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31 May 2013
Good for the money, run off HU or amped, but you will still need a sub
I bought this product to replace OEM door speakers on a 2002 Nissan Sentra SE-R. I chose these for the Alpine price-to-quality ratio, for the fact that I can run them off head unit power now and an amp later, and because the materials they are made from (plastic basket, poly cones, rubber surround) will stand up well in my econo-box car very poorly weather-sealed doors. I also like big silk dome tweeters. They do come with plastic mount adapter rings, which is nice; but I made 1" thick mounts out of MDF and Masonite, coated with truck bed liner, gasketed with 1/8" closed-cell contour foam, surrounded by a mineral wool baffle diffraction ring. Currently powered with an aftermarket Kenwood HU (typical 20WRMS or so), they sound far better--insofar as HU-powered speakers CAN "sound better"--than stock in the midrange and highs, although they do have a slight "suck-out" at about 2500Hz (probably due to woofer beaming). Also, assuming these tweets can handle it, IMO the crossover to the tweeter should probably be set closer to 4-5kHz than the current 8kHz, which would help in the 2k-4kHz region (perhaps another cap paralleled with some alligator clips fixes this?. I am still using the Nissan POS stock 1/2" PEI dome A-pillar tweets for raised soundtage (tweets soon to be replaced with something better), but added some 2.2uF caps in series to increase their xover from 8kHz to 24kHz and these Alpines do marry well with that. These Alpines do poorly with lows (below 125Hz or so), but that is to be expected from anything this small in an (admittedly not well-sealed) IB application; without some major reconstruction of the car, no door- or deck-mounted speaker is going to give you real bass. These speakers soon will be mated to a Dayton Audio RSS265-HF 10" trunk-mounted subwoofer (in a 1 cuft sealed enclosure) all powered by a 4-channel amp (in 3-channel mode 75Wx2@4ohm, 12dB HPF TBD about 80-125Hz + 250Wx1@4ohm, 12dB LPF 50Hz), with nothing in the rear deck, and then I believe they will truly shine.