I am planning on replacing the speakers in my 1995 Land Rover Discovery (deck will be a Pioneer AVIC-N1). Some folks on the Land Rover forums have been really helpful, but I wondered what the feeling is here as to which is better: 2 way speakers (or even 3 way) or separate mids and tweeters. I believe the factory speakers are 4" and I have been told to watch out for depth. THe factory speaker mount is quite shallow (I seem to run into this everywhere, my othe car is a Subaru WRX ) Anyway... I like to hear poeple's opinions, recommendations etc.
Thanks,
Mark
Check and see if you can fit a spacer behind the grill, on my subaru's (i've owned 4 legacy's 91' 95' 98' 00') if you remove the factory speaker your left with only a few inches. But if you get a spacer you add 1.5 inches, more then enough for a quality speaker. See if you can find a spacer for your Landrover. Try to get the largest speaker you can, even a 5.25" is a noticeable improvement over the 4". Deeper speakers generally provide better bass/midbass. I breakdown and buy components for all of my daily drivers, the difference is worth it. Deck power is a lie, 25x4 @1k w 5%thd? That 25 watts is a meaningless number, usable power is probably allot closer to 15 watts. Point is, don’t spend 300$ on components and a few more on rear speakers and neglect to send clean, solid, dynamic power to them.
What I recommend is... A nice set of components upfront (5.25" minimum, 6.5" preferred). Forget about the rear speakers, don’t even power them, or wait until you have done the next.... Get a subwoofer, even a quality 8" in a sealed enclosure will augment your bottom end nicely; I prefer a 10" though. Buy a decent 4 channel amp. Use two of those channels to power your components, the other two you bridge to run the subwoofer.
Shopping list.
1. Front components (5.25 or 6.5 preferred)
2. Small subwoofer (8" or 10")
3. 4 Channel amp
Later you could add rear speakers and a dedicated subwoofer amp as upgrades, switching the 4 channel amp to running the components and rear speakers.
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