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rod7515

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I am going to be using the front speaker adaptor that one of the members here make for the early A-body frt dash. I bought some cheap 3.5 speakers but they are junk. Was wondering is there a good speaker that dont break the bank. I dont have to have opera sound just noise I will be able to hear and make out. Looking to spend about $50 or less. Suggestions?
Thanks Rod
 
Look on the Crutchfield site. Their customer service cannot be beat.
 
I used some Kicker KS speakers with my dash adapter. Your never going to really get any good sound out of the 3.5s in the middle. Now some 6x9s in the rear deck.....
 
I got a new in the box set of Profile 6x9 2 ways given to me, gonna mount them under the rear deck hook up a moderately powered amp and run an aux lead to the front and use my phone for tunes. The AM radio still works so I wont put speakers in the front.
 
I put speakers under buckets seats of my 65 ragtop Signet- out of sight- gives you a cool buzz- like a massage....
 
I have very expensive MB Quart speakers in my adapter and to be perfectly honest, you're not going to get great sound out of the dash with the speakers firing directly at the glass. Also, be sure to put some type of capacitor on the positive leads to block the bass out of them. They aren't designed to be reproducing pounding bass.
 
Many choices here. www.parts-express.com
I put dual four inchers in my Barracuda and Valiant. I even found room to mount small tweeters in the Valiant with the crossovers sitting on a bracket on the radio. The Barracuda has coaxial two-way Boston Acoustics. Both cars sound good and have surprising stereo separation bouncing off the windshield. Not great, but better than you would expect from speakers so close to each other. As BrianT mentioned, if you do it you can prevent over driving the small speakers by mounting a filter capacitor. It keeps the small speakers from trying to create too deep of frequency and buzzing or popping due to lack of control...maybe even burning up the driver coils.
496 MFD blocks below 80Hz @ 4 Ohms
398 MFD blocks below 100 Hz @ 4 ohms
330 MFD blocks below 120 Hz@ 4 ohms
This is an approximation so capacitor values can be slightly different.
You can hide some 6" or lager subs somewhere else in the car if you really need the bass of a larger driver.
 
Im putting these in a 66 Dart and I purchased the adapter to change the stock factory front speaker to dual 3.5" speakers. As for the rear deck speakers I am going to have to do something differnet back there as well since my roll bar goes thru those holes and I had to completely close off the rear trunk because of the battery in the trunk. The reason I ask about a better speaker was I hooked up the ones I bought to another radio by themselves and they sound awful. Im not worried about great sound since I will be running dual exhaust with very loud 3" exhaust. Might not even be able to hear a radio no matter what speakers are in!
But thanks for all the recommendations.
Rod
 
Infinity Kappa. Put the power to them and let them sing!

6X9 rear deck
6 rounds in the door.
Screw the center speakers.

Power with a min. 100 X 2 RMS amp of QUALITY !!!
 
I have very expensive MB Quart speakers in my adapter and to be perfectly honest, you're not going to get great sound out of the dash with the speakers firing directly at the glass. Also, be sure to put some type of capacitor on the positive leads to block the bass out of them. They aren't designed to be reproducing pounding bass.

This is why I bought the reproduction kick panels with speakers in them.
 
By "hooked up the ones I bought to another radio by themselves and they sound awful" do you mean you hooked them up and they were just sitting on a work bench or on the floor or something? Speakers need to be mounted to a panel, preferably some sort of enclosure, be it a box, trunk, door panel, or something. Different size enclosures will vary the bass response, but just setting open will sound awful on any speaker. The positive pressure wave of one side of the speaker is canceled by the negative wave of the opposite side, unless you isolate them.
 
Staying around your budget of $50 I'd suggest Kicker 41DSC693 6x9's.

I think that will get you the best bang for your buck. We put a set in my cousins Ranger and they worked well. You won't get near the sound with 3.5" speakers. Just do the 6x9's, they're great all around.
 
speakers - I don't need no stinkin' speakers.. exhaust tunes is music to my ears.. (of course I don't have a radio so...)
 
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