My speakers have blown in my widetrack scoob and I'm looking for an aftermarket replacement. Does anyone have any idea what would be the limit of amps I could run? Trying to avoid buying an aftermarket amp.

 

How do you mean the Limit of what Amps you can run ?

 

Oh dear. You limit for distortion is the car's stereo. It's internal AMP will give clean sound to about 2/3 of the volume then begins to distort. The standard speakers on a Subaru are utter ****. You should look to get a 3-4 hole conversion, MDF panels that allow normal speakers to fit. Then you'll find ANY aftermarket cheapo speaker will be better than what you have. I fitted a set of co-axial Hertz speakers in the rear doors and a set of Hertz speakers and crossover unit in the front doors, sticking the crossover at the rear behind the door handle bracket.

The car's O.E. wires into the doors are fine for the car's O.E. crappy stereo. In mine I ran really thick speaker cable from each door to the AMP I fitted under the driver's seat. Thee's an 8" Sub under the passenger's seat. All nice and neat on two steel platforms on 8mm studs set into nuts welded to the floor. I have a double DIN Alpine touchscreen with Apple Carplay as the AAC is lossless and give s the best sound and the whole car is sound proofed with knock off Dyna Matt stuff.

You don't need to go to town, but the speakers are by far the worst part of the O.E. car's ICE. I suspect Subaru believe the Exhaust and Turbo whine is part of the ICE too so never bothered with anything else....

 

From my experience of Scooby OEM ICE, the factory headunits are by far the weakest link. Depends what model you have fitted but all of the ones I have seen have such paltry low RMS output that they can't even drive the stock speakers. In that instance, changing the HU and keeping the stock speakers will be much more of an improvement than changing the speakers and keeping the OEM HU.

 

I had a Spec D that had a Pioneer single DIN unit. The Speakers were trashed pretty quickly.... Neither parts were up to much having had the O.E. Double DIN unit on the previous car.
For a reasonable outlay, you can have a much better experience..

 

They're both certainly pretty poor. But a speaker can only be as good as the signal you feed it. Installing £4ks worth of Morel Supremo speakers isn't going to improve the sound is you are still feeding them a crappy weak signal from the HU. But the stock speakers will sound better if you feed them a clean, powerful signal.

Similarly, having a £10k, multi-amp, multi-speaker system is still going to sound **** if you play 128kbps MP3s.

 

...which is why I play AAC music from the phone.