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Old Mar 26, 2003 | 07:03 AM
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Anyone got any recomendations as to what to put in the front doors of MY97 to replace the standard speakers..

I've got a kenwood Cd head unit and would like to just run them off of that for the time being..

Dont wanna spend more than about £70 really..
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Old Mar 26, 2003 | 08:05 AM
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Stretch to around the £100 and go for some Infinitys well worth the extra.
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Old Mar 26, 2003 | 10:55 AM
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what size, model number etc??
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Old Mar 29, 2003 | 06:36 PM
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they're 17cm at the front and u could buy some nice sony explodes
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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 04:01 AM
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I've had sony speakers in the past and they sound crap, want something that will sound mice off the head unit..
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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 07:27 AM
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Sony in my opinion are very poor quality in the Car Audio sector ... there are better brands (again in my opinion) out there
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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 06:49 PM
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so what shall I put in the front doors then, the standard ones are sounding crap..
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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 08:32 PM
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If you cans tretch to Focal Access (£120) this is a good option

Or some Alpine components these are usually on bargain in the back of most car mags
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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 09:59 PM
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Focals are luuverly...b*st*rds to fit tho
I gave up in the end and fitted Infinity's in the front and Fosgates on the rear shelf...fcukin awesome innit Kaz
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Old Apr 1, 2003 | 05:41 AM
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which infinity's then? any idea what model number, and what sort of price, are they a direct replacment cos I cant be arsed with messing about...

cheers
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Old Apr 1, 2003 | 08:38 PM
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Ali Scott,
I'm fortunate to have two cars. Mine is a UK300 and the wife's is Nissan Micra. Nissan do two fantastic speaker pods for the rear shelf and we put 5" Sony Xplods in there, running from a Sony MD unit. The sound is really good, clear with good bass. Not earth-shattering but enough clean with no overhang - notes stop and start as they should. Did you have a bad batch of speakers?

I know what hi fi should sound like - my home system is Linn-based and cost £5000 and the Sony's sound great in their environment. The fronts will be replaced at the next service (we have a good dealer who will replace the 'loose' Nissan crap originals with Sony's with no labour charge - they have to take the inner door off anyway !!)
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Old Apr 2, 2003 | 08:35 AM
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BF they are brill

loud and bassy

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Old Apr 3, 2003 | 07:19 PM
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fitted focals in my98 had 2 mess around cutting mdf spacers but definitley worth it in the end
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 05:52 AM
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Went for the cheap and easy option in the end and bought Pioneer TS-G1746, only £44 and sound alot better than the standard jobs..
Gonna concentrate now on getting my amps and Sub-box in the back, might upgrade to some components in the front later on in the year..

Cheers to everyone for your advise!!
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Old Jul 6, 2003 | 04:20 PM
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Hi Ali

I had the same question as your original post. Although I am still using the original head unit.

Were the Pioneer speakers that you chose in the end direct replacements? No modifying of anything?

Thanks for any help.

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Old Jul 8, 2003 | 10:48 PM
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Brett C,


No the ones I got were a pain in the *** and I had to **** around loads to get them to fit..
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Old Jul 11, 2003 | 09:44 AM
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Thanks Ali.

Brett
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