It is my 21st birthday in the first week of August. I have decided to replace the factory fitted speakers in my car and take advantage of the Alpine CDA-9812RB HU that i treated myself to for graduating.

I dont really know that much about the various different speaker brands that are available, and so need some advice.

I have a fiat punto mk2 5 door. I prefer clarity of sound compared to loudness, but occasionally do like to turn it up loud when i dont have my girlfriend in the car.

The back speakers dont really matter as i am going to use some of my brothers old kenwood speakers (just to fill the sound up) majority of sound will come from the front 16.5 cm (6 1/2") component speakers, I have been looking at some infinity ones and pioneer emotion components for the front.

I havent a clue what amp and what size subs to get (how many of them also) !

Type of music that is most often played is R&B if that is of any help.

Any suggestions / links would be very much appreciated.

All depends on you budget mate, Kenwood Dualmags are also good, consider getting a set of components upfront rather than speakers this'll sound much better.

Sub wise you could go for a single 10" DB Audio Raptor, these are very good for the money (around £80) and have been reviewed by Fast Car as being better than Rocky Fosgate, Kenwood, Alpine, JL Audio etc, i have 2 12"'s and are very good

You want a 4 channel amp to power the components and the single sub, yet again all depends on your price range.
Look at www.bassjunkies.com for some inspiration!

Hope this helps

I have considerably more mods, THAN YOU!​

Ill have another look at bass junkies in the morning, too many categories to go through in one go.

I would imagine that anything up to £500 (for components and amp + sub) would be my budget, obviously i would like a good deal.

Thanks for the quick reply, and more opinions welcome !

Good news, I bought some infinity speakers (components) for the front, still got to get the sub and amps. Luckily my friends sister works at a car dealership and can get me practically any sub + amp at 1/3 of rrp

Looks like im having more ice than i previously thought !

[:0]lucky bu**er! (no not butter!)
Yeah i'd agree with centoevo, go for a nice 4-channel, 2 channels to run the components and 2 channels briddged to run the sub.
I'd pick a nice amp that suits your front speakers (power wise) and then search for a sub based on what you can power it with.
Happy huntin!

Si.
2.0 20v HGT + £2.5k of stereo + NOS (soon)

Well, ive decided not to have speakers in the back, out of preference.
In the front i will have infinity 6500 cs reference series components (270 w).

As i can get some stuff cheap now, im going for 2 x XS-L121P5 (sony pentagon 12" subs) and 2 x XM-2165GTX (sony 2 channel 1000w amp) to power the fronts and subs respectively.

I think i may need to invest in some sound deadening in the future as a result !

2-channel amp?!? You mean 4-channel surely?

Si.
2.0 20v HGT + £2.5k of stereo + NOS (soon)

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He's getting two of these Si, whens your next eyetest due LOL

I have considerably more mods, THAN YOU!​

Pssssst my cars for sale​

lol, had one last week

Si.
2.0 20v HGT + £2.5k of stereo + NOS (soon)

2 channel amp powering the front speakers. And separate 2 channel amp powering the subs. Im not going for ear deafening loudness !!

No Not much mate, i am running 2 12" maystar VI subs and a phoenix Gold Amp, 135 db and can get more, my ears feel like there bleeding when i turn it up your head is gonna x-plode, sound dedneing (spelling) i used brown bread, but i still get a rattle from the boot lock and rear wiper, but i will be haveing them smoothed soon so hopefully all rattles will go on my mk2

The devil made me do it officer