Worth Upgrading Speakers?

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donmateo

Discussion Starter · May 31, 2011

I'm thinking of upgrading all my interior speakers, well the 4 that I have anyway. lol So, I was looking at the Infinity Kappas and was told their good, they sound like good quality, but I thought I'd ask if that's a good choice and if it's worth upgrading the speakers. The only audio upgrade I have now is an Alpine Type R 12 sub and Alpine MRP-500 Amp. Stock headunit, AM/FM Cassette 1 CD no OnStar. :beer:

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ImpSS07

· #4 · May 31, 2011

It's worth upgrading. I'd rip out my bose ones but I don't drive the car enough right now to care, but I will when I upgrade the head unit.

Oh and My08, don't put a 15 in the trunk. Its a waste of space, get you a nice 12 and a GOOD amp and box and you'll be happy.

I used to have a DD9515 w/ a JBL 1200.1 and it was loud but it weighed my car down like crazy and I had no trunk space left.

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ImpSS07

· #10 · May 31, 2011

thacarter546 said:
The Kappas are awful. At least the new ones are. Quality went way down hill.

I was gonna comment on his choice saying that I liked them, but I've been out of the audio world so long I don't know who makes good shit anymore!!

thacarter546 said:
Oh and a single JBL1200.1 on a DD9515 thats around quarter power for that sub.

That sub will play all day and night long off 4kw RMS

I know, but it was plenty to win me a few small competitions and place 5 in the state A LONG time ago(almost 10yrs now)!! Not to mention I was a broke high school kid making $5.65/hr when I got that setup. I did hurt some feelings though!

AlfredoSmith said:
Unless your going to spend the money to get premium speakers, I really dont think it matters... whether theyre polk, infinity, pioneer, or Sony, all you are going to hear from people is their personal opinions.

Yes its worth upgrading, but your best bet is to define your price range first. Then, distinguish what you want you speakers to do... since you have a sub and no tweets, you probablly want speakers that put out some nice hi-mid range sound. Nothing worse than too much bass.... Use those two bits of info to find your best speaker for the money.

Just my .02.. dont shoot me.

I agree. Personally I will never own any Sony products, pioneer speakers/subs, or polk anything.

Oh and you can NEVER have too much bass, but you can be an ass and annoy other people with it.

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ImpSS07

· #16 · Jun 9, 2011

AlfredoSmith said:
Completely disagree.. especially on a stock setup, its very easy to overload bass and completely drown out your mids and highs. Whats the point of listening to music of all you can hear is the bass notes? A quality sound system is well balanced. You wouldnt throw 2 1000 watt amps on 4 15" subs and still stick with your stock speakers would you? How would you be able to hear any MUSIC?

That's why they have bass knobs/controllers. So with certain music you can adjust your bass levels. I've got 1000w on a single 12 with the stock bose and it stills sound pretty good when I want to bang on the sub. I don't always have the bass up cause I'm getting old(mainly the wifey doesn't like it!)!!

I will say that "most" classical music sounded better through my old setup which was 1200w and a 15 in a 8cube/ft box. Rock/Alternative was just about the only music that doesn't sound good with alot of bass.IMO

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ImpSS07

· #26 · Jun 14, 2011

AlfredoSmith said:
You have 1 12 in sub, and you have Bose... You dont exactly qualify for what I would consider too much bass. And with the stock setup, turning the bass down via the crappy factory headunit does very little... in fact I remember having to fade my speakers to the front all the time because all I could hear was bass.

Nonetheless, if you think theres no such thing as too much bass, why would you ever turn it down?

Yes, now I have 1 12" but I still have 1000 true watts running through it. Just cause you have 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 subs doesn't make it loud if either you don't have enough power to them or you have a shitty box(which will make a HUGE difference). Right now I have my amp gain at about 40% and adjusting the head unit base does affect my sub output do to the fact that I have the LOC wired to my back speakers(until I change my HU).

To answer your last question I've highlighted my previous post since you overlooked it.

ImpSS07 said:
That's why they have bass knobs/controllers. So with certain music you can adjust your bass levels. I've got 1000w on a single 12 with the stock bose and it stills sound pretty good when I want to bang on the sub. I don't always have the bass up cause I'm getting old(mainly the wifey doesn't like it!)!!

I will say that "most" classical music sounded better through my old setup which was 1200w and a 15 in a 8cube/ft box. Rock/Alternative was just about the only music that doesn't sound good with alot of bass.IMO

Hopefully this clears things up.

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ImpSS07

· #31 · Jun 21, 2011

thacarter546 said:
Let me clarify what bose stands for BUY OTHER STEREO EQUIPMENT.

Quite honestly you are better off with amplified stock delco speakers.

Anyone seen the car hitting 155 db with stock delco 6x9"s? or Team toxic bass hitting 140 db with a single 3" paper speaker and 19 watts rms?

No, but then again who goes to audio competitions using stock 6x9's for SQ runs?

I was never into SQ competitions, just bass so I always turned off my door speakers in the Mountaineer with the Alpine I had.

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ImpSS07

· #47 · Jul 8, 2011

I use to run an Alpine HU when I competed and LOVED that fucker!! It never skipped when I bumped my subs for comps or when regular cruising.

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