speakers, advise Options

[monky32]

Hi, guys!!!

i am gonna buy and install myself new speakers in my celica 98. well i know you can give me a good advise on what brands to buy or not. i've been researching about and i found couple of brands but i don't know if they are good. for example JBL, JL and others like pioneer(common), sony(heard no good) and alpine(my head unit). so any comment would be very apreciated.


thanks guys and merry christmas and happy new year.


El monky.

[Scarrell]

so you are looking for new speakers? well how much do you want to spend and what kind of quality do you want? personally id prefer Infinity, MB Quart, Focal, Rainbow, or CDT. each brand has speakers that will sound great un-amped. but you are better off running a 4 channel amp to your speakers for better perfonmance and sound. other brands to look at are RF, Kicker, Alpine, JL, Memphis. you wont get too much midbass from speakers even if they are amped. but if you do not want to amp any of these speakers then you will still be fine but you wont get as good as quality from them powered off the HU. you can get the JBL 80.4 for about $130 i think. that amp will power them speakers fine and you will notice a big difference when your speakers are amped. you could also look into component sets. all of the brands mentioned have component sets(i dont think Memphis does though). i have heard component sets from all of these and Focal, Rainbow and MB Quart and CDT are the better of them all, the MB Quart Reference series is awesome for the price, and CDT has some good prices also. Infinity isnt far behind, then the other brands are after in no order. getting component sets will bring your music more life and more mids and highs. but its up to you in the end. my next set up will be with speakers/components in the front and just a couple of midbass drivers in the back.. you could also go that setup, ofcourse the midbass drivers will be amped and the speakers amped also and i might have some more speakers powered from the HU. hmm this is getting long. oh and JBL makes good amps. their speakers and subs arent bad but there is better for the money. LaTeR

EDIT: oh yeah and i Definately cannot forget Adire Audio and Resonant Engineering components, id rather have Adire components than any of the above mentioned.

This post has been edited by Scarrell: Dec 22, 2004 - 10:29 PM