4 speakers vs 8 speakers

[goku87]

Originally Posted by talnlnky

I don't have to... you already know it, Plus... they do have a point, they stimulate the economy by ensuring money transfers hands quicker than needed.

New lesson... the volume won't get much louder, but you'll pay twice as much... it'll actually even worsen basically every aspect of sound quality. Just buy better speakers instead... Go with some high end drivers and make your own component setup and then just go active on the crossovers.

alaska not being a prime spot for audio, we are limited to 3 stores that sell car audio stuff, aside from best buy and walmart lol. needless to say, selection is limited. so, if you had unlimited funds, what kind of speakers would you buy, and why?

[talnlnky]

Originally Posted by goku87

alaska not being a prime spot for audio, we are limited to 3 stores that sell car audio stuff, aside from best buy and walmart lol. needless to say, selection is limited. so, if you had unlimited funds, what kind of speakers would you buy, and why?

I would pay to have some components specially made. I would want something like a 7" driver with around 12mm 1way linear x-max with a super low inductance (Le), a 4-5" speaker to play the mids, and a small tweet for the highs. And the install would be where 70% of the money would be spent... I'd have the midbass and mid installed in the doors, but in ported boxes... would require a crazy amount of fiberglass skill to do properly... but would be SOOOOO incredibly worth it in the long run.

if there actually was a budget .... I'd probably end up with take my drivers (individual speakers) from companies like Seas, Scan Speak, Morel, and then run an active setup... each speaker gets its own amp channel.

My current set of gear is pretty darn good, better than just about any component setup you could find in stores... and it wasn't that expensive.... $150 for midbasses, $100 for my mids, $30 for the tweets. the crossover will add some costs ($50) and then there are the amps $250 (used), deck $160 (used, retail was $1500), 30band stereo eq's $175 (used), Active X-over $45 (used and broken, had to solder a spot to fix it). Buying used gear can save a lot of money, though you have to make sure that the stuff was taken well care of. All my equipment, including 00awg cable and rca's was less than $1000, but if you were to buy similar quality gear in a shop, you'd pay probably 3,000 - 4,000 just for the parts.

Only once have I bought a speaker from a brick and mortar shop... and that was an $800 eclipse sub back in 01. You can get a lot of great stuff for much less if you look around... Small companies aimed at the DIY crowd usually have some of the best designed subs on the market, tho, many of those companies go through times of hardship when they start to grow too fast so you have to be careful.

The best sub I've ever used/owned hands down was only $370 and was from a little company in Seattle... unfortunately they went out of business because they tried to grow too fast a few years back.