. I was ready to do this, but can't as the Scion does not have a cassette deck, and I need to listen to cassettes in my car for work. So, I am looking into other options. For now, with the Alpines, I am getting okay sound by putting the treble to the max, and the bass to the minimum, and the fader to F3 or F4 to pretty much minimize the effect of the rear speakers which put out a poor muffled, low, bassy sound. Lastly, someone wrote on the boards here that they had an amp installed that had a variable crossover, and ran all 4 speakers through the front outputs only, not using the rear ouput of the radio, and this improves the sound???
TRD04RUNNER
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if you want those speaker to sound good you have to get a amp or a good aftermarket HU that put out good rms power! running those speaker with the stock Hu will make them sound like crap. stock Hu only put out like 5 rms power? you need at least 18w rms up to 50w rms in order for them to sound their best.
94yotarunner
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If you're looking for better sound I'd go up a step and get the Type Rs. Big difference but depending where you buy them, not too big a difference in price. Also, you can get a good HU to go with it, and you can expand onto a small sub w/ an amp too. Then you just route all of the bass to the sub and they sound amazing. just my .02
