Best Midbass speakers

[alias6]

I bought my car a few months ago (2002 nissan maxima se) and it came with the left front speaker blown. I didn't think it would bother me that much, but since I replaced my head unit (Alpine cda-105) and listen to my music louder than I did before, hearing a rattling noise on my side of the car is horrible. Since I'm a college student who doesn't have a lot of money to spend on things like this, I'm just looking to get two new speakers for the front and be done with it until the summer when I make more money to possibly upgrade to an amp and a sub.

What I'm looking for is a set of 6.5" speakers for my fronts that will produce the best bass and have good quality. I'm not a complete audio noob, I've done some music producing and know that you cannot get amazing bass from a speaker that size, I just want some decent midbass that won't sound like I'm listening to headphones.

To make things worse, I don't want to spend more than like $100 on these.

I was looking at Polk DB651 speakers since the frequency response goes down to I think 35Hz and they had a high sensitivity.

Any ideas?

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[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

$100 and ''best'' don't go in the same sentence as each other

that being said try these

Dayton Audio RS180-4 7" Reference Woofer 4 Ohm

 

[alias6]

I know, I meant the best that I could get for $100, not the best possible, I should of been more clear.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

$100 and ''best'' don't go in the same sentence as each otherthat being said try these

Dayton Audio RS180-4 7" Reference Woofer 4 Ohm

I liked mine aside from the fact that they have a nasty break-up node if you even think about crossing them at 3khz or above, even with a 24db/oct slope. Gotta stay at 2.5khz or lower in my opinion.

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

Those daytons would probably be your best bet, the con is the low crossover point.

 

[Why So Cereal? 5,000+ posts]

You can find some tweets that will go down to 2.5k though. My pioneers in my comp set do.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Best is subjective.

 

[Why So Cereal? 5,000+ posts]

you could always just buy a nice budget comp set.

those polk DB's sound pretty decent.

Some nice coaxials would even be cool off HU power.

 

[da0s44 10+ year member]

I have heard good things about the MB Quart ONX 216's for cheap. Heck you can get a couple sets on ebay for under $200.

 

[Bass911 10+ year member]

M6+ CDT Audio

 

[Chriszle 10+ year member]

Theres no such thing as "best". It depends on what is pleasing to your ears.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

^ Repost

 

[alias6]

Wow so many responses so quickly! thanks everyone!

But, I think I'm going to change my question haha:

I now realize that I probably won't be happy buying a set of speakers for the front for

If I buy the polk speakers which have a RMS of 6-60w and then an amp that does 100w/channel (4 channels)..that'll overpower the speakers if I make it too loud right?

Could I buy an amp that has like 250w total, 120w for front speakers and then 130w for a sub? or would having only 2 speakers connected at first give 125w to each speakers and blow them?

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

Buy a set of peerless HDS mids from parts express....they are on sale right now for $30 a piece, and will x at 4k, and play down to 70ish. You can get a decent 4 channel amp and wire it up as they will take 100 rms, but still sound good on less. Find a decentlly priced set of tweeters on here and away ya go.

 

[dontbeaprix 10+ year member]

It is actually good to have a amp that puts out more power than what your speakers are rated at, especially if you are going with a budget amp. You don't want to run a amp at full gain anyways. Most amps clip at or alittle before half gain anyways. Running a bigger amp than what you need and turning the gain down alows it to run cool and puts out a nice clean signal. I scoped my mb quart amp before I hooked it up to my morels and it didn't quite make it to half gain before clipping the signal and that was with no bass boost or anything. Polks are ok, we put a set in my buddies s-10 and they sound descent just dont pick up alot of detail like my morels do. I hear so much stuff in my speakers that his polk db's don't.

If you are looking for coaxials both Hertz and Morel make some very nice ones that get good reviews, but depending how much you like music and how comfortable you feel with your install skills componets are a worthwhile upgrade from coaxials.