I have well and truly had enough of the standard system in the Mk1 Octavia. So far I have upgraded the head unit and unplugged the rear tweeters. I have just ordered some shallow components for the front, I am now looking at replacing the rears. Should I replace the rears with some 2 way speakers or just go for 1 way? I am going to be adding a sub and amp at some point in the future but don't want to be rattling the windows, just want a clearer deeper sound.

Any advice welcome

Cheers

Mike

Was thinking of these for the rears? http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_237965_langId_-1_categoryId_165707 and something like this as a sub http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_723155_langId_-1_categoryId_165702

I don't want top notch but want a reasonable sound :p

For most instant results I would go down the sub route first. I'm using a £40 ex-display kicker sub from halfords coupled with a £30 150w alpine amp also a halfords special reduced from £90 on an end of line sale. hooked up to a pretty basic kenwood headunit and standard component speakers.

Just having the sub alone gives so much of a better sound to the whole system because the other speakers aren't working so hard i.e trying to recreate the low bass which they can't do because of their size. It's fairly easy to improve the sound greatly without much cost

EDIT: looking at your links, i'm not sure you will notice any difference from those alpine speakers as they aren't amped. the standard paper speakers should be able to handle the power output from just a headunit which will be like 10w RMS. infact they may be better matched to it and therefore produce a slightly better sound if anything.

I think the only reason you would need to change the standards is if you are going to amp them, or your headunit is putting out a huge power.

(remember a 4x50w headunit is labled at a MAX power to my understanding, at RMS [continuous] power it would be lucky to see 10watts.)

Edited 30 July, 201015 yr by Jcb.

Sub will probably be the last thing I get around to due to lack of time. I've ordered a pair of these http://www.dvbcaraudio.co.uk/alpine-sxe1750s-shallow-component-speakers-p-2546.html I know they aren't going to be awesome but "should" be much better than the stock ones.

The problem you will still have is that you will be putting full range through speakers that are not designed to handle it.

On my Alpine I can set a high pass filter and select the cutoff frequency for the speakers running off the headunit.

I had a fiddle with the settings and once I cut the frequency off at 120-ish the standard speakers are a lot better.

They are a lot clearer and go louder. I am gonna add just a sub at first and see what it sounds like.

I will go for amped components eventually but my cash is going on other mods first.

The problem you will still have is that you will be putting full range through speakers that are not designed to handle it.

On my Alpine I can set a high pass filter and select the cutoff frequency for the speakers running off the headunit.

I had a fiddle with the settings and once I cut the frequency off at 120-ish the standard speakers are a lot better.

They are a lot clearer and go louder. I am gonna add just a sub at first and see what it sounds like.

I will go for amped components eventually but my cash is going on other mods first.

I've got an Alpin HU with a high pass filter, might have a fiddle and see what happens. Are you still running standard speakers?

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Ha ha ha I had the complete opposite problem, high pass was on full, turned it off and turned the "loud" on and it now sounds much much better, actually now have some Bass.

Be interesting to see what difference the new alpine components will make.