Are the door speakers full range or just "subs"?

[f0rge]

**Fair warning I'm a car audio n00b, but know a fair bit about home audio**

Looking to upgrade my door speakers (and possibly dash), but I'm a bit confused about what to replace them with.

Do I just want a standard 2-way 6.5inch setup? (with bracket/adapters) or do I need to look for something specific?

With a 2-way installed will the door speakers play high frequency sounds or is the deck cutting off higher frequencies?

What if I bought a component set and put the woofers in the doors and the tweeters in the dash with no crossovers, would that even work?

Please help lol, I'm obviously lost.

[Calavera]

Crutchfield.com guided me well on my last vehicles regarding what fit.

[mashal]

You can just replace speakers but don't expect too much sq, it may just get a tad louder/crisper.
If your going after market you need to amplify your HU signal to your speakers, then you don't necessarily need crossovers coz the amp will do it.
Also you need to be specific as to what you want in your audio build.

Why not just toss a jl clean sweep in there, it will clean up your OEM audio very well.

[PatrickSAN]

You need a standard 6.5" component setup for the doors and can go with component mids in the doors in an adapter and mount the tweeter in the dash 3.5" location (with an adapter plate) or try to re-use the stock tweeter location. Another option is a 3.5" full range in the dash and either a 6.5" coaxial or midrange in the door location.

http://www.subaruaudio.net/installat...nd-scion-fr-s/

Good info there.

[Gary in NJ]

You don't say if you are intending to use a subwoofer. If so, the door speaker is a mid-bass. Usually a sub is run from 20 to 80/100 Hz and the signal sent to the mid-bass is therefore limited to 80/100 to 300-400 Hz (depending on the other two speakers you choose in the dash).

[dj petey]

The door speakers are 6.5" woofers. The factory amp did a pretty shitty job of powering and crossing it over as sub woofer. I just installed a 6 channel amp to bypass the HU amp and the external sub amp. Huge improvement over stock. still using all factory speakers. I tried putting a proper 110Hz 12dB crossover on the door drivers but they didn't have the balls for it so i jacked it up to 500Hz 12dB and got some decent sound out of it. It gets a bit loose at higher volumes but at normal listening volumes it fills in the mid bass gap pretty well. Not even close to being the ideal setup but a great improvement over the stock amplifier.

I don't personally believe replacing the drivers without addressing the amp will do you much good. It's already an underpowered amp with a bad crossover point. using a higher powered driver will only expose the amp's lack of power that much more. For the same money as a pair of good drivers you can get a small sub amp with a built in crossover that will take care of what i personally believe is the weak link in the whole setup.

[f0rge]

Yeah i'm currently exploring options to bypass the stock rear amp and replace with something that will power the speakers properly. Then I'll probably switch out the door speakers to something a little more quality.

I'm not running a sub, so midbass will have to do.