Advice on speaker replacements ive chosen

[Magnetic904]

Background, i have a 2020 gt with the factory B&O sound system, i recently replaced the factory subwoofer with a pioneer TS-A100D4 and sounds great and much better punch and deeper bass, now im looking at moving into the rest of the speakers but looking for some advice. Using factory amp, not currently installing anything else other than speakers.

Lower door speakers--
Infinity Reference REF-6532ex


Door Midrange--
Infinity Reference REF-3032cfx


Rear Deck--
Rockford Fosgate R1675X2


Center dash--
JBL Club 322F


These are all 4ohm speakers, crutchfield advertises they all work however that the volumes will all be reduced due to placing 4ohm speakers in lower inmpedeance factory speaker locations. Anyone with experience in this area willing to provide input? Or should i just leave it all alone?

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[Jaymar]

Replacing just the speakers with the factory amp and eq curve left intact won't be as beneficial as you hope. I'd say amp and speakers or not worth the time and effort. YMMV of course. The first thing I did was unplug the center speaker and disable the ANC (Ecoboost thing) and it cleaned up significantly. Center channels are great for home theater imaging but destroy all music mixed for two channel. Also, the factory speaker is overdriven and sounds like an alarm clock.

If you do decide to replace the speakers, Infinity referances are very good low power music speakers. The only concern would be the coaxial 3 1/2" adding a second tweeter to the already existing A-pillar mount. It will get harsh quickly and you will get some weird interference patterns between the two. The midrange speaker is driven off of the same amp channel as the tweeter so full upper range signal will go to both. You'd be good to consider disabling the A-pillar tweeter in that case.

 

[Magnetic904]

thanks for the replies, doing some research atm

 

[StangTime]

Also, don't put a coaxial in the lower door.

 

[Jaymar]

Also, don't put a coaxial in the lower door.

That too. At least it is low-passed but it still won't help the situation any.

 

[Evolvd]

Here’s what I’d do first. Sound deaden the doors. You’d be surprised at how much of a difference it can make, even with cheap speakers. The installation is more important than the gear when it comes to low budget. You can throw the most expensive component set in the world into our cars and it’ll still sound subpar without proper sound treatment.
Start there and save your money for better speakers and an amp. You don’t need 100 watts per channel to make the car loud and sound good.

 

[Excelerater]

I added Polk but infinity reference are fine
unless you have an amp they wont be loud enough and wont have bass
center dash is a waste of money,I would not even connect one.
Rear deck also wont do much,the best sound systems have front stage only and a
good subwoofer (or more) out back..

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