Sound quality, Less is more.. Options

[Nibbe]

Lets start from that why everybody always thinks that more is better? Its really fact that one sub sounds better than two or even more ones. And why not get one better quality sub with the same money besides two or even more low quality ones. Its just that youre putting the same money into setting that doesnt sound even nearly as good as it could. Less is sometimes more and it doesnt matter what is the quality of the subs or speakers. Example if you have two same subs in your trunk by taking the other one off your sound quality will definetly gain.

Here is little example of a good setup if your looking for nice sound quality. One 10 or 12" sub that is two ohm able with a decent amp. Into the front some two way speakers with some decent amp. Plus dont forget the cross over and some quality battery (optima yellow top is the thing). And when you want to gain your sound quality from here then dont get more! Change the ice (in car electronics) that you already got to some better ones. Like the front setup for some three way speakers, better quality sub that has more ohm able and then run those with some better quality amps (watts really doesnt matter its the ohms that your putting to your speakers which caunts). Example when you put more ohms to your sub it stays better on with the music and bounces the exactly right time and same in the cross overs that the 0.5farad works quicker than the 10farad one. And if youre this far then dont forget the sound proofing. It also helps with a lower quality setup but when youre really putting on some quality stuff this must be done. Ofcourse the capels caunt too but this kind of things you solve by yourself if your really going this far.

Hope this gives you a little idea how you should build your system to make it sound good. Some good sets starts from 1 000 usds + headunit and i think theres no limit how much you could put on your ice.

(If your looking for some dB then more is more and the watts caunt and then it really is all about that how loud it is. And i promise you that a good sound quality set makes that many dB that everybody would leave from the street where youre listening. )

I didnt want to make this topic too long so everybody that are even little intrested could read this. Theres so much more but i think these are the main points and gives you a idea.

[Negative]

I agree with what they said but the lack of rear speakers is really just an opinion. I upgraded to RF component 6.5"s/tweets in the fanatic series for my rear speakers matched with RF 15" P1 with RF 400x4 watts amp for rears and fronts and a RF 300x2 watts amp for sub. Sony atrac fold down head deck [gotta love 300+ CD quality songs per disc - waaaaay better than MP3] completes the setup. Notice I left the fronts with my stock 8"s and tweets. That's just my opinion. I prefer most of the sound from the rear with the fronts just to supply the fill they spoke of. Since most Celicas got the same size speakers front and rear you can just buy one set and switch them out to see which way you prefer.

One more thing to add to the above ideas - don't cheap out on the front and rear speakers. It took alot of trying to find speakers that outperformed the stock premium sound setup. They would always have better sound quality but not able to hold the wattage from my amps that the stock ones could. Weird I know but both my '95 GT and now my '99 GT had killer performing stock speakers. They just didn't seem to give a damn how much wattage I put to them. The problem I had was purely in sound quality - I wanted better sounding speakers.

Nice write up Nibbe and Soven.