Good speakers, Here's what I'm trying to achieve. Options

[RabidTRD]

So I want decent bass, but I don't want to run subs... I've never liked the amount of space they take up and I don't want THAT much bass.

What I am looking to do is replace all of the speakers. All work fine and I have the GT model with the 6 speaker stereo and amp. I have a SONY XPLOD head unit that does 52x4 watts (208 total) with rear or sub selectable out. So what I want to do is put speakers in the rear that are decent on bass, use those primarily for the bass and then replace the tweeters to higher quality ones, and replace the door speakers with something to give me my mid range.

What are good brands that I can check out that wont rape me in cost, but be effective in the area's I'm looking. Does anyone here have any experience with high bass speakers that aren't subs? Could I run an 8" sub in place of a rear speaker and wire it the same as the speakers?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[SupraKid]

You can keep the Sony, but youd need to get a 4 or 2 ch amp. Sony is NOTORIOUS for exaggerating there power outputs of their amps and headunits. My recommendation is to get a set of 8" subs for the front doors and use a 2 ch amp to power them, then get a set of nice 3 way speakers for the rear, kicker,infinity,boston,kenwood are my preferred speaker brands. Your other option is to get a nice headunit and get 4 6.5" speakers (kicker has the most bass and sound clarity IMO)and that would give you a good amount of base. But your sony headunit wont be able to put out enough power to run a bassy speaker system.


The issue with having your speakers supply the highs, mids AND lows is during bass you lose the sound quality of the mids and highs as the speakers are trying to go low end bass. With a sub the speakers don't do any bass so you get excellent sound during bass.