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<blockquote data-quote="mikelaubach" data-source="post: 7367452" data-attributes="member: 632557"><p>Not necessary.</p><p></p><p>As a related story, I replaced the door speakers in the wife's Audi A4 a few weekends ago (2?). The stock one in the passenger side ripped the foam surround and sounded like arse - buzzing alot. I tore it apart and checked out the mounting as the stock speakers are not standard - they have a specially designed mount setup built into the speaker. They are components though, with the tweet higher up on the door panel nearer the mirror.</p><p></p><p>I went to partsexpress and ordered a set or reference 5" speakers in 4O with 35W power handling. I KNEW they were different and would sound different, so I bought a pair. I installed one in the passenger side after dorking with cutting off the mount from the stock speaker and fitting it over the replacement without interfering with the replacement speaker's operation.</p><p></p><p>Testing revealed that the replacement was not as loud as the other stock speaker. It sounded MUCH better quality-wise, but was not as loud. Crap! Oh well, I'll just change the other one and hope for the best. Once changed, it sounded soooo much better, that the need to turn up the volume a bit more did not affect me at all. It's a rotary knob with no loudness indicator (like the numbers in many head units), so the wife would never notice that she turned it up louder or not.</p><p></p><p>In the end, they crank. I'm happy. More importantly, SHE'S happy. But then again, she admits to not having an ear for that sort of thing. I removed the passenger speaker one weekend (to take the measurements) and just put her door panel back on so she could use her car (she works out of state and drives alot), and she just turned the sound to the left all the way. I drove the car to dinner the night the speakers arrived, it drove me nuts to have sound only from the left, and she was like "Sounds fine to me." Ugh.</p><p></p><p>Moral of the long story - if you replace one, replace both sides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mikelaubach, post: 7367452, member: 632557"] Not necessary. As a related story, I replaced the door speakers in the wife's Audi A4 a few weekends ago (2?). The stock one in the passenger side ripped the foam surround and sounded like arse - buzzing alot. I tore it apart and checked out the mounting as the stock speakers are not standard - they have a specially designed mount setup built into the speaker. They are components though, with the tweet higher up on the door panel nearer the mirror. I went to partsexpress and ordered a set or reference 5" speakers in 4O with 35W power handling. I KNEW they were different and would sound different, so I bought a pair. I installed one in the passenger side after dorking with cutting off the mount from the stock speaker and fitting it over the replacement without interfering with the replacement speaker's operation. Testing revealed that the replacement was not as loud as the other stock speaker. It sounded MUCH better quality-wise, but was not as loud. Crap! Oh well, I'll just change the other one and hope for the best. Once changed, it sounded soooo much better, that the need to turn up the volume a bit more did not affect me at all. It's a rotary knob with no loudness indicator (like the numbers in many head units), so the wife would never notice that she turned it up louder or not. In the end, they crank. I'm happy. More importantly, SHE'S happy. But then again, she admits to not having an ear for that sort of thing. I removed the passenger speaker one weekend (to take the measurements) and just put her door panel back on so she could use her car (she works out of state and drives alot), and she just turned the sound to the left all the way. I drove the car to dinner the night the speakers arrived, it drove me nuts to have sound only from the left, and she was like "Sounds fine to me." Ugh. Moral of the long story - if you replace one, replace both sides. [/QUOTE]
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