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Yes it does.. The paper cones that came out aren't the best.

Those Alpine G series are a good deal. Not the greatest speakers, but for the money they're a brilliant replacement. Sounds tighter and brighter now, especially in the back.
 
@MrDeeJay Like a boss :cool:

Looks good! If I may comment, it would be better to use red/black speaker cables for future reference to polarity issues! ;)
 
Yes that would make identifying a bit easier. It's difficult to see in the picture but there is a red stripe down the side of the positive wire. I just need to remember to check before I upgrade the speakers again..:eek:
 
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UPDATE..

OK, so after driving around a bit I find myself fading the sound to the back to hear the new Alpines better, so it got me into a little switching round and with the help of an SPL meter I took some dB readings.
First thing of note, all 4 of my door speakers were exactly the same, therefore we can conclude that the power (watts) going to the rears is less.

I used a lossless audio encryption of Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin). The dynamic range in this piece of music is massive. EQ was set to neutral and volume was half way (22). I took 2 readings with the meter on the armrest in the middle of the car, first facing to the front (fwd), then facing to the rear (bk).
I did both sets on their own, then a combined reading of all 4.

Alpine in the rears with the stocks in the front readings:-
Alpine 70dB (fwd) & 74dB (bk)
Stock 82dB (fwd) & 78dB (bk)
Both 82dB (fwd) & 80dB (bk)

Alpine up front with the stock now in the rear:-
Alpine 82dB (fwd) & 78dB (bk)
Stock 70dB (fwd) & 74dB (bk)
Both 82dB (fwd) & 80dB (bk)

So. No difference in sound level by switching the speaker, however, the Alpines did sound better in the front, obviously there's more power going to the fronts.
The solution?????
Well..... I bought a pair of JBL's for the rears..:oops:

LOL.. readings as follows:-

Alpine front, JBL rears.

Alpine 82dB (fwd) & 78dB (bk)
JBL 72dB (fwd) & 76dB (bk)
Both 82dB (fwd) & 81dB (bk)

The JBL's have made a minor volume difference, but the main thing is all round sound is much better...

Now for an amp and more speakers.........:eek:
 
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MrDeeJay said:
So. No difference in sound level by switching the speaker
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That's a bit weird.. The alpines should not be as loud as the stock speakers, as they are 60 watts RMS and require more power to be driven, comparing to somewhere around 20-40 that the stock ones are.. :rolleyes:

Edit: Anyhoo it's good to know that 60 watts can be driven just fine without an amp.. How do the alpines behave at MAX volume? They should hold their ground easily..
 
That's what I thought. But it's the Ohms that count. Resistance is the key.
The JBL's get round this by using dual coils. Overall giving a percieved 2.3ohms resistance as opposed to the Stock and the Alpines that are both 4ohms. 20w/40w nominal/max for the stock speakers. 60/180 for the Alpines.
It's the difference in resistance that's given the small increase in volume.

Both the Alpines and the JBL's sound so much better when you raise the volume. My daughter and I sat in the garage listening to tunes tonight. :D

I'm a bit of an audiophile though. I'm sure I'll get more speakers soon.
 
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MrDeeJay said:
That's what I thought. But it's the Ohms that count. Resistance is the key.
The JBL's get round this by using dual coils. Overall giving a percieved 2.3ohms resistance as opposed to the Stock and the Alpines that are both 4ohms. 20w/40w nominal/max for the stock speakers. 60/180 for the Alpines.
It's the difference in resistance that's given the small increase in volume.

Both the Alpines and the JBL's sound so much better when you raise the volume. My daughter and I sat in the garage listening to tunes tonight. :D

I'm a bit of an audiophile though. I'm sure I'll get more speakers soon.
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I may pay you some monies and leave you my car at some point to do this to mine... haha!!
 
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Don't our cars have tweeters in the dash? If so, did you change them when you replaced the front door speakers?
 
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Don't our cars have tweeters in the dash? If so, did you change them when you replaced the front door speakers?
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They do have tweeters in the dash indeed, but it doesn't look like he changed them. When the door speakers are 2-way there is no need to mess with the tweeters in the front dash, imo.
 
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They do have tweeters in the dash indeed, but it doesn't look like he changed them. When the door speakers are 2-way there is no need to mess with the tweeters in the front dash, imo.
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I was thinking more about the crossovers that I assume are installed in-line with the tweeters. Again, assuming they are there, they would be messing with the sound going to the fronts.

I wonder how it would sound with a really nice set of splits (component speakers) up front and some nice mono 6.5" in the back. So basically the same setup as it currently has, but with decent speakers instead of the paper cone rubbish. Probably don't need any more than that for a car of this size, unless you enjoy listening to some serious doof-doof.
 
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That would be a very good setup yes, basically that what hyundai offers as upgrade (mid-range imo but still).
 
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That would be a very good setup yes, basically that what hyundai offers as upgrade (mid-range imo but still).
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Interesting that they decided to go with a 3-way speaker in the rear. I think mono would do the trick. Tweeters will provide enough high range for the entire car.
 
Receiving mine in max 2 weeks. Will be the first one installing it according to Hyundai :D
 
I'm thinking about adding audison system I took out out of my old i30.
Everything is put back into the boxes and awaits better days :)

For front system I would use - audison voce AV K6.
Rears - prima apx 6.5
Subwoofer I have is audison voce AV10
Amp is audison lrx 5.1k but that amp is too massive to ga back into N.

For new amp I think I will go with audison prima AP5.9 bit.
That is sound processor with integrated 5ch amp, made to intergate with factory head units.

Speaker adapter will be CAD designed and 3D printed… again :)

This is system from my old i30:

Back in the days when i was in dB drag I held Croatian record of 146,7 dB with 740W of measured power. 750W was upper limit for my class.
It was done by old pioneer type-r subwoofer and rockford fosgate T5002 amp.
At one time, car had more than 150dB with JBL GTO24001 amp :) :)
Good days.
 
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Have you installed it? I am waiting on mine as well, should arrive next week, hopefully.
 
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