I am looking for a good pair of 5.25 speakers. That may or may not be what you would recommend, but for right now, that is what I want. I was wondering what kinds would be good. I do not care about the power, but the price.... I do not want it to be expensive, not more than about $100 OR LESS a pair, preferably less. I want them to sound good, and be able to keep up with my subs (two 12" solobaric L7's, 1200 watt MA audio amp to each). Right now I only have stock speakers, and the subs OVERPOWER them. I just want the 5.25's for now, I do not have the time nor the money to build anything else for the car right now.
http://www.cardomain.com/item/POLDB525 Polk Audio DB 5.25" coax... 90 bucks from sounddomain.com... that's what i'd go with for the price range, should sound good, but w/o an amp for them any speaker is gonna have a hard time keeping up with the L7's....
Well, you'll have a hell of a time finding any 5¼ that will keep up with a pair of 12L7's, let alone some that go for under $100. Alpine Type R comps (~$100), those 4½ mids from Creative Sound should have pretty darn good ouptut (~$100 for a pair)...and that's about the only ~5¼'s I can think of that might give enough output for under a $100. I know Seth and Geo have raved about some Cadence 6.5" coaxes that had great output and were cheap. Ya' might want to ask one of them if they have a 5¼ model available. Oh, and JL's XR line of coaxes might go for close to $100-$125 if you look hard enough. Otherwise, ya' might just have to save up a few more bucks. Of course, the easiest way to prevent the subs from overpowering the front stage is to turn the sub (gain) down. Grab one of the aforementioned 5¼ sets and match levels accordingly. Or just accept that two L7's will overpower almost any set of components if sub level is at full tilt.
Well, I guess that I didn't say that right, I understand they will not be able to keep up totally, I just meant the speakers that would get the closest. I am planning on getting an amp for them, but the amp I am not worrying about, I can get a great deal on a JL amp.
