Replacement speakers: what do people recommend?

[curlyks2]

Too much Guns 'n' Roses at high volume means I've blown at least one of the original speakers

Owing to a happy accident, I've now got £200 of someone elses money to spend on new speakers

So the questions to the fine folks out there are...

- What do people recommend as direct replacements for the stock front speakers?
- What do people recommend as direct replacements for the stock rear speakers?
- Are they easy to fit or is it worth spending some of that money on getting them fitted?
- Are any changes to the wiring required if fitting them myself?

Cheers,

Ck.

[Greg_S]

Front speakers I have MB Quart DKC110 which jamo recommended, got them off ebay and they sound v good. takes about 20mins to fit both.

Rears I have Blaupunkt ones which I will probably change at some point but they were more of a pain to fit.

[Jamo]

Your too kind Greg!

Not alot on ebay at the moment from orcasales in the way of MB Quart.

He is sellling these two though.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...783765083&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...783765596&rd=1

[Crawford_S2]

I got some JBL two way direct fit from a mate and they seen to work well, think he got them from halfords!!

[rotoryboy]

Your too kind Greg!

Not alot on ebay at the moment from orcasales in the way of MB Quart.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...783765083&rd=1

I have to say I run the 210's and am VERY pleased with them. They are a superb setup and the clarity is great. Go MB Quart if you can It's worth it

[Fat Audi 80]

I am running some Kenwood 1068s which I am very happy with although I have supplemented these with some Kenwood tweeters mounted in the small round air vents in the dash top....

Cheers,

Steve

[curlyks2]

I have to say I run the 210's and am VERY pleased with them. They are a superb setup and the clarity is great. Go MB Quart if you can It's worth it

Looking at the info on the 210's they are a component set? Where did you put the tweeter and where did you hide the crossover?

Cheers,

Ck.

[rotoryboy]

Yes they are matey. The crossovers are under the dash near the speakers and the tweeters are in the air vent. They literally just push fit into the same hole.

[rotoryboy]

Another view

[Greg_S]

Mark,

I have the coaxials so they are just in standard holes. the components probably sound a bit better i guess? looks nice with them installed there too. managed to keep the standard grille too

[Fat Audi 80]

Oh, forgot to add, my Kenwoods are under the standard grille too, if that's your bag...

[s2carlo]

I have two 10cm Caliber (dual cone) in the front.
Easy fit, even managed to get te Caliber covers on.
Nice wide sound spectrum even some low frequency in the crapy location.

In the rear still original speakers but using the JVC headset I turned them down.
The Caliber-sub is taking over, driven by a Caliber-amplifier! :mischeif:

[curlyks2]

Thanks folks. Looks like MB Quart is the way to go! Since I'm after keeping the original look (don't really want to attract additional tea leaf attention by having nice speakers on show), I guess 110's are looking the likely option.

I've not investigated how easy it is to replace the rear speakers - what makes it more complicated and/or time consuming?

Cheers,

Ck.

[Tommy200rs]

this probably fits under the original grille:
DKC-108 3.5" Discus Coaxials Speakers
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...sPageName=WD2V
- probably cheaper components than in the separates kit, but certainly better than originals

All www-links I found for the referenced DKC-110 were not a separate set like in above pictures ?

Do you mean these: MB Quart DSD-210 4" 2-Way Discus ?

[Greg_S]

Ive got some pictures at home from where I changed mine, the problem with doing the rear speakers is they way that they fit. The original ones twist fit onto lugs, where as mine were normal screw in types. So I cut the tabs off the speakers and bent the lugs on the oe speaker brackets to make them fit then sealed them onto it.

Took a couple of hours.