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Originally Posted by pseudo
Hey guys,
So I am a little disappointed by the stock audio system - which is fine considering how much car you get in other respects, but the highs on the car clip and rasp, the mid is nothing impressive and there is literally no bass.
So I went down to my local car audio shop, who is basically an alpine-exclusive dealer. He recommended the spr-60c for the 6" door speakers and tweeters:
http://www.alpine-usa.com/product/view/spr-60c/
and he didn't really push for me to touch the 4" speakers in front or in the back, but if I did, I think that these are the best 4" speakers that alpine has:
http://www.alpine-usa.com/product/view/sps-410/
I have a nice 2 channel setup at my home, and I realize that car audio can't come close to good home audio - but do any audiophiles out there have any experience with alpine? Will the sound quality justify the ~500 price tag? Is there a better brand out there for car audio?
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I ran Alpine Type-R components in all 4 doors in my STI, and each pair cost $300 for just the speaker pairs. It was absolutely worth
every penny. Better than the Type-R coaxials with better highs, though both components and coax's have excellent mids and non-subwoofer bass.
If I wasn't pretty well sold on OEM Audio+, I'd be going with a Type-R solution for my BRZ. Probably go with components again, with woofers in the doors, and route the tweeters to the front deck and leave out the mid-range 3" speakers, replace the rear speakers with 4" Type-S's, and go with a JL Audio 8" sub in the rear (probably dual 4ohms wired in parallel), and run a 5 channel amp: 1 mono channel for the sub, and a channel for each speaker, and run the amp from the stock HU through an audio-control LC2 (and from the LC2 pre-outs to the amp), or use an aftermarket HU with good pre-outs (at least 4V) and run pre-outs from the HU to the amp.
I'm not a high-def audiophile (I won't spend $800 on a set of headphones and have a special 2-channel listening room or whatnot), but I am an audio-lover. I like GOOD audio.
The alpine type R's are very much worth their price tag, but you DO need to amp the speakers. The stock HU doesn't provide enough power to power aftermarket speakers, period, and doing so will not give you good quality, or at least not at the level which would justify the price tag. But with a good AMP, the speakers will really shine and prove their worth.