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<blockquote data-quote="Stingerssx" data-source="post: 8211110" data-attributes="member: 659199">I currently have some Infinity Reference 5.25&quot; in the front doors of&nbsp; my &#039;88 CRX. I have a Directed 250 powering them. And I also have a JVC head, cheap EQ, and an Infinity crossover in the mix. Along with another amp for the subs. (I&#039;ll worry about those later)I&#039;ve been through many different setups in this car, and my previous &#039;90 CRX. Both starting with the HU and the speakers, (doors and rears). I couldn&#039;t get rid of the crappy sound quality. I added a crossover, an amp and a sub. (mids and highs still of the HU) Then messed with the HU settings, then added an EQ. Then I messed with the EQ settings, and HU EQ (both separate and together) and played with the frequencies and levels on the crossover. Then amped the mids and highs. And tried messing with all of the settings again, but same crappy sound.I&#039;ve gone through at least 5 different HUs, and maybe more sets of speakers. I&#039;ve tried different amps, and basically, the crappy sound just gets louder.The only thing that I haven&#039;t done is kick panels. I can&#039;t go with them because it&#039;s a stick, and I have size 12 feet that barely even fit down there on their own!What I&#039;m talking about is there is an ugly midrange, no highs (or too high), and the lows are muddy and distort.I&#039;ve tried many songs ripped from the CDs in bitrates of 128, 320 and straight of the CDs.I&#039;m not enough of an audiophile to tell the difference between these, so I&#039;m under the impression that the song isn&#039;t the problem. Yes, some songs sound better than others, and I want to change the settings from song to song, but I try not to.I&#039;ve opened the doors so I have a more direct point of view from the speakers, and still, crappy sound. I don&#039;t think that positioning would help. And I also have sealed up the doors completely. All holes sealed and sealed the speaker to the plastic baffles. At first, I just set the speakers in the baffles because I didn&#039;t want to cut them, but finally I cut out the rear.I had 6.5&quot;s in the rear, (I&#039;ve tried many sets) they too sounded pretty bad. I could never get them balanced to the fronts. The rears have too much bass and the fronts have none. So I cut out the rears. Later, if I can get the fronts sounding good, I&#039;ll hook the rears up to the head, and figure out how to make them sound good.I added the EQ because I thought that would help. What happens is the highs really bring out the static now. So I&#039;m thinking of removing it. My HU has a single output, so I need either the EQ or the crossover to split the single output between my highs and lows.I&#039;ve had all of these components in other cars, (one was my wife&#039;s &#039;94 Civic) and they sound WAY better! This is why I&#039;m so stumped. I can&#039;t figure this one out.Anybody have any opinions? I can answer any questions that need to be answered.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stingerssx, post: 8211110, member: 659199"] I currently have some Infinity Reference 5.25" in the front doors of my '88 CRX. I have a Directed 250 powering them. And I also have a JVC head, cheap EQ, and an Infinity crossover in the mix. Along with another amp for the subs. (I'll worry about those later) I've been through many different setups in this car, and my previous '90 CRX. Both starting with the HU and the speakers, (doors and rears). I couldn't get rid of the crappy sound quality. I added a crossover, an amp and a sub. (mids and highs still of the HU) Then messed with the HU settings, then added an EQ. Then I messed with the EQ settings, and HU EQ (both separate and together) and played with the frequencies and levels on the crossover. Then amped the mids and highs. And tried messing with all of the settings again, but same crappy sound. I've gone through at least 5 different HUs, and maybe more sets of speakers. I've tried different amps, and basically, the crappy sound just gets louder. The only thing that I haven't done is kick panels. I can't go with them because it's a stick, and I have size 12 feet that barely even fit down there on their own! What I'm talking about is there is an ugly midrange, no highs (or too high), and the lows are muddy and distort. I've tried many songs ripped from the CDs in bitrates of 128, 320 and straight of the CDs. I'm not enough of an audiophile to tell the difference between these, so I'm under the impression that the song isn't the problem. Yes, some songs sound better than others, and I want to change the settings from song to song, but I try not to. I've opened the doors so I have a more direct point of view from the speakers, and still, crappy sound. I don't think that positioning would help. And I also have sealed up the doors completely. All holes sealed and sealed the speaker to the plastic baffles. At first, I just set the speakers in the baffles because I didn't want to cut them, but finally I cut out the rear. I had 6.5"s in the rear, (I've tried many sets) they too sounded pretty bad. I could never get them balanced to the fronts. The rears have too much bass and the fronts have none. So I cut out the rears. Later, if I can get the fronts sounding good, I'll hook the rears up to the head, and figure out how to make them sound good. I added the EQ because I thought that would help. What happens is the highs really bring out the static now. So I'm thinking of removing it. My HU has a single output, so I need either the EQ or the crossover to split the single output between my highs and lows. I've had all of these components in other cars, (one was my wife's '94 Civic) and they sound WAY better! This is why I'm so stumped. I can't figure this one out. Anybody have any opinions? I can answer any questions that need to be answered. [/QUOTE]

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