Need Stereo Help, new and stumped Options

[TrdKing]

Ok I went and picked up some 6 1/2" speakers for my celica and came home only to find out about the front being 6 3/4" and the backs 5 1/2"?

What do people actually put in for speakers? size? power? brand?

I bought a decent deck and was just looking for some cheap speakers that sound good to go in with the deck.

After looking at the back speakers is there anyway to actually fit an aftermarket speaker in there they seem to mold to the plastic mounting piece. Could I buy a 5 1/2" and put that in their? Will it require any modification?

I read through the front 6 3/4" inch front speaker install and was wondering is that what everyone is doing? Is it that hard? What about the back?

I bought some Performance Teknique speakers for 150 CAD but they are all 6 1/2"
but heard they arent that great. I am going to bring them back and probably get some panasonic speakers to go with the panasonic deck.

Please help me out I dont want to buy crappy stereo stuff and I would prefer something I can put in myself.

[snadman]

Abraxis: Excellent!

This guy gave you an awesome explanation of what you should be looking for. Yes, ideally we would all love to have a decent 4 channel amp with some components in front and nice speakers in back, but not everyone can afford that. I know if I didn't have my Best Buy discount there'd be no way I'd have the system I do. I would recommend the Pioneer TS-A1681R speakers for the front and the rear you can upgrade if you want. Honestly, with how many installs I've done now, I can tell you that adding front speakers in two door cars makes a huge difference but on the flipside of that, when we then add-on new rears, it doesn't really add much to the sound.

I actually left my stock rears in, have an Alpine 2 channel amp bridged on each side of my fronts which consist of 8" Alpines and 5.25" MB Quart components. Then I just set my fade a little more to the front and the sound is amazing. I tried out having some Inifinity Kappas in the rear and it just didn't add much so I took them back out and returned them.

I guess here's my advice in addition to the excellent advice from Abraxis, you have to take your situation into consideration alone separate of what anyone else has done. First off, how much is your top limit you want to spend? Then how often do you actually have people in the back of your car? --> Because if not very often, then why upgrade the rears? Why not just spent that top limit on a small two channel amp, and some nice coaxials or possibly components if your limit provides enough funding? Otherwise, if you want to do all 4, make sure you don't get 4 way speakers in the rear as that much high frequency hitting your ear from behind hurts at even reasonable volumes. Also make sure you get some speakers rated around 20-30W RMS as abraxis said. No need to get any higher as your deck will underpower them and you risk distortion as well as damage to the speakers.

Sorry we couldn't narrow it down completely for you, probably just added to the confusion but yeah, good luck and post up what you think you're going to do. Good luck man!

This post has been edited by snadman: Aug 21, 2005 - 7:10 PM