Recent content by shackles

I have a Kicker CVT10 in my truck because of the mounting depth restrictions and it sounds pretty good for a single 10" with a very small sealed enclosure. I can't comment on the others your considering but Kicker seems to be a decent product although I'm sure there is way higher end stuff than...

Like some of the guys have said, there's more to it then just the specification db@1W@1m which is ideal. A 3db change is just audible by human hearing so yes the 90db would be just slightly louder than the 86.5db speaker with 1watt input. With everything being equal the difference is that the...

Why is it that electronics places are always trying to sell you on a new HU? There must be big profit in those. IMO If your just looking to make the system work and sound ok then replace the wrecked speakers and upgrade the factory ones which are probably cheap and past their prime. For 2 1/2"...

I had a friend who had those in his car and other than being loud they sounded like a cheap pair of speakers being overdriven when compared to today's set ups with separate components, high power subs and amps with lots of dynamic headroom. I had some of the "loud" types of car audio equipment...

Before I start sinking money into the 4 ch amp plus speakers I was thinking of first upgrading the speakers. The Hertz stuff sounds like good equipment but here in Canada there are no dealers to make that easy. I was considering a set of these JL's for the first step and if I decide to move up...

Thanks for the replies. Yes I'm aware that a 4ch amp would be the best route to go and I will probably do that when funds are available. But in the mean time I still would like better speakers until I do that. The factory's didn't sound very good with the factory GM HU when there wasn't a...

I'd like to keep it below $180 if I could.

Any advice on a decent set of speakers for the front doors of my Sierra. I'm not looking for super high end stuff and I'm running it from the HU at 20WRMS max so I assume they'll need to be in the 90db-93db efficiency range to get some volume out of them. The stock GM ones sound crappy/lacking...

Similarly my JVC R800BT HU will not operate my mono amp when in SubWoofer mode. It has front and rear pre-outs and I'm using the rears. When it's set to "rear" rather than SubWoofer it works fine with plenty of bass. So this of course renders the HPF un-usable since it only works in Subwoofer...

Thanks for the info! And the little annoying ever changing spiderweb display at the right top corner of this JVC HU is for what purpose????

Hi.Happy to be part of this forum. Audio has always been my interest and I used to build home audio speaker systems and crossovers from scratch as my hobby. Here's the setup I just did in my '05 Sierra crew cab. I wanted to keep it budget friendly, maximum space saving and still sound decent...