replacement speaker?

Hi, I have an '05 Chevy Silverado crew cab with the bose system. I recently found one of my door speakers is blown and from what I am hearing the bose speakers are junk! I believe they are 6 3/4" but I am hearing everyone is replacing with 6 1/2". Can anyone recommend a replacement speaker? I am looking as cheap as I can go without being any less quality than the bose. EBay has some 3-way Kenwood 6 1/2" and some alpine 2-way 6 1/2", both being sold by best buy pretty cheap. Would these be any good? What do you experts suggest? I was leaning toward the 2-way alpine unless you guys suggest others. BTW the truck has the stock separate tweeters and has the sub too if that helps. Thanks in advance!

I would replace them with another pair of components. I believe those trucks have the elongated speaker grille, right? If so those are pretty easy to swap out the components while still looking completely factory.

Components have the woofer and tweeter separate. (just in case you didn't know). The alpine type-s 600c's are decent factory replacements and you can get them for not much more than the coaxial two ways I think you were looking at.

My tweeters are up by the windshield on the door pillar. If I did my research correctly, there is just a 6 3/4" in that elongated grill.

Okay you may be right on that, but it is still easy to add components under the grille if it is what I am thinking. Just need a hole saw.

If you would rather not mess with components, the alpine type-s's 2 ways are pretty good. I had them in my old car and sounded good. Not very bass heavy unamped, but you have a sub anyways so you should be okay if you are content with your current bass level.


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I would prefer to stay away from the components for right now, I'm not sure how much longer I am keeping the truck. I would like to save as much money as possible but would love to have a little more bass and all around better sound quality. I am not sold on the alpines if anyone thinks there is something better out there for the money, I just found that the alpines could probably be had for about $20 a set. I'm just not up to date on good brands anymore. Again any help is appreciated!

Your factory tweets will be fine. So you can just grab a pair of 2-way speakers and thrown them in.

Although if you DID find a good deal on components and wanted to put them in, you could do so without a hole saw. Just remove the tweeters from the pillar and hot-glue the a/m tweeters in behind there. That way you can retain a stock look.

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Do you recommend any inexpensive brands that will be a little better than the stock bose? I am only seeing alpine, kenwood and pioneer cheap right now. Just looking to replace stock, nothing special, but better than the bose would be nice. Thanks

Most aftermarket are going to be better than factory paper cones. Even if it is a "premium" system. I say most because there are some cheap aftermarke companies that use crappy materials similar to factory.

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I was just informed from a friend that he tried replacing a speaker in a Chevy with an aftermarket speaker and it would not work. He ended up having to buy an oem replacement. He said something to do with the stock amp not allowing the aftermarket speaker to work. Do I have an amp? Any truth to this? Will aftermarket speakers work in my application? Thanks again!

Let me satar with: I quit doing this profesionally a few years ago, so things may have changed and i could be wrong, but i doubt it. 

First every answer i have seen seams to be missing the obvious, and i believe everyone is wrong.  I cannot say for sure in an 05 silverado, but in the bast, most bose systems used 1.2 ohm speakers.  ever speaker i have seen recamended was a 4 ohm speaker.  If you increase your resistance by almost 4 times, you will end up cutting your wattage, and therefor volume equally.  so there are really only a few good options.

gut the entire system, replace the deck and all the speakers and bypass the bose amp.  That is the best, but most expensive option.

or choice 2, u are on the right track, just replace that pair of speakers.  But i would go with a speaker with a lower resistance than 4.  I know infinity and JBL make some 6.5's in a 2 ohm.  that is a better option than the other that have been racamended.

Any way this is only true if the bose in your vehicle uses those lower ohm load speakers.  Do a bit of reaserch on that, then make your decision. 

Good luck

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whipped500 wrote:

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I was just informed from a friend that he tried replacing a speaker in a Chevy with an aftermarket speaker and it would not work. He ended up having to buy an oem replacement. He said something to do with the stock amp not allowing the aftermarket speaker to work. Do I have an amp? Any truth to this? Will aftermarket speakers work in my application? Thanks again!

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Yes you have an amp.  yes you can replace the factory speakers with aftermarket, but read my post above this it kinda explains why the guy said you couldnt.  it is not that you cant.  it is that you shouldnt, due to the ohm load differances...  In short The sales person kinda lied, but not really.  he said you couldnt do it becaues he didnt want to sound like an eleitst pompus jerk  while trying to explain ohms law to you (for all he know u are clueless to this).  it is much easier to say you cant.  Than to say you could, but here is why shouldnt.  Exspecialy if his company did not carry and speaker like the infinity's or JBL's that i mentioned above.  There is no way he would send you to a store that could get those for you.  That would be throwing away business.  Sorry, but buying the factory stuff, you kinda got hosed. 

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If your cousin is such a good installer, and he will install anything for a 6 pack; why are you talking to me?