I was soooo sick of my cheap 6" speakers making weird noises when I play Metallica, Rammstein or AFI that when I saw Sony Xplode 6X9" at Supercheap on special i grabbed them! They are so good! Supercheap also had 6X9" speaker boxes there on sale too, so i grabbed them as well. Now i've just gotta get new 6" in the front door panels and I'm thinking i'll go the Xplode's again. What do you think?
i'm thinking that it's your money (but i wouldn't mind xplods in my car)
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(atm i'm quite happy with my 11" x 13" pioneers)
sound good doozer, when I was up north a few weeks ago and there was this auto joint closing down,got me some of those speaker pods(moulded one)a front set for the bug that take 6" and front and back for the bus, the back ones take 6x9's.man I was stoked as these are nornaly $130 a pair,got them at 50%off.:thumb:thumb
tutt tutt,,boozer, u will never b a fully fledged rat if you keep improving the car.
whats wrong with the good old 'purchase crappy box/home stereo/ speakers (pref fake walnut veneer 70's style) from op-shop'? eh.....bit o' solid core wire from garden shed, dodgey electrical tape....... sheesh you yunguns are so fussy these days!!!!😀
btw................only little surface rust + 2 dents, bit o creative panelbeating or bog, but hey its free!lol. Will it do?🙂
the more dints the better! when can i pick it up? thanks😀:thumb
every tues and thurs I am in brizvegas, eagle farm, can bring it with me to save u drive to boonies,or i can bring it along to tech day, or even possibly big pineapple..the possibilities are endless..... u2u, me lol.😀
mmm. got 6x9 Explods in thr front of my bus. sound great!
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Yeah I reckon they are okay. Had em in the Beetle and it was alright.. better than cheap shit ones, but a similar price, if that makes sense.. 😀
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as BennetonVW said......a decent performer at a decent price......not really a super dooper speaker but produce nice sound.........but for hardcore stuff u want alpine or clarion.....its kinda strange how sony used to kinda rule the electrics world and it still is a very major brand but it never really made the best car audio equipment.
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1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
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ive been looking around at speakers, found "cadence" look really strong/durable, and not crazy expensive
Boozer wrote:I was soooo sick of my cheap 6" speakers making weird noises when I play Metallica, Rammstein or AFI
You an AFI fan? Awesome.......StS period or the early stuff?
thanks so much doozer looks like the sound in gremlin is going to change for the better so i am told something about a sub woofer and something to make my ear bleed
The main thing is that you are happy with them boozer. As hinted above Sony xplod don't have the best rep in the car audio world, but for their cost they do a good job. As I said, the main thing is that they are an improvement on your old ones so good stuff! :bounce
Boozer wrote:I was soooo sick of my cheap 6" speakers making weird noises when I play Metallica, Rammstein or AFI that when I saw Sony Xplode 6X9" at Supercheap on special i grabbed them! They are so good! Supercheap also had 6X9" speaker boxes there on sale too, so i grabbed them as well. Now i've just gotta get new 6" in the front door panels and I'm thinking i'll go the Xplode's again. What do you think?
I've done 20-25 car stereo installs in the last few years and a few of them have been Sony setups. I can honestly say they are the most overhyped, over priced, over marketted pieces of crap I've ever put into a car. The JVC range, which is usually cheaper on a comparable spec'd product has a much more responsive, bassy, crisper sound. Then if you spend a few more bucks and get Kenwood / Alpine it starts to put Sony to shame and if you spend even more and go to Rockford Fosgates, theres no competition whatsoever. Obviously tho, price is nearly always a consideration, and also wether you're going for SQ or SPL, but IMO (and in many many other peoples), you can definitely get more for your money than with Sony's car audio gear. But hey, if you're happy with them as is, stick with it.
it all depends how you use them. i haev explods in the front, ancient splits in the rear in a huge box (the entire underside of my rear seat is the box :o ), and a 12inch extremely cheap sub boxed into the front where the spare wheel used to go. currently all hooked upto a sony headunit and the sound? amazing. the 6x6s are low on bass, but the huge rear bow with the splits really kicks, the explods offer great higher frequencies, and the sub is so cheap that it is really only a woofer and therefore i am running it as a speaker directly from the stereo and ru this way it provides absolutely heaps of audible bass, al 3 elements combine to make a really well balanced system, my only complaint about the cheaper equipment is slightly less clarity then the higher end equipment.
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it seems you either love xplods or hate them. i know plenty of people that are big fans of them but i'm not that fussed.
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im one of those that hates them personally after seeing what they are like electronicly
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boozer, ignore them...u love em that's enuf
dubless. 🥲
🥷 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my house??? 🥷
As long as you here them sweet sweet tunes of metalica, pantera, system of a down, audioslave, guns n roses, ac/dc, black sabeth, rob zombie, rage against the machaine and bands of the like
You only need two tools
Wd40 if it don't move and it should
Duct tape if it move's and it shouldn't
Pioneer is what you need...
And for my other 2cents AFI are terrible. and system.
Audioslave is just boring, but Chris Cornell is awesome.
Reality leaves alot to the Imagination
E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRGGHHHHH, i'm gonna get my gay little emo friends to kill you for blasphemy!!!!!!!! listen to early AFI, you won't believe its the same band that do Sing the Sorrow (which, admittedly, is rather gay)
if you got one of those speaker shelf up behind the back seat of a bug a set of "Kickers" do very well in full sun...😉
E are you into sound garden then
You only need two tools
Wd40 if it don't move and it should
Duct tape if it move's and it shouldn't
Personally im not a big fan of Sony Explod.
My current ride is fitted out very thoroughly with DLS speaker, amps and cap. The head unit is a Clarion, close to top of the line.
It is a beautiful system worth every cent!
I highly advise you put in a solid effort with the sound deadening. A genuine effort with the deadening material will improve the sound of any speakers, well worth the cost.
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[Edited on 9-3-2005 by fozee]
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i did a install in my 72 fasty a few months back i had :
1 pair of pioneer 6x9`s
1 alpine 350 watt rms x2 channel amp running 2 strike 12 inch subs
1 alpine deck with sub control awesome deck only cost me 300!
1 us audio 55x4 channel amp running ny 6x9`s
and was the best combo that me and my mates have heard for the price it pumped out an apprx 120 dbs! not bad for a volksy in the end i had to rivet the numberplate on put spring washers on all the bolts on the rear end of the car oh and the badge fell off the boot!!
ill try to find some pics of it for ya
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
Booz, have you seen the movie Joe Dirt, am picturing the part where he was questioning what music you were actually listening to. You say Metallica, Rammstein or AFI but in reality it was Bryan Adams or Wham.. 😀
no I haven't seen it yet
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
yeh, i dig sound garden. gnarley stuff. And im really not convinced about AFI, as they aren't my kind of tastes.
Reality leaves alot to the Imagination
i've seen it...very funny...i loved the wig, just couldn't get past it...
dubless. 🥲
🥷 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my house??? 🥷