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<blockquote data-quote="eharri3" data-source="post: 4968259" data-attributes="member: 591579">Fit midbasses up front somehow or do 3 way comps. If you&#039;re missing a frequency range, downgrading to speakers that aren&#039;t designed to do an excellent job producing any one specific type of sound isn&#039;t going to help overall. Also realize, stock head units are designed to work with stock speakers to produce low frequencies at high volume in a way that you won&#039;t blow speakers.&quot;piggyback offa bterz&#039;s thread, i was wondering if anybody has tried using a coax, tweeter and crossover for their front-stage. i mean i see alotta ppl asking why stock speakers seem to get louder and dip lower on stock HU power as oppsed to aftermarket comps and an amp giving them 100watts per side on up.&quot;As I said in another thread about the very issue of low bass from aftermarket comps vs. stock coaxes, I drive a 6 year old Tahoe with a base tape-deck/4 speaker system in it for work. My personal vehicle is an 04 Dakota Quad Cap with Eclipse SC 8362 up front, infinity reference coaxes out back, Soundstream 2 channel powering a pioneer premier shallowmount 10, and an Eclipse EA4200 powering the door speakers. All run by an Alpine CDA 9883.Like most factory system the Tahoe&#039;s is tuned to give low bass from the door speakers cause there&#039;s no sub in the picture so those door speakers have to do everything. And yes, if you just compare the bass coming from those front speakers to the bass coming from my 6.5 front comps, the Tahoe wins every time in terms of how low those speakers go. Now that I&#039;ve tuned my system for the proper blend between the 10 in the rear and the midbass/midrange from the front comps,&nbsp; when I sit in the driver&#039;s seat of my own truck and close my eyes I feel a lifelike, realistic bass coming from in front of me and and mostly cannot pinpoint it as coming from the rear. If there is any rearward soundstage instability I know it&#039;s because I don&#039;t have midbass drivers. The Tahoe&#039;s front speakers go lower by themselves than my 6.5 comps do but the bass is muddy and artificial and don&#039;t measure up to the overall bass created by the blending of my front midranges and my 10 inch sub.In other words... stop being cheap and figure out how to incorportate speakers designed to make the sound you want to hear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eharri3, post: 4968259, member: 591579"] Fit midbasses up front somehow or do 3 way comps. If you're missing a frequency range, downgrading to speakers that aren't designed to do an excellent job producing any one specific type of sound isn't going to help overall. Also realize, stock head units are designed to work with stock speakers to produce low frequencies at high volume in a way that you won't blow speakers. [I]"piggyback offa bterz's thread, i was wondering if anybody has tried using a coax, tweeter and crossover for their front-stage. i mean i see alotta ppl asking why stock speakers seem to get louder and dip lower on stock HU power as oppsed to aftermarket comps and an amp giving them 100watts per side on up."[/I] As I said in another thread about the very issue of low bass from aftermarket comps vs. stock coaxes, I drive a 6 year old Tahoe with a base tape-deck/4 speaker system in it for work. My personal vehicle is an 04 Dakota Quad Cap with Eclipse SC 8362 up front, infinity reference coaxes out back, Soundstream 2 channel powering a pioneer premier shallowmount 10, and an Eclipse EA4200 powering the door speakers. All run by an Alpine CDA 9883. Like most factory system the Tahoe's is tuned to give low bass from the door speakers cause there's no sub in the picture so those door speakers have to do everything. And yes, if you just compare the bass coming from those front speakers to the bass coming from my 6.5 front comps, the Tahoe wins every time in terms of how low those speakers go. Now that I've tuned my system for the proper blend between the 10 in the rear and the midbass/midrange from the front comps, when I sit in the driver's seat of my own truck and close my eyes I feel a lifelike, realistic bass coming from in front of me and and mostly cannot pinpoint it as coming from the rear. If there is any rearward soundstage instability I know it's because I don't have midbass drivers. The Tahoe's front speakers go lower by themselves than my 6.5 comps do but the bass is muddy and artificial and don't measure up to the overall bass created by the blending of my front midranges and my 10 inch sub. In other words... stop being cheap and figure out how to incorportate speakers designed to make the sound you want to hear. [/QUOTE]

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