Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsOk for the money
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2015
I bought these to replace the rear door speakers in an Alfa 156. I decided to go with these because I believed the low 32 hertz frequency response may have been plausible due to twin cone design.
In practice, I have found the sound to be inferior to the OE speakers. The tone is a little less natural and any music which may use a low bass which may be felt at higher volumes is no longer really felt but now simply heard.
Clearly, frequency response figures do not accurately portray a speaker's sound image. I'd say there is probably no resonance below about 100 hertz and even what is considered mid bass is rather weak. At this point, I should mention I was not running any separate amplifiers but the head unit was a Pioneer DEH-2800MP (US market radio) which quite frankly produced a better sound than any circa £100 offering from Sony or Clarion. In short, what these speakers did was return the sound to that with the rubbish OE head unit.
I knew these were a cheap replacement and would never have the high frequency response of a 2 way speaker. My angle was in this instance purely to try to preserve if not upgrade the factory set up.
On that front, I gives me no pleasure to say these speakers miss the mark. In fairness though, the bass reproduction in probably no worse than many other non high-grade similarly sized speakers.