911 door speakers

[dave egan]

Does anyone know of , where I might obtain some high quality door speakers for my 1988 911 Turbo coupe? I would really like the speakers to be a "direct bolt-in" deal , as I don't want to chop up the door panels or anything along those lines. Mine has the two round speakers per door , one large , one smaller. I would also hopefully like to re-use the factory speaker grills. I din't see any door speakers offered on the Pelican site? , thanks for any advice.

[87coupe]

What's your budget?

[tonypeoni]

JL audio and Boston acoustics makes very high qauilty speakers in the sizes you need.

[87coupe]

While we are on the subject, does anyone know what speakers fit behind those stock square grills that came on the cars with the single 2-way speaker in the door?

Just noticed you also asked where ... crutchfield.com is a good safe place to shop online for car audio.

[Icemaster]

Picked up a solid set from Crutchfield, excellant web shopping. Plug in your yr/make/model and they'll tell you what fits.

[danl]

I have JL audio 5" 2 way mounted behind the original cover. Looks stock, sounds hot.

I fashioned a mounting bracket out of plastic - plastic screws to original holes, speakers screw to plastic.

[yngwie1]

I have 5.25" kenwoods in the doors and 4" kenwood component speakers in the rear side panels. It sounded fine for mids and highs, but terrible, non-existant bass. I added a Kenwood SW1 powered sub under the passenger seat yesterday and it sounds like a completely different system. Awesome sound now. To me, without that you'll still be missing something. Now, the new Donald Fagen CD sounds awesome. :-) I have checked Crutchfield plenty, but this sub was $249 there, but on www.techronics.com I got it for ~$150. You might check there too. I never ordered from them before, but this transaction was smooth.

[SP2]

yngwie1,

Can you tell us how you installed the subwoofer? I am interested in doing this. 150$ sounds like a good deal to get good sound.

Thanks,

[KFC911]

Originally posted by SP2
.... 150$ sounds like a good deal to get good sound.

Thanks,

I agree....I paid a lot more for that for my sport muffler and euro premuffler...but oh, the sound...stereo has since been removed

[Elu]

Kenwoods in door panels and a subwoofer under the drivers seat because I have an amp under the passenger seat. It sounds sooooooooo good.

[911S Targa]

Elu.

On your sub woofer, is it the KSC-SW1 Powered Sub ? If so, what are you using your amp under your passenger seat for ? Your door speakers ? If so, doesn't the head unit produce enough power ?

Others,

I'm running a high powered Sony Xplod deck in the car. Which speakers should I use for the doors ? Can you mix different head companies with different speaker companies ? Also, which speaker company should I look at for the music I listen to, Metal, Rock, Blues, Alt Rock, etc. I really don't want to pick up a set thats for classical music, and end up blowing them.

I plan on using my existing speaker grills, to hide the upgraded door speakers. Do I have to stay with the 5 1/4 speakers, or can I run 6 1/2 speaker, while not cutting up the door panel ?

I'm not looking to drive down the street like a boom box, but I do want a better sound then just the 2 door speakers I have now.

[911S Targa]

TTT

[911S Targa]

Never Mind Elu.,.,.,bought one for $157.30 from techronics about 2 mins ago.

But still asking about your amp.

[yngwie1]

Elu and I have similar set ups. I have a Blaupunkt Lexington head unit (oldie, but a goodie), the kenwood SW1 under the passenger seat and a small Pioneer 4x35w amp that powers the front and rear speakers.

You won't be sorry regarding the Kenwood sub.

[Elu]

Yeah, you really need some sort of amp to boost the drive on those speakers. My head unit is 50Amps, but when you put 150amps to the speakers and you have a 150amp sub the system sounds like a million bucks. I jumped the sub unit from the front channel off of the input on the amp under the seat, ran the wires over the hump and voila!

The sub unit is really great and you got to know that almost every stereo installer will try to talk you into a huge bazooka tube or some big ass box saying that you will never get true subs from the Kenwood. I will bet any of those dufusses $1000 that they are dead wrong. I'm in the music industry...I know sound.

[defcon65]

5" Pioneer 2-ways at Walmart - $40 a pair. Way better than the stock Blaupunkt paper cone jobs.

[quattrorunner]

An amp really makes any speakers sound better. I waisted a lot of time thinking the stereo was powerful enough, but as soon as I installed an amp, even a small amp, the sounds just came out. Much better to run an amp.

[lateapex911]

As one of the dufasses mentioned above (in a previous life, LOL) (And I hate Bazooka tubes, LOL), just a word or two on speakers watts and head units.

Head units are often called "50 watts" or something, but rarely, even with the better makes like Alpine, do they put out 50 usable watts. The distortion at the claimed output is speaker damaging and ear insulting. Quatrorunner is right...in most cases, an outboard amp will improve things dramatically, and not just from a volume level either.

Most speakers will blow far sooner with an amp that is under the speakers rating but distorting, than one that actually makes clean power OVER their rating.

First rule of car stereo, the volume knob needs to stop before distortion starts. Cranking the bass knob brings the onset of distortion much sooner.

Just some common FYI points....

[Elu]

I get to claim acceptions to the duffus rule...lateapex911 you are not a duffus...lol.

He makes a great valid point about underpowering speakers. The same thing applies to bands and pa systems. If you under power speakers and you are turing your stereo up and distorting the speakers....ouch. It's just a matter of time before they permanently sound that way.

[randywebb]

Originally posted by defcon65
5" Pioneer 2-ways at Walmart - $40 a pair. Way better than the stock Blaupunkt paper cone jobs.

Are you sure?

Maybe it was only Way better than the old, water-damaged, aged, worn-out stock Blaupunkt paper cone jobs.