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Offline WilSurf

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Speakers for car stereo
« on: July 03, 2019, 11:37:11 AM »
After driving the Jimny for a few days, I have to replace the standard speakers.
They are horrible.
Now Supercheap has a sale coming up with 25% off so I was thinking to get one of those 4".
Are there any bad systems?
They sell Sony, Vibe, Pioneer, JVC, Kenwood, all for roughly the same price.

I don't want the doof doof thing going on, but the current speakers (especially the drivers side) are not doing a good job.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2019, 11:53:24 AM »
I think that if you head off to supercheap you can actually try the speakers before buying. Take along some music you like on a cd/usb stick and listen /try out several sets of speakers.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2019, 11:58:15 AM »
Do you want them to replace the originals (same size and behind the door cards)...
that changes things.
or if you dont care, skys the limit :)

Bought a Kenwood headunit and some alpine speakers for Cammo's commodore on weekend... sounds great so far.

Good quality music is the most important thing.. Shit quality MP3's etc wont sound good on any set of speakers.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2019, 01:02:48 PM »
Just replace the standard ones in the front doors.
Might be adding 2 in the rear later, however that means stripping everything in the rear to get to it.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2019, 01:59:40 PM »
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Just replace the standard ones in the front doors.Might be adding 2 in the rear later, however that means stripping everything in the rear to get to it.
Take one out and take it with you to the shop, so you get the depth and diameter sorted first time :)
Then as someone stated, take a CD/USB/etc with you of the music you actually listen to - not their test music...

Autobarn also sell Alpine stuff... Any of them will do, but some will be a waste of $ with standard headunit.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2019, 02:21:53 PM »
The head unit will be half the issue, also anything 4” will always be below par aim for 6” if possible and if your keeping thenfactory hesd unit nothing too high powered as the factory head unit won’t push them well either
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Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2019, 07:25:41 AM »
You can squeeze 4.5” in the fronts of the Jimny and 6” in the rear.
The rear is easy to strip down, couple of bolts on the seats and seat belts, the rest just unclips.

I put Sonys in my Jimny only because they were on sale.
I used an eBay head unit with gps, DVD player and a whole bunch of other fancy, but useless features. The gps was actually pretty good, the 3D style display was cool when off roading in really hilly terrain and it had heaps of tracks on it.

Unfortunately I was a photobucket victim, I had tones of photos from when I did the install and would have happily sheared them with you, but it’s all gone.
I’ll see if I can find a couple of pics on an old hard drive and upload them here for you.
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Re: Speakers for car stereo
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2019, 06:43:28 PM »
Replaced the standard speakers with Kenwood.
Easy and definitely a difference even with the stock radio.

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