From: Ed.Toronto on
On Mar 19, 2:44 pm, "Mariachi" <jpgarcia...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Might want to take a look at this:http://www.soundstream.com/images/magazines/autosalon/SST6.9_shot.pdf
>
> finally, an article covering something other than subs or amps :)

I'm in the marked for 6x9 speakers. Should I follow the advice of this
article and find a pair of Soundstreams?

The Boston Acoustics 797 speakers in my car(s) sounded very good,
until the foam surround rotted out in eight or nine years. This has
happened twice. I suppose I'm unlikely to be driving a 1970s car with
6x9s in another eight or nine years, but the 797s are no longer
available anyway--I'd have to look at their SL or SX line.

The 6x9s need to provide all the bass, and a fair proportion of
midrange/high. The door speakers are probably too low, and they're
wired in parallel to the old Cobalt amp and never seem to be very
noticeable over the sound from the back (inefficient?). It's an old
Trans Am, so there's not much installation creativity going to happen--
just want to drop the speakers in and go driving.

Thanks for any input....

From: Mariachi on
I would never go by an article to go buy something... but maybe as a
guideline on what to check out. Check out a couple 6x9s that sound
interesting to you and go what sounds good to you... in the end, it
only matters on what sounds good to you. I usually stay away from
6x9s that have lower than a 93 dB sensitivity. I don't want to have
to put 50 Watts in my speaker just to hear the darn thing.

Ed.Toronto(a)gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2:44 pm, "Mariachi" <jpgarcia...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Might want to take a look at this:http://www.soundstream.com/images/magazines/autosalon/SST6.9_shot.pdf
> >
> > finally, an article covering something other than subs or amps :)
>
> I'm in the marked for 6x9 speakers. Should I follow the advice of this
> article and find a pair of Soundstreams?
>
> The Boston Acoustics 797 speakers in my car(s) sounded very good,
> until the foam surround rotted out in eight or nine years. This has
> happened twice. I suppose I'm unlikely to be driving a 1970s car with
> 6x9s in another eight or nine years, but the 797s are no longer
> available anyway--I'd have to look at their SL or SX line.
>
> The 6x9s need to provide all the bass, and a fair proportion of
> midrange/high. The door speakers are probably too low, and they're
> wired in parallel to the old Cobalt amp and never seem to be very
> noticeable over the sound from the back (inefficient?). It's an old
> Trans Am, so there's not much installation creativity going to happen--
> just want to drop the speakers in and go driving.
>
> Thanks for any input....

From: Ed.Toronto on
On Apr 30, 5:43 pm, Mariachi <jpgarcia...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would never go by an article to go buy something... but maybe as a
> guideline on what to check out. Check out a couple 6x9s that sound
> interesting to you and go what sounds good to you... in the end, it
> only matters on what sounds good to you. I usually stay away from
> 6x9s that have lower than a 93 dB sensitivity. I don't want to have
> to put 50 Watts in my speaker just to hear the darn thing.

I'm not sure how easy it is to get an idea of a car speaker's sound
without it actually being in the car. A '78 Trans Am is an unusual
shape with sloping curved backglass right over the rear deck. I spent
quite some time auditing speakers for my home system, but how to
really audition car speakers?

Specs for car speakers aren't wholly useful either.

At least I will stay away from the speakers the article describes as
"forward". I find myself running one or two notches back on the
treble anyway.

From: ricpaulhammink on
Can someone please explain what the 2 ohm speakers/components are all
about?

Since I'll be adding an amp, I was looking into replacementspeakers
for my old JBL-GTO's (6x9, 35Wrms, 105peak, only the bass remains, the
mid-highs have been replaced by new 8 ohm tweeters). I found that
Infinity features 2 ohm speakers/components now (sounds great for
better usage of available power and more headroom).

They claim to be 2 ohm and then they claim they can be driven by a
regular HU. Sounds like a contradiction in terms...

(Yes I do know a speaker has a reactive side, not just a resistive
value...but many HU get hot as it is with the supposedly 'more-than-4-
ohm-speakers', so what are they trying to accomplish???)

From: KU40 on

nothing fancy about them, just a different impedence to get more power
out of your amp as you mentioned. I don't know any head unit that is
stable to 2 ohms/channel, so I wouldn't put any of those speakers on
one. sure they are reactive, but I still wouldn't.


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KU40