speakers, advise Options

[Scarrell]

well first of all what size speaker holes are in your car? i doubt you have 7" speakers in your car, if you dont, and you buy them Infinity's you will have do some cutting or baffle making.. if i remember right the Infinity 6 1/2"s are the same price as the 7" ones, id go with the Infinity's out of them all, then the Pioneers. but anyway, you can go through Crutchfield and get the size speakers you have, their site will tell you.

[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

[monky32]

well the soundomain website shows that i can fit 4", 6.5" and 7" in my celica 98 i don't know if that is right but i guess i have to take my door panels off and check my speakers(shouldn't they be 6 3/4" speakers though).

guys, should i rewire the speakers as well? would this make a difference?

monky

[Scarrell]

yeah, sorry.. its really up to you if you want 7" if it doesnt fit too well, just do some sanding down and make it fit.... or make a baffle. anyway. replacing the factory speaker wire will not make a noticeable difference, but i always do this just to do it... remember to make sure you have them wired up right, an easy way to tell if they arent is if one side is louder than the other (fade left to right with reasonable volume levels.) do this before you install it all. hmm what else... oh and for speaker size. id go with 6 1/2" i wouldnt use 4" speakers, they wouldnt have very good bass response at all. 5 1/2" and 6 1/2" is all i would use for speakers (i go with 6 1/2"). they will have better bass response than 4", never used a 7". probably wont be any difference. anyway im here to help so ask any questions you got, i hope i helped you out. let us know!

[monky32]

hey guys!!! after researching and with your help i decided going with infinity kappa 62.1.5 6 3/4" speakers. so i've been looking for a place to buy them and so far EBay is the best deal i can find but i have to say that most of the warranties offered by those guys at ebay don't give me confidence (15 to 30 days warranty) but the price is really good say 90 dollars for a pair shipping included. in the other hand i have sounddomain 119 dollars a pair but 3 years warranty so what would you do?

[Scarrell]

id go the Sounddomain way, with a 3 year warranty you cant beat that.. i dont Ebay and never will so i cant really say much on that part. since no one seems to trust Etronics(bought from there and so have alot of my friends), i cant really suggest any other places.... try www.thezeb.com , www.carstereomall.com www.ikesounds.com (or ikesound, i dont remember) , www.partsexpress.com www.woofersect.com ..... Best Buy and Circuit City might have some good deals.....

[D4W5]

i love my jbl set up in my other car,recomended,i can get a set of pineer 8" for my doors 3 way coax instead of fittin 8 " subs,should sound groovy