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.

[exxtractor]

I've purchased from sounddamin/cardomain and feel they are quite reliable. If you read reviews of etronics from pricegrabber.com that should scare you awayfrom shopping with them. I'd never buy from etronics, always skeptical of electronic places located in Brooklyn, NY. That's my opinion. A note on crutchfiled.com, they would state my vehilce uses a 6.5" speaker size up front, but the grill opening and mounting points are for an 8" mount. That's my vehicle, others on the site will have only room for a 6.5" or 6.75" mount. If you do a search on the website for speaker size, you'll find this variation.

In regards to the speakers, my celica will fit an 8" speaker (if I could easily find one) and 6.5 or 6.75" in the rear. No cutting or fitting is needed for the rear. For my vehicle I needed to use an adapter ring (custom made) to mount the speaker to the 8" opening. You can make the adapter rings from ABS plastic, or plywood, if no skills they can be made or bought for your from a local stereo shop. Just remember the Pioneer 160R are 6.5" and the 170R is supposedly "7"" but as the website states it will fit easily in a 6.5" or 6.75" One guy I think here cut out the old factory speaker from it metal mount and used it as a mounting ring for his new speakers.

Actually owning the pioneer speakers there is a slight size difference, so you may not feel it is worthwhile to pay and extra $10.

This post has been edited by exxtractor: Dec 25, 2004 - 5:29 PM