Legacy Speakers
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Printed Date: May 14, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Topic: Legacy Speakers
Posted By: KrazyLoCo
Subject: Legacy Speakers
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 3:15 AM
Hi All, I bought some Legacy 3 1/2 100watt speakers, and installed them. They can handle a lot more power than my factory speakers, but they sound like tin cans! Is this normal with Legacy speakers? I 'tested' them for 3 days and just couldn't stand it anymore, so I changed back to my factory speakers that sound a lot better. The Legacy's could go to a higher volume without distorting, but as I said, they sound like tin cans, if you know what I mean. Kind of a like a really low bitrate MP3/WMA. I was thinking of buying Pyramid 3 1/2 120watt speakers and hopefully they'll sound better...
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Posted By: fuseblower
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 7:04 AM
Pyramid and Legacy are in the same category.
Posted By: heavilymedicate
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 11:52 AM
Are they out of phase, are you sure you have the positive and negative in the right spots? Excluding that, you bought cheap speakers, expect cheap sound.
Posted By: KrazyLoCo
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 12:51 PM
Yep the + and - were connected right. I know they are cheap, but jeez I expected better quality than my factory speakers. Oh well I learned my lesson. :(
Posted By: Alpine Guy
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 1:06 PM
Yeah, go out and listen to some brand name speakers at your shops and see what sounds best to you in your price range.
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Posted By: pimpincavy
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 6:20 PM
I bought a set of Memphis 3 1/2 speakers for my car and i love them. I listened to 3 1/2s from JL (fabric tweeter, sounded great, but a little more then I wanted to spend), Blaupunkt (plastic tweeter, didnt like the sound), mb quart (aluminum tweeter, sounded great but to expensive) and the memphis (aluminum tweeter, sounded great and only $40 for the pair).
Keep in mind that 3 1/2s are really only good for the highs, get a good pair of 6x9s in the back and amp them, like I did, or install some 5" ones in the kickpanels...assuming your car doesnt have door speakers.
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Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: August 27, 2004 at 9:26 PM
If you are looking to spend about the same amount of money but get great sound for cheap look into street edge, it is a offbranch of memphis audio, I am now carring the equipment and been very impressed with it
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Posted By: KrazyLoCo
Date Posted: August 28, 2004 at 1:26 AM
Okay thanks a lot for the information, guys. I really appreciate it. I was thinking of putting some 6x9's in the sidepanels, or maybe some 5's. But it seems like a lot of work! Dash speakers suck. :( Anyways, I will look around for those brands that you all mentioned, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Posted By: speedwayaudio1
Date Posted: August 28, 2004 at 4:50 AM
legacy and pyramid are the same company. and yes they sound like tin cans they are just cheap speakers. I have heard some of those brands that did not sound that bad. alot of it is in the set up. If your not looking to spend a lot of money you'll just have to shop around
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Big Dave
Posted By: pimpincavy
Date Posted: August 28, 2004 at 11:15 AM
Im not sure how good of sound you are looking for, but I recently added a set of kenwood 6x9s to the back of my car, and have them running off a power acoustik amp and the mids and highs sound 10 times better then they did with just the memphis 3 1/2s and stock 6x9s.
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