what 6x9s do you like?

[hemihotrod402]

these are what i had when i had my vic. they sound great and are really loud. they sound good with a stock head unit or with an amp. they can handle loads of power. i ran them with about 300 watts rms going to each speaker. they are kinda hard to find in a store to listen to.

http://www.volfenhagaudio.com/speaker/speak_869r.html

its a huge speaker that takes up a LOT of space. the magnet isnt just for looks lol

Holy fuck that's a speaker. lol

[1990LTD]

I liked Alpines the most in the store but they were 6 feet apart and mounted at ear height

[gadget73]

huge magnets crack me up. The whole reason for that is to get a strong magnetic field out of a poor quality magnet material, usually iron ferrite. Change that out to AlNiCo or neodymium and you can make the magnet way smaller. Tradeoff is that those materials are more expensive, and everyone knows that bigger is obviously better.

[RobertB]

For my '90 Crown Vic sedan, I have 3-way 6 1/2 inch Polks in the doors and 3-way 6x9 Polks in the rear going through an Alpine AM-FM/CD unit (no external amp). They are very smooth-sounding.

[sly]

oh yeah... the pioneer 6x9s in the 88MGM and 93vic are the 4-way buggers. They're not real bassy though which begs for some subs in the vic, but they are clean enough for me.

[gadget73]

something I just realized on my car: if the rear speakers are oddly lacking in bass, try shifting the balance full left or full right. If the bass gets better, one of the speakers is wired up backwards. If you can't figure out which one, just flip the wires on either of them and it should make thing sound better.

[marquisman]

iv always like pioneer, alpine and rockford.

[1990LTD]

I heard a set of Infinity speakers today that I fell in love with. 160 bucks though...I think they were Kappas

[351m]

High end JL, Hertz, or Pioneer speakers. Also, lose the Sony deck as the built in amps are about the worst of the aftermarket, very dirty power out of them and they tend to eat speakers for that reason.

Pioneer still makes one of the better and MUCH more adjustable decks for the money too.

[crown vic muscle]

huge magnets crack me up. The whole reason for that is to get a strong magnetic field out of a poor quality magnet material, usually iron ferrite. Change that out to AlNiCo or neodymium and you can make the magnet way smaller. Tradeoff is that those materials are more expensive, and everyone knows that bigger is obviously better.

You will get no arguments from me on this. bigger isn't always better. it was fun to stick them to the side of my tool cabinet and let them hang there lol. they sucked ass to install and i cant put them into anything else. they are huge, but handle loads of power. the ones i got were cheap, something like $50 for the set and sounded amazing when i had them in the vic hooked up to a 1200 watt amp. each speaker was getting about 300 watts RMS. It was hard to get them to distort at all. I will agree with 6x9's being an inferior speaker. Its very hard and inefficient to drive an oval cone. they tend to flex a lot at the long ends, they don't move uniformly at all.

[marquisman]

High end JL, Hertz, or Pioneer speakers. Also, lose the Sony deck as the built in amps are about the worst of the aftermarket, very dirty power out of them and they tend to eat speakers for that reason.

Pioneer still makes one of the better and MUCH more adjustable decks for the money too.

i agree. thats why i stick with pioneer products and far away from sony. they call em the "explode" for a reason lol

[hemihotrod402]

i agree. thats why i stick with pioneer products and far away from sony. they call em the "explode" for a reason lol

I will never buy a product that is named after something that could go horribly wrong with it. lol

[Smokestacklightnin]

Never have been into booming stereo, just something that sounds nice. Currently have Pioneer in the dash and Pioneer 3-way 6x9s in the rear. Were rather inexpensive and sound nice. In the doors just have some cheapo non-brand name speakers.

[1990LTD]

i agree. thats why i stick with pioneer products and far away from sony. they call em the "explode" for a reason lol

my Xplod deck has been nothing but great from day 1. The only feature I wish it had is an iPod input (not a 1/8" stereo jack, an actual proprietary iPod connector)

[351m]

Get a decent Pioneer deck, get familiar with the eqs and crossovers and you will never go back. I currently run an old Clarion, its nice but I miss the functionality of my old Premier head unit.