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<blockquote data-quote="forbidden" data-source="post: 565491" data-attributes="member: 552189"><p>As nice as those Focals are, and even with the good advice that squeakmasterflash gave you, unless you are fully prepared to mount these speakers in the places that will give the best results from them (and the obvious expenditure of large coin to do so), keep it to a 2way component set. Listen to different speakers and purchase the ones your ears like. Use a minimum of 50w rms @ 4 ohms to power them, more if you are going to be upgrading to a monster sub system. For the rear speakers, a basic 5x7&quot; in the stock location is fine for fill, try to keep the speakers the same by brand for a good tone / timbre match. You don&#039;t want your ears being drawn to the back of the vehicle&nbsp; which is to easy to do in a small truck like this. Pathlengths on speakers are important in a sound competition, mind you with all the cd player starting to add time alignment this is much less of an issue now. While the ideal place to mount a tweeter for pathlengths might in fact be on the kickpanel, if you are a large dude and have another large person driving with you, it is all to easy for your legs to block the tweeters path, thus the mounting location sucks blue whale. The difference between the ideal speaker mounting location and where they are going to work best for you, well we cannot tell you this. You hear different than we do and drive a different vehicle. The last 00 Ranger we did had the MB Quart tweeters mounted up high on the sail panel, the customer was a little larger than most people (230lbs) and his foot was always right where that kick panel needed to be. In this case he chose to put the tweeter up high. End result was still really good sound.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="forbidden, post: 565491, member: 552189"] As nice as those Focals are, and even with the good advice that squeakmasterflash gave you, unless you are fully prepared to mount these speakers in the places that will give the best results from them (and the obvious expenditure of large coin to do so), keep it to a 2way component set. Listen to different speakers and purchase the ones your ears like. Use a minimum of 50w rms @ 4 ohms to power them, more if you are going to be upgrading to a monster sub system. For the rear speakers, a basic 5x7" in the stock location is fine for fill, try to keep the speakers the same by brand for a good tone / timbre match. You don't want your ears being drawn to the back of the vehicle which is to easy to do in a small truck like this. Pathlengths on speakers are important in a sound competition, mind you with all the cd player starting to add time alignment this is much less of an issue now. While the ideal place to mount a tweeter for pathlengths might in fact be on the kickpanel, if you are a large dude and have another large person driving with you, it is all to easy for your legs to block the tweeters path, thus the mounting location sucks blue whale. The difference between the ideal speaker mounting location and where they are going to work best for you, well we cannot tell you this. You hear different than we do and drive a different vehicle. The last 00 Ranger we did had the MB Quart tweeters mounted up high on the sail panel, the customer was a little larger than most people (230lbs) and his foot was always right where that kick panel needed to be. In this case he chose to put the tweeter up high. End result was still really good sound. [/QUOTE]

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