ya it's a waiste, i spent lots of hours searching the internet for all the car audio garbage available and I was very depressed...the best speakers (by their rating) were 4 speakers by kenwood costing only $55! they're rated at 96 db @ 1w/1m and can handle 130watts total that's plenty loud for a car i just recently installed them in my car, and i was actually surprised how good they sounded. granted, they're nothin like klipsch, but wat's the use of 'quality' in a car system? there's so much other ambient noise from ur car, traffic, etc, that there really isn't much use to trying to get something that sounds good. funny thing is this...i had to build cabinets for all my speakers (6" rears and 4" fronts) cause my old speakers were like 2" fronts and 1x9" rears...i was too lazy to do it myself, so i went to tweeter to have some custom made...it cost me $100!!! twice as much as the speakers...now that's lame.
i bought a new reciever too, having only radio sucked really bad...so i prob made a mistake and went with sony...but they advertised fully custimizable passovers and all that, but after installin everything i don't get any low end outta my nice speakers (the 6" rears go down to 60hz), but they're cut out at like 110hz oh well...the powered sub in the same line costs $1,500. which is prob why the speakers were so cheap (cause ppl only buy subs nowadays). i tried my old radio only reciever and besides the radio noise, they sound way better than this sony garbage cause it actually doesn't filter out my low end
i thought about using the klipsch in cieling speakers as well, but they're rated at like 8ohms, and the most powerful car amp i found was rated for 4 ohms...i know u can get away with unmatched ohm ratings, but its not worth spending a $1,000 on amps (that will prob suck anyway).
so now im looking for some kind of "sub" to put under my chairs. bass in the trunk is so stupid and noisy, but i think small 4"? subs firing out the front and back underneath every seat would be way cool. any1 know of any low response speakers that are small? response is more important than volume, cause i'll be runnin 4 of em
ok im done, conclusion...car audio sucks