Car speaker recommendations - novice

[moustachebandit]

Sadly one of the door speakers has blown in my car. Having had the door card off it appears my car got the uprated high performance speaker package, which by all accounts is supposed to be pretty good.

Now the easy option would be to just replace the speaker with a used one however they aren't very common and also seem to run a premium. So for the price of one unknown condition used speaker I could probably buy 2 brand new ones and replace the set.

Problem is I dont know what I am looking for when it comes to speakers. I never bothered with stereos in the past. But as the car has a decent set up I dont want to just chuck any old crap in.

I know I need 6.5 Inch component speaker. The car has an amp so I dont need to bother with separate cross overs or tweeters.

I have seen these

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bass-Face-SPL6M-2-Mid-Bas...

Asides from the gash name, they seem to get some good reviews. But again they maybe crap. Can anyone offer some suggestions of what I should look for?

Thanks

James

[rsbmw]

I would imagine those will be quite terrible.

What sort of music are you playing?

[vx220]

Worth checking the impedance on the back of the speaker. Some of the premium OEM setups use low impedance speakers (IIRC the BOSE in my old rx8 has 1ohm speakers?) so fitting 4ohm speakers to that would have introduced some mismatched volumes between the speakers.

Also, OEM amps are not usually hugely powerful, relying on very sensitive standard fit speakers, so fitting aftermarket speakers with higher power ratings can backfire as they will generally have a lower sensitivity.

What car is it, and what does it say on the back of the speaker itself?

[moustachebandit]

rsbmw said:

I would imagine those will be quite terrible.

What sort of music are you playing?

I literally listen to everything and I mean literally everything - I have very eclectic tastes!

vx220 said:

Worth checking the impedance on the back of the speaker. Some of the premium OEM setups use low impedance speakers (IIRC the BOSE in my old rx8 has 1ohm speakers?) so fitting 4ohm speakers to that would have introduced some mismatched volumes between the speakers.

Also, OEM amps are not usually hugely powerful, relying on very sensitive standard fit speakers, so fitting aftermarket speakers with higher power ratings can backfire as they will generally have a lower sensitivity.

What car is it, and what does it say on the back of the speaker itself?

Its a Volvo V70 - I havent taken the speaker out of the door yet as I need to drill out the rivets holding the speaker mount, so was going to hold off until I had the bits to install the new unit.

I think the rear door speakers are 4ohms - internet / owners manual seems to confirm. The amp is a 4x75 - 300 watt unit from what I have found online.

[vx220]

I think premium audio for some Volvos is Dynaudio?

In which case you're unlikely to better that (imo)

[NugentS]

Premium Audio for the 70 series is indeed Dynaudio.

I had one and upgraded the fairly crap speakers to the volvo dynaudio set almost immediately.
They were £1,000 back in 2002/2003

[moustachebandit]

From what I understood there was 3 levels - Base, High Performance & Premium. The Premium unit could then have the Dynaudio speakers added onto the package - could be wrong.

I dont have the Dynaudio speakers - mine look like these

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/231790625751