Advantages: Drop in replacement for 5 inch car speakers. Reasonable bass response Disadvantages: Tweeter breaks easily, distorts at volume. Expensive for what you get.
I bought 2 boxes of these speakers at £15 per box to replace the 4 much abused, 18 year old speakers in my car. Initially I was pleased with them, they weren't much louder than the speakers they replaced but they had slightly better clarity and bass. After a month or so, one of the speakers developed a horrible high pitched buzz from the tweeter on certain notes. I checked to see nothing was caught in it and wrote it down to me over-driving them. ... ...a lowly 12watts RMS, I felt 90 watt speakers should be able to cope. However, for some reason the manufacturer refuses to follow the industry and measure their speakers in RMS.
After a further few weeks of not particularly loud music, the other 3 speakers developed exactly the same problem as the first, screaming on certain tones.
I borrowed a tone generator CD from someone and played it loud through all frequencies which seems to have reduced ...
DCISmith 05.08.2008
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