Speakers! My top 5 Coxials

Anonymous · June 15, 2003, 12:41

Right a lot of people have PM me about choice of speakers and as i promised i have tryed and tested these speakers over my 2 years of ICE installation.

1st part of speakers is that there are 2 types:
1) Components = 4 speakers 2 Mid range 2 tweeters (small speaker at top of door)
2) Coxials = 2 speaker ( 2mid range large speaker bottom of door behind grill)

The difference is that components give slightly better sound than coxials as the coxials have the tweeter in the speaker so the cone has to have a cut out creating less cone area = less air movement.

Speaker realy suit individuals so your music will dictate what sound is played through the speakers heres a giude:

Heavy metal = Lots of bass high end trebble (treb)
Pop = Mid range and treb
Indie = Everything
70's = Midrange only
errrr cant think of anything else s:wink: :wink: s:wink: But you get what i mean so if you like heavy metal then you will have to have a speaker that will perform well in the sub 60HZ range. s8)

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Right heres the speakers then COXAILS ONLY

Magnat Xtract 1620

Kit includes a pair of 165mm midrange units with hardened steel universal fitting chassis, centre-mounted tweeter, 60 RMS/120W peak power handling.
These are good for Mid range and Treb and set up back £60 Nice speakers and will perfrom well under head unit power (not amped)

Pioneer TS-E1775

17cm (6.5") 2-Way Speaker, 180W Max Power handling, Power Blade Cone Design
These have good Treb but very poor Bass low bass average mid range again £60

Alpine SPR-174A

6.5 inch (17cm) 2-way, 160W, Silk Dome Tweeter
Quailty gear here, Very good low bass and mid range good treb good all rounder but price £85

MBQuart RKC116

6.5 inch (17cm) 'Reference' Series coaxial speakers, separate crossovers, 19mm Titanium dome tweeters, power handling 130W, crossover frequency 4200Hz
MB quart always known as a good speaker manufacture Sound good, mid range and treb super ! good all rounder £110

Magnat Xcentric 162

Kit includes a pair of 165mm midrange units with metallic diaphragms, centre-mounted tweeter, seperate audiophile crossovers, 100 RMS/150W peak power handling.
Pick of the bunch notice in teh pic a seperate cross over will have to mount this in the door but very easy. s:P

s:P These are a very good in every range and my top of the bunch £129 tho s:cry: :cry: s:cry:

And you may say but what about teh focals you have them in yours they must be good! Well in coxails there nothing special but here some info

Access Line -165CA

165mm 2 Way Custom Fit with Grills .120Watt Max Power
£100 Nothing specail better around for the money !

A more of an upgrade an big money s:P

s:P these:
NEW Focal 165 CV

165mm 2 Way Coax. Voice coil 25mm. Motor 84mm. Tweeter TN 47 C Rotational. Tweeter Filter 12 db/Octave (adjustable tweeter level) Plug & Play quick connection system. Max Power 140W Nom Power 70W Sensitifity (2.83 V/1m): 91 dB.Frequency responce 60HZ - 20kHZ. Grilles supplied.
£200
havent heard these yet tho but there spec is good very good s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

Hope this helps some of you and i will post the Components sets after this
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Anonymous · June 16, 2003, 10:27

Thats great.
A couple of questions
Can you recommend a few websites with decent prices?
Will all of these need the MDF template to fit correctly?

J

Anonymous · June 16, 2003, 11:07

yeah these will need MDF to fit but ic an make spacers and send them in post for you as i have a master copy for teh shape.

Web sites are the best one i deal with are w www.Caraudiodirect.co.uk w and w www.unbeatablecaraudio.co.uk w

These give good dilivery time and are very helpfull s:)

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Anonymous · January 30, 2005, 20:04

Did the review of component speakers ever get finished? Would be very interested to read it.

kanujunkie · January 31, 2005, 04:43

no i dont think it ever did mate, and i dont think busters around anymore, but if your looking for some decent speakers that'll make the famed focals look like childrens toys, then go and find your local RAINBOW dealer, i heard a set of £400 focals next to the £120 Rainbows and there was no comparison, the focals were rubbish, but go find out for yourself, my local dealer is Torque Systems in Salfords, Surrey

try em, theyre excellent

Anonymous · January 31, 2005, 06:26

I can vouch that focal speakers are brilliant! Not had them in my mr2, but had a set of components in my Puma! Highly recomended!

Dom

Anonymous · January 31, 2005, 09:13

Rainbow are awesome speakers but rare as fook and hard to get hold of!!

Sorry to say that rainbow are better than focals imo.

Has any1 put 3ways in their '2? or made kickbuilds?

kanujunkie · January 31, 2005, 11:23

Quote from: "Skippy"Rainbow are awesome speakers but rare as fook and hard to get hold of!!

i can get hold of them if anyones that interested

Quote from: "Skippy"Has any1 put 3ways in their '2? or made kickbuilds?

dont know about the 3 ways but if you mean speaker panels by kickbuilds then yes, i'm mid way thru installing a set of speakers in the cubby hole doors, origionally a panel i bought from Perry190 who had braced and bonded the 2 doors together and put a sub and 2 6x9's in them. Gonna be the dogs

Anonymous · January 31, 2005, 12:38

mate can u email me a list of the models and prices u can get them for please:

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thanks.

kanujunkie · January 31, 2005, 13:25

will do, i'm going back to torque systems on Thursday or you can try them direct at http://www.torquesystems.co.uk/

Anonymous · January 31, 2005, 18:02

I had a quick look on the website but couldn't find the Rainbow speakers. Could you let me know the model so I can see if anywhere in Manchester stocks them.

Cheers.

Anonymous · January 31, 2005, 18:22

I can't find any dealer online that stocks Rainbow speakers!!!!

Someone please suggest some.

Anonymous · February 2, 2005, 17:23

Finally!

I have contacted Rainbow directly and they are sending me details of their components with prices.

Would anyone be interested in seeing this?

so.simple · February 2, 2005, 17:31

Quote from: "worsley"Finally!

I have contacted Rainbow directly and they are sending me details of their components with prices.

Would anyone be interested in seeing this?

Yes please. s:)

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kanujunkie · February 2, 2005, 18:27

the 2's in for the TTE's tomorrow so i'll ask for there prices

Anonymous · February 3, 2005, 19:44

Right then! are you sitting down?

The prices for 6.5" components start at £129 for the Dream line SLX or the X-line....

...to £6,500 for the Reference model!!!!!!!!

The SLX model is the 265 deluxe or a 265 deluxe installer (not sure of the difference) both have a max. capacity of 150 watt.

The W-line model is cCSX 265 or CFX 265 (not sure of the differences) both with max capacity of 120 watt

The nearest dealer to me is Auto Installs Ld, Blacknurn. They only listed the one dealer.

Hope this helps.

heathstimpson · February 4, 2005, 07:14

Put us down for a set of references please s:cry: :cry: s:cry: s:wink: :wink: s:wink:

kanujunkie · February 4, 2005, 08:21

sounds familliar, i got £139 for the 6" components but £7500 for the reference series quoted from torque systems. They said they had the only RHD F50 in last month having a set of the latter fitted, some people have way to much money s:? :? s:?

the company had to increase there in shop insurance to £2million to cope with the job s:? :? s:?

Anonymous · April 23, 2005, 11:21

I jus bought these cant wait to hear the buggers s8)

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http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=3834&cadid=6e4d86940b51d7df4d31e0e988b3eed6

kanujunkie · April 23, 2005, 15:22

ooooooohhh s:shock: :shock: s:shock: , now they're gonna sound nice, have to be the best sounding speakers out there and make the Focals sound like a £25 set of halfords specials

BenF · April 23, 2005, 17:14

Quote from: "Buster"yeah these will need MDF to fit but ic an make spacers and send them in post for you as i have a master copy for the shape.

Web sites are the best one i deal with are w www.Caraudiodirect.co.uk w and w www.unbeatablecaraudio.co.uk w

These give good dilivery time and are very helpfull s:) s:)

I'm very interested in fitting some new speakers to replace the components in my Roadster - what would you recommend for £70-100 if I'm going to be listening to Voice / Indie ? Next up will be a new single DIN MP3/Tuner head unit ...

Ben.

markiii · April 23, 2005, 17:40

go for teh focal components at £129 ish

kanujunkie · April 23, 2005, 19:46

Quote from: "markiii"go for the focal components at £129 ish

nnnnooooooooo dont do it, rainbow good s:D

s:D , focal bad s:(

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sorry Mark, go listen to some and you'll see what i mean, plus the rainbows are cheaper s:wink: :wink: s:wink: although i wouldn't go for the top of the range components, they cost £7000 s:shock: :shock: s:shock:

markiii · April 23, 2005, 20:11

rainbow 6.5" are cheaper?

my other concern with rainbow is tha they are metal tweeters, past experience is that these can be painfully bright,

is this still teh case with teh rainbows?

kanujunkie · April 24, 2005, 10:34

Quote from: "markiii"rainbow 6.5" are cheaper?

my other concern with rainbow is tha they are metal tweeters, past experience is that these can be painfully bright,

is this still the case with the rainbows?

they were cheaper when i was last in the shop, but i do have to admit that they were a new product to them so its possible they did have them on a special introductory price, as for the metal tweeters, cat remember, will have to go check