Mike's Car Audio Reviews

A good friend of mine is not in to car audio at all, but he came to me for help with getting new speakers for his car. Keeping in mind that he still has a factory sound system, I went out with him to look for new car speakers. We came across a couple of cheap Pioneer speakers that sounded decent for the price. The Pioneer TS-164P were installed in her car about 2 hours later (long drive back to the house). We took the car for a ride to test the new speakers out. The Pioneer TS-164P were not clean or as loud as I was used to, but he loved them and the fact that it did not cost him a arm and a leg to replace his factory speakers after the blew. So, if anyone is looking for cheap speakers to replace you old factory ones and don’t have a car amp, I would recommend looking in to the Pioneer TS-164P speakers.

Eclipse car audio has a brand new series of speakers out now, called Integrated Series. I was looking at the Eclipse SE6900 6x9s and I was really impressed. Looks like Eclipse is going to be doing great things in 2008. The Eclipse SE6900 has a very nice metallic look to it and has really great sound, even at high volumes.  The SE6900 are a 4 way 6×9 speaker, midrange is 1-1/2 inch, and has 2 tweeters.  First is 1 inch and the super tweeter is 3/4 of a inch.  They have a RMS rating of 75 watts and can handle peak loads up to 220 watts.  The frequency response is 40Hz-25kHz, a very wide range in my opinion and nice for a pair of 6x9s.  The Eclipse SE6900 cone is made out of a hybrid mica PP and seems to be very durable.  The SE6900 does have a mounting depth of just over 3 inches so make sure you do have room for this car stereo speaker before you purchase it.  MSRP is$199.00.

After my 2 previous post of Pioneer speakers, TS-C720PRS and TS-C160R, I wanted to write about a less expensive Pioneer speaker. The Pioneer TS-A1302C is part of Pioneers A Series speakers. These are cheaper series of Pioneer speakers. The Pioneer TS-A1302C are going to be perfect for people that have a small amp or looking to upgrade their factory speakers with out having to buy a amp. The TS-A1302C has a RMS of only 35 watts. One of the things that I like best about the Pioneer TS-A1302C is the invisible tweeter mounting. The Pioneer TS-A1302C looks very good and clean after a install.

Lets go ahead and take a look at the Kicker SS Series SS65.2. Kicker never seems to stop putting out great products and they have done it again with the Kicker SS Series SS65.2. I got my first pair of Kicker SS Series SS65.2 about a week ago for reviewing and I was very impressed by the sound that it could put out, especially that it only needs 100 watts to produce.

Car Speakers, this is when you are going to have to start making decisions carefully. Midrange speakers come in many different types: coaxials, components, woofers and tweeters will be very important if you are planning on going in to SQ competition, but not important in SPL at all. Don’t let any ever tell you that tweeters will help you in it, they wont. Speakers come in many different sizes. The size speakers you buy will probably have a lot to do with the factory speaker locations in your car or truck, Of course you always have the option getting a custom car audio system. My audio blog will give you much more information when i do the speaker reviews and go more into detail with each speaker.

Pioneer car 6-1/2 speaker review. Looking to “REV” up you car audio system. The Pioneer TS-C160R would be a great addition to almost any system. I have the opportunity to listen to these speakers for the first time this weekend. Damn was all i could say. This is probably one the best 6-1/2 speakers have i listened to in a long time. There are a lot of great things about this speaker that i liked. The Pioneer TS-C160R has great frequency response rate at 25-32khz.