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<blockquote data-quote="BnGRacing" data-source="post: 7476240" data-attributes="member: 557400">Does your Volvo have a premium sound system? Chances are it does...at least in the capacity that there&#039;s an outboard amp somewhere.With that, there&#039;s also a DSP. However rudimentary it might be, it&#039;s still doing it&#039;s thing even though you&#039;ve replaced the speakers. Factory DSPs actually compensate for phase, time, and EQ so that the music sounds the best with the cheapest/smallest audio components possible. The problem you might be having is the passive crossovers for your new speakers fighting with the signal being passed along by the DSP. If this is the case, you&#039;ll sound worse than you did before.Something else to think about; your new Alpine speakers are not so great. Cars are actually using some pretty decent woofers these days. You&#039;ll see poly &amp;amp; treated paper cones with high excursion rubber surrounds along with soft dome tweeters. Those are better materials than you find in some entry level component sets out there. Factor in the OEM DSP being a lot better than a cheapie passive network and you can have better sounding OEM speakers than you do aftermarket. The Bose system in a new Cadillac has won SQ comps with not 1 thing changed. Think about that for a bit...But you&#039;ve changed your speakers b/c you&#039;re either looking for better sound -or- they done blow&#039;d up. Which is it?From there it&#039;s best to find the speakers that will best work with the rest of the Volvo sound-system instead of buying speakers from &quot;a good brand&quot; and dropping them in hoping for better performance. But for that, we&#039;ll need to know a bit more about your car. If you have a Volvo with Dynaudio premium sound, what you&#039;ve effectively done was exchange your Rolex for a Timex.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BnGRacing, post: 7476240, member: 557400"] Does your Volvo have a premium sound system? Chances are it does...at least in the capacity that there's an outboard amp somewhere. With that, there's also a DSP. However rudimentary it might be, it's still doing it's thing even though you've replaced the speakers. Factory DSPs actually compensate for phase, time, and EQ so that the music sounds the best with the cheapest/smallest audio components possible. The problem you might be having is the passive crossovers for your new speakers fighting with the signal being passed along by the DSP. If this is the case, you'll sound worse than you did before. Something else to think about; your new Alpine speakers are not so great. Cars are actually using some pretty decent woofers these days. You'll see poly & treated paper cones with high excursion rubber surrounds along with soft dome tweeters. Those are better materials than you find in some entry level component sets out there. Factor in the OEM DSP being a lot better than a cheapie passive network and you can have better sounding OEM speakers than you do aftermarket. The Bose system in a new Cadillac has won SQ comps with not 1 thing changed. Think about that for a bit... But you've changed your speakers b/c you're either looking for better sound -or- they done blow'd up. Which is it? From there it's best to find the speakers that will best work with the rest of the Volvo sound-system instead of buying speakers from "a good brand" and dropping them in hoping for better performance. But for that, we'll need to know a bit more about your car. If you have a Volvo with Dynaudio premium sound, what you've effectively done was exchange your Rolex for a Timex. [/QUOTE]

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