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Posted: Fri Jun 15th, 2018 03:56 pm

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I'm curious as to what the perceived value and amount of volume difference is over a 6x9 vs the stock 5x7 size. Granted more cone surface area = more volume but when your just looking at a set if 4 6x9's at a max of 14w a channel vs four 12" woofers at say even the same wattage, frequency wilk also play a part i n that. . there's a dramatic difference in output. Especially considering an oblong or oval speaker usually beats itself up which is why GM had such a difficult time with 4x6 and 4x10 speaker applications in many of their cars. The whole purpose of the 5x7 or 6x9 was to compensate for the lack of mid bass and bass coming from the very anemic 3.5" dash speakers, at times 4" and eventually 6" door speakers.

Outside of the generalized grief of proper installation and fitment issues [putting a square peg in a round hole if you will] I would suspect minimal at best.

Until the advent thought of putting subwoofers in cars from the manufacturer level trying to get in on the now at that time 12 years of a huge upwards trend, "car audio", this is how manufacturing compensated to improve sound quality. Then they learned about staging and imaging which some cars still just don't do well regardless.

The biggest issues we all face and have in our trucks and sadly us standard cabs are even worse is the standing waves the interior creates and the windshield being the way it is from top to bottom and side to side. If you really wanna take it to the next level in sound Q compared to stock, even a set of basic tweeters properly placed as an add on to the front speakers makes a dramatic change. The plethora of big box store, and I'm sorry but the aftermarket is totally flooded with junk now a days, even the big brands aren't what they used to be. Alpine might be somewhere near the top end, kenwiod, pioneer.. but none of them make stuff like they did 20 years ago. It's almost all Mattel my first stereo and they razzle dazzle people with lights and aux features but they continue to take away the quality components that made a head unit a good headunit. FACT

I think for shits and giggles since there's a grip of techno weenies abroad here. When I collect my old 21 yr old head unit from back in the day. There's no opportunity for warranty so I'm sure I can dismiss the yellow do not remove tag and I'd like to take it and open it up and take some detailed pics of the components, the board, the circuitry, processors and what not and compare it to any if the newer Casio watch like units of today.

I think even with things being cheaper today, the build quality isn't what it should be. And before anyone gets the wrong idea that I'm just bragging or boasting about how much I can/have spent.. not the case. My arguments are based upon perception of quality and what the value of dollars gets you.. also taking into grave consideration that... everyone hears something different.. or not [sorry Tsquare] ;)

Last edited on Fri Jun 15th, 2018 03:59 pm by Undrstm8ed

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