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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8744780" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>I don't think you're the oldest member around here and you haven't got me beat by all that much.</p><p></p><p>That said, buying separate components and trying to get them to sound good is what will make this complicated. A pair of bookshelf speakers you have in your living room use an 8" woofer + tweeter and sound great, but they're a woofer and tweeter designed to work well together, in that system, and blend nicely to play all frequencies smooth and flat. Buying just any old 8" woofer than a tweeter becomes complicated and may not work at all.</p><p></p><p>The point being speakers are designed around playing a certain range of frequencies. A "full range" 8 inch woofer will play from 30hz up to 3000 while a subwoofer will generally perform poorly up above 300-400hz. So you'll have drums, bass guitar, and very low end of male vocals but nothing in between that and cymbals and guitar solos. You can generally add subwoofer(s) to just about anything and it'll sound OK but adding tweeters (on an amp) will very probably be over-powering and not sound very balanced.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, if you want to just add some treble to your factory speakers you can just T-tap a set like this (with built in crossover) to your front door speakers <a href="https://www.parts-express.com/HiVi-CT26A-26mm-Aluminum-Automotive-Tweeter-Pair-267-8106" target="_blank">https://www.parts-express.com/HiVi-CT26A-26mm-Aluminum-Automotive-Tweeter-Pair-267-8106</a></p><p></p><p>and if you want some bass, just grab a one-and-done powered subwoofer from a reputable company like Kicker, Pioneer, JBL/Infinity, Kenwood, etc. </p><p></p><p>For mids+highs upgrade just use Crutchfield site and figure out what size the factory speakers are and replace them with some components or coaxials in the 125-180$ a set range from a reputable company.</p><p> </p><p>Either way, you could probably slap those subs in a simple sealed box, throw a couple hundred watts at them and be happy, not so sure about integrating those tweeters nicely though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8744780, member: 614752"] I don't think you're the oldest member around here and you haven't got me beat by all that much. That said, buying separate components and trying to get them to sound good is what will make this complicated. A pair of bookshelf speakers you have in your living room use an 8" woofer + tweeter and sound great, but they're a woofer and tweeter designed to work well together, in that system, and blend nicely to play all frequencies smooth and flat. Buying just any old 8" woofer than a tweeter becomes complicated and may not work at all. The point being speakers are designed around playing a certain range of frequencies. A "full range" 8 inch woofer will play from 30hz up to 3000 while a subwoofer will generally perform poorly up above 300-400hz. So you'll have drums, bass guitar, and very low end of male vocals but nothing in between that and cymbals and guitar solos. You can generally add subwoofer(s) to just about anything and it'll sound OK but adding tweeters (on an amp) will very probably be over-powering and not sound very balanced. Mind you, if you want to just add some treble to your factory speakers you can just T-tap a set like this (with built in crossover) to your front door speakers [URL]https://www.parts-express.com/HiVi-CT26A-26mm-Aluminum-Automotive-Tweeter-Pair-267-8106[/URL] and if you want some bass, just grab a one-and-done powered subwoofer from a reputable company like Kicker, Pioneer, JBL/Infinity, Kenwood, etc. For mids+highs upgrade just use Crutchfield site and figure out what size the factory speakers are and replace them with some components or coaxials in the 125-180$ a set range from a reputable company. Either way, you could probably slap those subs in a simple sealed box, throw a couple hundred watts at them and be happy, not so sure about integrating those tweeters nicely though. [/QUOTE]
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