Vibe 6x9's and a Sony HU

Run the 6x9s in series with a LPF on them to take out some of the higher frequencies and any phasing issues.

You are better off with components and a sub though.
 
Back in the day I had some alpine 6x9s mouted on a custom inch thick carpeted mdf shelf in my metro (yo!). The speakers were on offer for £35 and the shelf cost about £10 for the bits.

I had a couple of mates with amped 6x9s on the standard shelf and it sounded pants

Looking back I would have been better with a set of components up front, with a sub in the boot, but that was more money than I had back then.
 
Save your money, take your time and install a decent setup.

I was running 6x9s on a stealthed MDF shelf. With a JBL sub in the boot running on an Orion amp. The ONLY reason I'm doing this is the 6x9s were free, they cost £80 new back in the day. And frankly, they're crap. No real weight to say they have decent punch, and no clarity or detail to make them anything but muffled. The sub took care of all the mid-range that the 6x9s did and more, I didn't even hear them.

Just 'dropping' a sub in the boot isn't quite as easy as people think by the way. It involves running (fused) power cable from the battery under the bonnet, through the car and into the boot and earthing somewhere in there (usually on one of the nuts for the suspension struts) and running RCA leads from the HU to the boot down the other side.

If you want to mount components you may need to fabricate/buy replacement mounts if you want to fit anything larget than the standard size.

Fitting an aftermarket head unit will make a BIG difference in sound quality, and will give you a better idea of what you need to upgrade next. A smaller, livlier sub may be able to take care of a lot of the rage you currently lack, at the expensve of a less organ-devistating hit at the bottom end.

Avoid active subs. They suck. Almost as hard as 6x9s :p

I usually got for Alpine HUs. Pioneer and Kenwood are also good. And blaupunkt, whilst not at the previous prestige, can offer good value for money.

Ant :cool:
 
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I'm using 6x9's for very light rear fill (via an active crossover, basically no high frequencies and no uber low frequencies) and tbh they are fine for rear fill. I might even run them in mono. Components up front, single 12" sub in the boot, 2ch (bridged to sub)+4ch amps. Sounds hmm, decent/good, not amazing, but more than adequate (I studied sound engineering for a combined 7 years, so I have a vague idea). Of course mine isn't geared towards volume, yours might be.

I think 6x9's get a bad wrap tbh, they're never going to match a solid set of components in SQ terms, and I would never personally use them as my primary speakers, but they offer great value for money, and if you're into out and out volume, hard to beat.
 
Dreadhead said:
I suppose I could loose the 6x9's and get some component speakers to replace the stock ones in the front., I did however want something to kick out some bass until I bought a sub..
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Spend slightly more and buy this :

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/pioneer-dehp5100ub-p-7307.html

Then buy any subwoofer in an enclosure you can find, aslong as its a Dual 4.

The headunit has a feature where you can show it a bridged 2 channel 2ohm load and run a subwoofer off the back channels. It will also low pass it so the sub doesnt play anything higher than 50 or 80 or 120hz.

Now that might sound like a stupid idea but I did this off a DLS REFERENCE 15 for around 8 months and it was perfectly fine for sq and listening. Infact I could say it sounded better then than it does now as now everything vibrates and rattles as I havent bothered fitting SD in my daily :)

6x9's are BAAAD unless fitted in their own boxes.
 
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