Car Speaker Upgrade

[jermeljbh7]

I currently have a Mercedes E320. I changed the headunit to a double din Sony XAV-65. Iam looking to change all four door speakers to some 6.5 inch 200 RMS speakers, I will be installing a 4 channel amp to push the speakers. I would like to buy four speakers, install them, connect the four channel amp to them, but I want some good quality speakers, I do not want any speakers that sound distorted when I turn my head unit all the way up. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

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[JohnKuthe]

I currently have a Mercedes E320. I changed the headunit to a double din Sony XAV-65. Iam looking to change all four door speakers to some 6.5 inch 200 RMS speakers, I will be installing a 4 channel amp to push the speakers. I would like to buy four speakers, install them, connect the four channel amp to them, but I want some good quality speakers, I do not want any speakers that sound distorted when I turn my head unit all the way up. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Generally, it's never a good idea to turn you HU all the way up. Normally that gets you into amp distortion-ville!

There are some very good 6.5" car speakers. JL Audio, Focal, Hertz, etc. I love PHDs too, I have a pair of their 5.1 5.25" AFs that are sweet!

John Kuthe...

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Generally, it's never a good idea to turn you HU all the way up. Normally that gets you into amp distortion-ville!
There are some very good 6.5" car speakers. JL Audio, Focal, Hertz, etc. I love PHDs too, I have a pair of their 5.1 5.25" AFs that are sweet!

John Kuthe...

mines go up to max distortion free.... Just pick head units better.... .015% THD at max. He just said a typo with .15

 

[JohnKuthe]

mines go up to max distortion free.... Just pick head units better....

All depends on your HU and amp setup. Best way to amplifier distortion is to not drive them past their amplifier's transistors linear range, which usually means choosing amplifiers rated at far more power than you will ever use.

John Kuthe...

 

[Flipper245]

All depends on your HU and amp setup. Best way to amplifier distortion is to not drive them past their amplifier's transistors linear range, which usually means choosing amplifiers rated at far more power than you will ever use.
John Kuthe...

Dude! You're such a hypocrite! You were going to wire your sub to pull 200 watts when it's rated 500. Stop contradicting yourself. Why are you trying to give people advice?

 

[JohnKuthe]

Dude! You're such a hypocrite! You were going to wire your sub to pull 200 watts when it's rated 500. Stop contradicting yourself. Why are you trying to give people advice?

Yeah, that would have been a bad decision, but I was a little power shy after destroying my Alpine 12" sub with badly set amp gains and full power (all the way up at the HU) playing! And the guy at Custom Sounds recommended parallel wiring of my JL Audio sub's two 4 Ohm voice coils which turns out to be the best I could get out of this sub.

And do you even know how transistors can be used both as switches AND linear amplifier components? I do because we studied them in my Electrical Engineering education!

John Kuthe...

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, that would have been a bad decision, but I was a little power shy after destroying my Alpine 12" sub with badly set amp gains and full power (all the way up at the HU) playing! And the guy at Custom Sounds recommended parallel wiring of my JL Audio sub's two 4 Ohm voice coils which turns out to be the best I could get out of this sub.
And do you even know how transistors can be used both as switches AND linear amplifier components? I do because we studied them in my Electrical Engineering education!

John Kuthe...

you didnt study sh*t your are a quack nurse that sues everybody and get settlement claims. GTFO of here. Electrical engineer fking up something as simple as a car audio install LMAO.. Cant even get a DSP to turn on LMAO. You didnt learn JACK SH*T All the BS you are spewing out right now is exactly what we told you over the course of the time you've been here. When you first came you absolutely knew NOTHING. Now you take what you read and claim you learned it in electrical engineering. EVERYONE SEES THROUGH YOUR BULLSH*T JANE.

 

[Flipper245]

Yeah, that would have been a bad decision, but I was a little power shy after destroying my Alpine 12" sub with badly set amp gains and full power (all the way up at the HU) playing! And the guy at Custom Sounds recommended parallel wiring of my JL Audio sub's two 4 Ohm voice coils which turns out to be the best I could get out of this sub.
And do you even know how transistors can be used both as switches AND linear amplifier components? I do because we studied them in my Electrical Engineering education!

John Kuthe...

Yeah I know exactly how a transistor works. You don't have to be an engineer to figure that one out. Or even smart for that matter, ie, you. And knowing that has almost no relevance on this forum.

 

[JohnKuthe]

Yeah I know exactly how a transistor works. You don't have to be an engineer to figure that one out. Or even smart for that matter, ie, you. And knowing that has almost no relevance on this forum.

BS!! Transistors are THE components which amplify the electrical sound signals to drive the speakers! Without transistors we'd all still be running tube amps! DUH!!!

John Kuthe...

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

bs!! Transistors are the components which amplify the electrical sound signals to drive the speakers! Without transistors we'd all still be running tube amps! Duh!!!
John kuthe...

EVERYoNE SEES THROuGH YOUR BULLSH*T JANE. STFU

 

[JohnKuthe]

EVERYoNE SEES THROuGH YOUR BULLSH*T JANE. STFU

You DO realize you can say nothing accurately about this YUGE set you keep referring to as "everyone"?

Probably not! :-(

John Kuthe...

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

You DO realize you can say nothing accurately about this YUGE set you keep referring to as "everyone"?
Probably not! :-(

John Kuthe...

 

[Flipper245]

BS!! Transistors are THE components which amplify the electrical sound signals to drive the speakers! Without transistors we'd all still be running tube amps! DUH!!!
John Kuthe...

Yeah and when you bought your amp did you research to see what transistors they use? Probably not and most people on here probably don't either. I'm sure some do but it doesn't really matter unless you're really picky about your equipment, which you probably aren't since you used alpine.

 

[big scott]

yup.

 

[big scott]

I currently have a Mercedes E320. I changed the headunit to a double din Sony XAV-65. Iam looking to change all four door speakers to some 6.5 inch 200 RMS speakers, I will be installing a 4 channel amp to push the speakers. I would like to buy four speakers, install them, connect the four channel amp to them, but I want some good quality speakers, I do not want any speakers that sound distorted when I turn my head unit all the way up. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

its not that easy..

how do you know your h/u does not distort all the way up.

do you know how to set a amp gain ?

whats your budget??