like the title says, do you guys prefer 6x9's or 6.5's for the rear of our cars?

i've currently got blown out stock 6.5's in my car so i can't say much for the quality of those. i know we can use either 6.5 or 6x9 aftermarkets speakers for the rear of our car. i was wondering if any of you guys had expereience with both types and had a preference. i talked to some of my other friends that're into car audio and they said they preferred the sounds of 6.5's over 6.9's. something about how the non-circular shape of the 6x9's doesn't sound as good. i know the greater surface area of a 6x9 gives it a slightly lower range but based on the specs of speakers i've looked at, it's usually a fairly small difference when compared to a 6.5 of the same line.

so yea, which do you guys prefer?

Poll result (14 votes) 6x9 (4 votes) Vote 6.5 (10 votes) Vote

I have 6x9's in my car and they sound pretty good. so i guess i'll go with 6x9's

6.5's for quality, 6x9's for quantity. Quality is always better.

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-marc

But, will it look different from a view outside th grill?

And, one more questions, I saw some speakers with some nice grill.... can we remove our stock grill?

thanks!

you can't see much through the grill. but then i have stock black speakers too. if you have something flashy it might show more. i doubt it'd be that noticeable. you can probably take off the stock grill if you really wanted to but i think you'd hafta modify a lot to make it look nice with the aftermarket grills. think about how the back seat of our cars is constructed. the panel covering the speaker comes off and the speaker is bolted to the frame of the car. aftermarket speaker grills are usually made for surface mounting like on the rear deck of a car. you would either need to mount the speaker to the ;anel (not a good idea) or find a way to spearately mount the grill on the panel. that particular panel is very curvy (as is the stock grill) so it would probably be difficult to mount an aftermarket grill without modification.

-marc

ic... thanks a lot !

6.5's---but get a sub if you don't already have one...

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if u have a sub, definitely go with a 6.5"

Anyone know anyone who can help me tune this in the Pittsburgh area (Greensburg)?

I can see my speakers pretty well. they aren't the factory black though. I also painted the back grills black to match other trim in my car. I agree that it would take quite a bit to make it look good with those aftermarket grills so unless you REALLY want them showing, just use stock

you cannot beat a round speaker for mids, or just overall

I just wish my car was as fast as it was loud. people tell me i should use my sub to push it, it might go faster.