Replaced center speaker...now my bass from the doors is better?

Rash said:

Pretty much every day. Sounds fine to me - not distorted. Just wish it went a bit louder at times, and had better quality highs.


I dare you to listen to Collective Soul "Heavy", or Dinosaur Jr, "Out There", or Awolnation "Here Come The Runts" without going over 20. Hell, I often max out at 30 for some older stuff that wasn't recorded as loud - The Cars 'Candy-O" for example.

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Mmmm... Candy-O... mmmm
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I feel for the milennials......



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I loved The Cars first three albums, but man did they suck live. Sounded good but BORING.

I finished my up Chef_jpd upgrade today:

Replaced the stock sub with a Rockford Fosgate 8" Punch and swapped out the A pillar tweets with Kicker 41KST254 silk domes.

catchthecarp said:

I finished my up Chef_jpd upgrade today:

Replaced the stock sub with a Rockford Fosgate 8" Punch and swapped out the A pillar tweets with Kicker 41KST254 silk domes.

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Any improvement? Are the highs too harsh now?

Rash said:

Any improvement? Are the highs too harsh now?

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I only went for a short drive after installing the Kicker's so at this point all I can say is I noticed a difference in the way things sound overall. I'm going to need more time to form an opinion but so far nothing I'd describe as harsh. I have read where Chef and some other posters here replaced the Kicker x-over's with Focal's to tone them down. I'm getting old so I may not be able to notice anymore...

catchthecarp said:

I only went for a short drive after installing the Kicker's so at this point all I can say is I noticed a difference in the way things sound overall. I'm going to need more time to form an opinion but so far nothing I'd describe as harsh. I have read where Chef and some other posters here replaced the Kicker x-over's with Focal's to tone them down. I'm getting old so I may not be able to notice anymore...

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Keep up updated, I am curious how the Kickers sound. I have been thinking about doing this upgrade.

Rocketman said:

You guys seriously turn it up past 20?!?

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Yep, with the top down I'm at 17+ most of the time. Top up usually not as loud.

SWallace said:

I had replaced all of my other speakers first and was still really unhappy. I just did the center a few weeks ago and like others have said, it was the single biggest improvement (next to adding a sub). I unsoldered the factory harness and used it with the capacitor from the Polk speaker.

The factory amp still gets muddy above 20 but I'll deal with that later.

If anyone wants my spare I'll sell it, like the other guy $25 to the lower 48. PM me.

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Which speakers did you get? I replaced all of mine, and while with the center speaker it all sounds slightly louder, without it, the music sounds a lot smoother!

Was thinking of getting this for my center speaker. I only see them for sale on ebay, I was getting confused because they apparently have a DB351 variant for boats which makes searching for them annoying.

Can a newbie like me install this pretty quick?

Diocletian said:

Was thinking of getting this for my center speaker. I only see them for sale on ebay, I was getting confused because they apparently have a DB351 variant for boats which makes searching for them annoying.

Can a newbie like me install this pretty quick?

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Yep! Pretty easy to install this one. Besides that, a lot of useful information on this forum to help you do so!

Diocletian said:

Was thinking of getting this for my center speaker. I only see them for sale on ebay, I was getting confused because they apparently have a DB351 variant for boats which makes searching for them annoying.

Can a newbie like me install this pretty quick?

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Amazon has them.

Should be easy peasy.

SVT-DADDY said:

Amazon has them.

Should be easy peasy.

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Yep, $40 bucks. Guess I'll find out soon enough, but I have been wondering if there's enough room under the speaker grill to install my Fastrak device which is about 3x3x.5. Maybe rework the grill mounts to be magnetic for easy removal. Any insights on this idea?

Redcruzer said:

Yep, $40 bucks. Guess I'll find out soon enough, but I have been wondering if there's enough room under the speaker grill to install my Fastrak device which is about 3x3x.5. Maybe rework the grill mounts to be magnetic for easy removal. Any insights on this idea?

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The non PP cars don't have much room under the grill because of the center vent. I actually had to clearance the grill the make room for the tweeter as it does protrude a bit.

PP cars with no center vent can "under mount" the speaker and should be able to get away without clearancing the grill. I'd imagine your device would fit in that scenario.

The grill does go under the metal bezel that runs the length of the dash. So in order to make the grill removable you'd have to contend with that.

I am reluctant to replace a component speaker with a co-axial speaker. I'm afraid it's gonna mess up the sound stage and cause harsh highs. But I want better highs, and this seems easier than replacing the pillar tweeters. For those who have done this and only this, can you describe the difference it made, pros and cons?