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General => Car audio => Topic started by: peaky83 on 22 November 2007, 14:24

Title: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: peaky83 on 22 November 2007, 14:24

Which should i get and what is the difference? apart from the tweeter being centrally mounted...

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Uruk Hai on 22 November 2007, 17:43

I would get components and then put the tweeters in the dash pods (if it has any, what car is it ?) it will sound far better than just haveing coaxial speakers in the doors, more work to fit them but well worth it  :smiley:

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: peaky83 on 22 November 2007, 18:07

GTi mk2 8v 1991 whats the difference between the 2?

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Godzilla on 22 November 2007, 21:09

Components all the way mate.

Co-ax's are ok but if your putting them in your MK2 Golf then the speaker will live in the door thus all the sound from will be in effect hitting your leg, the spectrum is nowhere near as broad as a comp', not as in frequency responce as in the way the sound hits you.
With comp's you can alter the sound with the position of the tweeter. The dash grills are are a good place for the tweets to live as they sound good there and also hidden. I placed my Phoneix Gold tweets at the top of my A pillars running off my Rockford Punch amp, sounded fantastic and got a few comments.

Where abouts are you from mate as I will me more than happy to help you with an install  :smiley:

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Dec on 22 November 2007, 21:41

So putting tweeters in the mk2 dash is better than putting better 3.5" in there?

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Godzilla on 23 November 2007, 04:14

Indeed!

The 3.5's are ok but deliver a high mid/tweet sound due to there size and location. A tweeter from a comp' set will give a much sharper sound.

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Dec on 23 November 2007, 07:30

awesome thanks :smiley:

Title: Re: 5.25" Coaxal speakers or 5.25" Components?
Post by: Uruk Hai on 24 November 2007, 12:38

You could go for something like this :-

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/alpine-spr13s-p-5659.html?cadid=c2c699565eb000a38c33b3e90d427a66

or this :-

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/alpine-sxe1350s-p-2987.html?cadid=c2c699565eb000a38c33b3e90d427a66