aftermarket speakers with no amp ?

[Patrik]

is it safe to use aftermarker speakers with aftermarket radio, or is it a must to use an amp ?

i guess a low rms range speaker would do the trick ?

obviusly this is all about a money question since i dont have enough money for an amplifier but still want a nice quality sound system...

thanks for sharing your experiance


merci !

[netherland24]

should be fine

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aftermarket... no more shall i use this word

[NRDriver]

do u have the gen 1. my gen 1 has an amp. i dont know if its just the jbl that has the amp. i am runnin all aftermarrket kenwood speakers and they sound great with the stock amp

[woa_its_j3ff]

it should be fine.
btw Patrik your avatar made me laugh for a lil while.

[Patrik]

yes i have a Gen 1 but not with the JBL package so im just a bit scared of burning the radio..

woa_its_j3ff : oh ya hehe your not the first one who makes that remark so i guess it is pretty funny

[funboy102]

of course it's safe. In my old car, for a month, i used aftermarket speakers (Polk db650) with an aftermarket receiver (Apline CDA 9830), then I got an amplifier.

why did you think something would be wrong?

[lilmike2069]

is it safe to use aftermarker speakers with aftermarket radio, or is it a must to use an amp ?

It has actually been proven as life threatening... should you persue this mission, i advise that you stay at least 15feet from your car at any time the aftermarket headunit is powering the aftermarket speakers directly.

Side note: It has also been proven that driving an aftermarket 12" subwoofer directly from the front right channel of an aftermarket headunit will actually improve your health, however doing the same with a factory headunit will have the exact opposite effect. Good luck

[Mr_Chunks]

my type S components sounds like as.s because i still have stock head unit.. that will change soon.

If youre planning on running component with 50wrms or more i may suggest an amp. My homie told me he couldnt even install crossover cause jbl amp is 20w each channel and the crossover woulda sucked out so much power coming from stock amp that i would have barely heard any music at all. Other than that it wont damage anything at all...

[Patrik]

lilmike2069 thanks for your close to useless post...


on an other not


Mr_Chunks that the kind of info i needed thank you

[CASTRO]

Maybe my experience would help you out.

Changed stock speakers to 6.5 Alpine Type-R components=with stock deck and amp. Sounded horrible, too little power. You could start to hear distortion from the stock JBL amp trying its best, while the type-r's begged for more. (I had to fade the sound to the front to compensate for the power loss)

Added a 150w amp for front components with stock deck, sounded a lot better, but too much white noise and muddy sounding quality from stock deck. (btw, used a converter from speaker out to RCA for the amp)

Changed stock deck to an after market and used nothing but RCA outs. Sounded amazing. No more white noise, can get as loud as I want without distorting and can change every setting till it sounded perfect.

Hope that helps.

BTW, Added a sub before the deck and now its exactly as I want it to sound. Didnt add it to the chronological audio-time line as its not very related to the current topic of: speakers, amps and decks.

[PXLpainter]

of course it's safe. In my old car, for a month, i used aftermarket speakers (Polk db650) with an aftermarket receiver (Apline CDA 9830), then I got an amplifier.

How did the Polk Audio speakers work for you?

I've never had the auto speakers - only pro audio and home theater products...

Thanks.

[funboy102]

the Polk's? They were my first set of aftermarket speaker, so I didn't really know what to compare it too. But when I did get them, I was impressed. Wayyyy better then the stock speaker. They were able to go loud w/o distortion, and the high's sound more crisp and clear.

[hskrsolara]

most middle priced kenwoods can run on little power and sound good...I have a set of kenwood 6.5 in 3 ways in my chevy pickup, oem hu, and they sound great. just call crutchfield and they can help you quite a bit.