Good Car Speakers

[UE-Maxx]

I don't want to throw some cvr's in my car, but the stock speakers are pretty bad. What's a good brand speaker?

[Ponch]

J/C...What size speakers are in there?

[J-Dub]

Pioneeeeeer, Fosgate.

[BJoe]

I've got 5.25" Infinity's in the front doors on my Jeep and want to put either 5.25" or 6.5" Infinities in the roof just ahead of the hatch. When we put them in, Dad and I used 14 guage wire from Horizon Hobby and Deans plugs running from the factory harness to the speaker harness. Stock wire was about 20 guage or smaller!

Here's old and new


Here's how we set up the speaker pigtail


The D/S door wires


Stock Plugs


Installed, which took punching new holes in the door (Dad prefered punching instead of drilling the holes, which is supposed to hold the screws better)

[Ponch]

LLLMMMAAAOOO Deans...Nice Nice.

I was reading....If you're solding wires for speakers etc, use copper solder instead of silver or whatever...

[FreeRideFrosty]

I think the best bang for the buck is the Infinity Kappa Perfect line up. Not only are the interiors good, but the subs hit hard and clear.

[blktransam]

I have always been a alpine Type R, or Type S fan myself...have them all the way around in our explorer and they sound VERY good with no distortion, had the subs about 4 years ago just 2 10's and they also sounded very nice

[FreeRideFrosty]

I will also say that I was quite impressed with the Type R. I wanted a Type X for a while but came to my senses and got an Adire Audio Brahma.

[UE-Maxx]

J/C...What size speakers are in there?

Haven't gotten around to taking the front door panel off yet, but the rear speakers are 4" and the fronts appear to be the same size.

I'm going to take a ride tomorrow to check out what best buy has.

[FreeRideFrosty]

I'm going to take a ride tomorrow to check out what best buy has.

Problem number one. If you can, try to go through a smaller audio specific store. They will often have lower end stuff in the same price range as best buy, and infinitely better. They are more knowledgeable and you may get lucky and find some close outs....

[UE-Maxx]

Ok. I was going to do some pricing around, but thanks for the heads up.

[FreeRideFrosty]

No worries. About the only thing I could see picking up at Best Buy would be an Alpine Type R. They seem to have decent prices on them and they are a solid sub.

[snakebite46]

What's your take on ordering from Crutchfield. I bought a radio from them in the past because I had a gift card. Looking to buy some door speakers as well. You think they have decent prices ??? What's your opinion on Polk Audio speakers? I'm looking for some 6 1/2 or 6 3/4

[UE-Maxx]

I think I am SOL because it looks like all aftermarket speakers won't fit unless I put some 4" speakers in my doors. I picked up some infinity 5 1/4" and they won't in the whole that the stock speaker is in. I don't want to cut up the door or anything.

[BJoe]

Which Infinity's and can you put them elsewhere in the car?

[UE-Maxx]

Some references. They didn't have any kappa's and the alpine type R's only came in a 6 1/2". There's really no other place to put it in the car other than on the rear deck/in the trunk and I don't want to wire everything back there.