Why are 6x9 speakers bad

It's a matter of how much air a speaker can shovel If the excursion or "stroke" were the same in all cases, the twin 6. The narrower sides of the cone are considered stiffer than the long ends, resulting in wave distortion as the long ends bend instead of keeping up with the middle of the cone.

The only reason 6x9 speakers and 5x7, 6x8, 4x6, and 4x10 speakers ever existed was because carmakers punched the holes to specifically accomodate their own oval speakers. So if you want a speedy install into a pre-punched 6x9 opening, then a 6x9 is the answer. Remember, it's 'cause stock sucks, so don't feel you need to follow a carmaker's bad example. Re: Why NOT to buy 6x9 and 4x6 speakers. Thank you. I cant wait to get my new alpine type s 4x6 and type r 6x9s put in Good thinking.

No reason to listen to anyone that knows what they are doing. For me anyways, this begs a question. If you're concerned enough with bass output that you're willing to modify your stock mounting to use a round speaker instead, is it not also likely you could have redirected your attention to finding a place to mount some kind of standalone subwoofer?

I realize some installations don't offer the extra space, and don't get me wrong -- I went with 6. I suppose I could have used something other than 6x9's in the rear, but I didn't think it was necessary when they were about a foot away from a pair of 12" subs. This allowed taking advantage of the longer width side to side rather than the shorter back to front panel measurements. The overall measurements vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and can be slightly different for both the outside measurements and the cutout size too.

You might not have realized it, but when it comes to speakers at least, size does matter! It matters a LOT, in fact. This means for you more volume and especially more bass sound. Just like any other type of speaker 6. For example, a 1-way speaker has a more limited range and is a poor performer overall.

These can produce sound in the range of somewhere around 60Hz to 20Khz and even higher. However, 6x9s, as I mentioned earlier, are some of the best speakers for bass for full-range music. Some can perform to below 60hz and still produce good bass levels. To make a long story short, the best answer is that it depends. For example , most car stereo units, despite the misleading advertising they have, can provide only about watts RMS per channel at the most.

Other point is, keep your ICE modest, and chances are, no one will break your window and leg it with it. Drive around your local area putting out enough bass that people can feel it, and every stoner in your area will know your car's worth breaking into. I have an MK1, no rattles of vibrations around the car, but the engine revs like a mofo cc. Basicly I was a car audio fitter for just over a year and if they are set up propperly they can sound sweet!

So how would you reccomend getting a fair-to-good quality of sound in a car with serious budgets in terms of money and space? Yeti, if youre looking for ice drop me a PM with you are budget.. That is funny. I hate the way every forum I go on, everyone slates 6x9's for no real reason - at all. Ok, subwoofers occupy the bootspace and displace the air within it. But, by no means can a 12" subwoofer displace the 10cuF within the boot.

The air displaced by the subwoofer will, if anything, aid the woofer cone of the 6x9. When the sub thrusts out, so does the 6x9, unless you are a retard and wired them out of phase. Plus the fact, the "comps" that you praise so highly are the same as 6x9s.

The woofer from a 6x9 can quite nicely fill that gap whilst adding to the SQ. Don't even start me on imaging and soundstage! By having comps up front and a sub in the boot, ALL the sound is in the front of the car, completely unbalanced causing a horrible empty sound. To fully fill the car with sound and create a soundstage, speakers should be equally mounted across the car. If you don't have tweeters up front and install 6x9s, it will drag the sound to the back, but the same rules would apply even if you installed a pair of tweeters into the rear shelf.

A good quality head unit is all that makes the difference in a sound system. You can use the best quality amps in the world, but if the line source is crap, it will amplify crap and it will sound crap. They also make for a nice replacement for those who would like to keep boot space. You don't need a boot full of subs to get bass. Without going nuts into frequency thresholds and crossover types, you can set up a nice system with a pair of comps up from, 6x9s in the back and a sub in the boot.

Further to this, by your analogy when a sub moves forward , even though the 6x9s are moving forward at the same time, it wont be by the same distance, nor will it be for the same period of time due to them reproducing different different frequencies. The problem would then be extended with 6x9s reaching their peak excursion and the added pressure from the sub STILL pushing on the 6x9 cone.

Again incorrect. The "gap" as you describe does not take into account the overlap between the two that is made up by the slope on the crossover. Even after all this have you never heard of midbass units???!!! Horses for courses. My ear point forward and therefore pick up natural sound in front of me.

We pick up sound on a stereo basis on this judge distance and location- which is the reason a home audiophile system has two speakers equidistant from the listener, with the listeners position at the top of a equalateral triangle. By the sound of things pardon the pun you do not actually LIKE the sound of a realistic soundstage, you prefer to be enveloped in the sound with it coming from all around you.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as it is your personal preference. My Focal K2P's or what ever there called kick the bum of anything I have heard so far.

When I have listened to my mates quid components from Halfords and then listen to my Focals the sound difference is totally different you really can hear the quality.

I just want to say, I don't want to piss you guys off, but I'm trying to help out people who want to kit themselves up with reasonable sound for a decent price. The comments weren't directed at audio freaks but the majority of car users who want the best sound for the cheapest possible price.

Exactly, it is dependant on the subwoofer and power to it. And if you had the money and sense to afford a decent quality subwoofer and amp - why would you be even thinking about getting 6x9s anyway. BUT if you had the money to go out and buy a top notch set of comps. With a decent crossover, you want to be looking at a dB drop, having a 6dB per octave drop just encourages poor sound quality at higher volumes where the speaker is attempting to reproduce frequencies out of its range.

Overlapping the crossover frequencies is bad practice and will cause a higher volume at the given frequency where the speakers overlap causing a horrible uneven sound. I'm not talking about setting up the car for competitions! With a small hatch, your problem is - and again, I'm going to describe the people this article was aimed at in the beggining - trying to create a nice balanced sound. The majority of cars have speakers mounted in the door, at foot height. We pick up sound on a 3d basis.

The human ear can pinpoint the location of sound, be it up, down, left or right. And you might find that a lot of musical tracks are encoded in a quadraphonic format, so by having your individual 4 channels - you actually benefit from having rear speakers.

This is down to preference mate, I won't bother arguing. I stripped them down to replace the MoSFETs and a few of the IC's that had burnt out, and guess what - nooooooo, they were exactly the same components used inside, everything down to the PCB. Consumers are stupid for believing that branded higher price stuff is better than your budget Korean knock off. If you were even reading this article 6x9's and why to AVOID them in the first place, it would be because you have no idea about sound systems and would like some basic help.

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