Speakers

[Gary]

Hello

I have a Bravo S and I need new speakers because the standard ones are crap. I am going to buy a CD/MD player but first I thought I would purchase decent speakers for the back and front.I have found the TS-575 (5 X 7 80W Max) and TS-1325(13cm 2-way speakers 80w max)Are these any good? how much would they cost (also fitting) and/or can anybody recommend any others.

Thanks

 

[Paul]

Pioneer Speakers

Hi Gary,

I went and bought those speakers ages ago, before I found this site.

There not very good, I've got them running of a Pioneer CD head unit and there bass response isn't particully brilliant.

I will be removing these speakers soon and probably start looking for some JBL's as I've heard they are quite good and are also straight replacements. Or I may do some modifying of the front doors and put some bigger better speakers to run of a amp.

Tomorrow, I'm going to be ordering a new stealth shelf with some Kenwood 6x9's. Should take about 10 - 12 days, so I will let you know how it sounds.

Hope this helps, also check out Bertje's site, he has a pretty good system in a Marea, which is same fittings as Bravo.

http://home.wxs.nl/~bertjes/home.html

 

[John]

Hi, I have fitted JBL throughout the car. They offer standard replacement and are so easy to fit, just a few screws. I also mentioned in a previous post about the stealth shelf, this is really the only way to get a good base by fitting 6x9 again JBLs to this, the MDF board really improves the bass. For an extra £130 i also placed a small self amplified base box (pioneer) again really easy to fit with the new pioneer unit you are getting. Mine is the CD9700i or something and they have pre-amp out simple............ It takes up little boot space and adds good depth and richness not the really obtrusive bomp bomp than some give, this may be to your taste and if you need the boot space back smply unplug and take out could not be easier. Now I have the base boax their really is no going back.

The pioneer i chose is one of many, only 200watts but is all self contained and gives good clarity

Good luck

Cheers John

 

[Steve D]

Custom fit speakers

The problem with most speaker manafactures is that their custom fit speakers (designed to fit straight in original places with all existing fittings)are designed with the fit in mind NOT the sound of the final product. What you should do instaed is find the size of your speaker (bravo is 13cm/5" or 16.5cm/6" with adaptors) and by some normal after market speakers. As for the rear JBL are the only company I know that do a 5x7 speaker replacement which is NOT a custom fit (i.e not designed without the sound in mind). It will fit any car that has a 5x7 speaker in it (the bravo on the rear side shelf). JBL's 5x7 is designed just as all thier other speakers are with the final sound quality in mind not perfect fit!

As mentioned above though the best way to upgrade overall sound (mid and bass especially) is to fit a set of 6x9's in a custom built stealth shelf (89.99 from Halfords). A shelf that looks excatly like the original (contours, carpet, fixings) but holds two speaker of your choice underneath which play through the acoustic carpet!!

 

[Bertje]

Ah, thanks
But to replace the frontspeakers you can use adapters for almost any 13cm quality composet. 16cm woofers are a bit too big, maybe you have to cut some metal.

Some good brands: MB-Quart, Polk, Dynaudio, Diamond, Rainbow, JBL, Infinity.
Rob.