I am replacing my stock speakers in my Buick century with higher quality after market speakers. The front doors are 5 1/4 inch speakers and the rear deck holds 6x9 inch speakers. I am replacing both with Polk audio 5 1/4's and 6x9's. Altogether I'm paying about $170.00 an I'm buying from www.crutchfield.com. I have heard that these speakers sound a lot better with an amplifier powering them. I don't know much about amplifiers so I would like to know what would be a good, reasonably priced amplifier to power these speakers with.
2007-03-21 10:29:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Audio
10-100 watts RMS for the 6x9's and 4-45 watts RMS for the 5 1/4
2007-03-21 10:39:35 · update #1
I have a kicker zx and an sx and am prettty happy with them. They are a decently priced, and so far no problems. Crutchfields has pretty good customer service. They should be able to give you some different options.
heres an option for a 4 channel on http://www.crutchfield.com/S-BUjfWxZO5xJ/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=120&I=206ZX3504
and one 2 channel for the 5 1/4"
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-BUjfWxZO5xJ/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=120&I=113KAC6202
and one 2 channel for the 6x9's
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-BUjfWxZO5xJ/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=120&I=489AP600
I'd go with the single 4 channel to keep it looking clean if it was me. hope this helps a little
2007-03-21 10:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by hlind28 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see alot of questions asking what kind of amp people should get. How can a question be answered when all suitable amps are good. In your case its hard. You need a four channel amp to run 4 speakers. howevever you can't buy 4 by 100w rms cos that will blow your 5 and 1/4 but 45w rms will probably peak the 100 watters before they should causing them to heat up and eventually crackle. You probably should have thought of your speaker choice more wisely or you can get 2, 2 channel amps with nominal (rms) power ratings. As for what choice? just stay away from Sony and you will be right (only for car products).
2007-03-21 11:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by Keith B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a small 4 channel amplifier should do it around 100 to 200 wats
2007-03-21 10:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by enano 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the speaker wattage rating, I'd say go with a 500 watt amp but again, check your speaker rating first.
2007-03-21 10:35:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋