I've just bought some speakers for my new car - 6x9" and front 4" speakers but the back ones dont handle the bass so condsidering wiring in a sub woofer. Do i have to buy an aplifier! or can you just have a sub. I'm assuming the sub takes the pressure out of the 6x9"s, is this correct! p.s - not a boy/girl racer - just appreciate my sounds : )
leighfrancesca,
Aug 23, 5:58pm
Have you considered putting a set of decent component speakers up front!
morrisman1,
Aug 23, 6:03pm
+1
The only reason I can think of putting a subwoofer in is for the doof doof doof. You are better off putting in some good speakers
studio1,
Aug 23, 6:03pm
The sub will only 'take the pressure out of the 6 x 9s' if you use an active filter to feed the amp that drives the 6 x 9s - to remove low frequencies. ANY speaker is going to need an amp to drive it, especially a sub, and many amps have low-pass filters to send ONLY low frequencies to the sub (as that's all you want it to reproduce). As poster above suggests, you should look at component speakers for the front, and in the back use something similar fed by an active crossover.
74nova,
Aug 23, 6:14pm
A more simpler answer, component speakers (separate woofer and tweeter, put the woofer in the front doors and tweeter up on the dash - the most easiest place to put them) and something like a 100W 4 channel amp and a 10-12" sub in a box in the boot. Use two channels on the amp to run the front speakers and bridge the other two channels on the amp to run the sub.
milkybar4,
Aug 23, 6:31pm
whoa dont understand this but my car that i'm selling has mint sounds and thought i could semi reproduce in my new car. not so - well not on my budget. I will look into my options. the other car's got tweeters and all of that, dont know bout subs but whatever the speakers are they handle the bass way better that ones i bought. thanks for advice guys : )
74nova,
Aug 23, 6:36pm
What was your old car and whats your new car!
milkybar4,
Aug 23, 7:10pm
old one ( one listed ) is nissan ceffiro, new one is toyota starlet.
pc_evo,
Aug 23, 7:54pm
Amp your 6X9's, set a pass frequency, you'll be amazed how much a decent headunit (i prefer pioneer) and amp will do to a set of half decent speakers. Components will go good, if you got no sound deadning in the doors though, you may as well not bother. Just amp all the speakers, but be careful setting the gain, even small 4 channel amps do lots :)
74nova,
Aug 24, 4:53am
Well there's your answer.
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