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Car Speakers (front/rear)

Car Speakers (front/rear)

Select your choice of front and rear full-range speakers for your system. Model sizes will be selected to suit your vehicle. Specific model numbers will be provided within the quotation.

EASY FIT
Choosing 'Easy fit' will mean that the chosen speaker will be a drop-in replacement for the factory speaker, requiring minimal installation work. This not only reduces the fitting cost but ensures that the factory look is fully retained.

However, in many cases, fitting better quality custom type speakers can also be done while retaining the factory look of the vehicle's interior. The sales staff at one of our InCar Expert member shops will be very happy to discuss this or any other special cosmetic requirements, such as colour matching to other trim.

CHOOSING YOUR SPEAKERS
In any audio system, whether in the home or in the car, it is the speakers that have the most effect on the final sound. It's their job to take the electrical signal and turn it into something we can hear, and they do that simply by moving the air - pretty amazing really. It's a simple job and on the face of it you might think similar looking speakers will sound almost identical, but the audible difference may well amaze you. For this reason, you really do need to take time to listen to different models.

It's also difficult to rely on magazine reviews, because with speakers there is nearly always a degree of compromise. We can assume without much doubt that what we are hearing is not exactly the same as the producer of the track heard when they recorded it on studio monitors. But that doesn't matter, as long as we like what we're hearing. But does the reviewer like the same kind of sound that you like? This will vary with the music you listen to and, of course, your hearing. So choice of speakers is a very personal thing.

Power handling is the number often splashed across the packaging, making it seem all important. Of course you do need to match the speaker power handling to the output power of your amplifier, and the rule of thumb is to double your amplifier's RMS power. So if your amplifier claims an output of 30W RMS per channel, look for speakers with a power handling of at least 60W.

But power handling is no indication of quality. So how can you tell the quality of a speaker just by looking at it?

Frankly you can't, but you can get some pointers from having a good look and a feel. If you can pick it up, weigh it in your hand. Does it seem relatively heavy compared to others of the same size? Look at the back, does it have a large magnet? These are positive signs but not conclusive, because the best quality speakers will often use higher efficiency magnets. These may well be smaller and lighter but will perform as well or even better.

Here's another trick. Have a look at the basket - that's the frame that the cone sits in. Is it a simple stamped metal or something more unusual? Flick it with a finger nail. Does it ping or do you get a dull sound?

The best speakers will use a metal basket that has been treated (covered in a special paint), or perhaps a special plastic rather than metal for the frame itself. This helps to kill the 'ringing' that comes from thin metal frames, and while it may not necessarily be a big advantage in practice, it does show that the designer has tried to build a better product.

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