harry newton wrote:
He who is Scott Dorsey said on 5 Dec 2017 14:14:38 -0500:

Whereas you can get generic 6x9s from Parts Express for around $5 each,
for a total of $20 the set, and they probably won't be any worse than the
originals.

Price is never an indication of quality - it's just an indication of what
other people are willing to pay - which - marketing knows - is highly
influenced by marketing garbage.

So, a 6x9" 20W $5 Parts Express speaker might or might not be as good as a
6x9" 20W $300 speaker at Toyota which itself might or might not be as good
as a 6x9" 20W $25 speaker at Crutchfields.

They're all dreadful. It doesn't matter which one you buy, it will be
dreadful. So buy the cheapest one or the most convenient one and don't
worry about it.

While I doubt the $300 per speaker at Toyota is a fair price, how can I
tell, a priori, if the $5 speaker at Parts Express will be as good (or bad)
as the $25 speaker at Crutchfields?

Is there any way for a consumer to make an intelligent speaker decision?

No, because it's basically not possible to get decent sound in a car anyway.
And even if it were, it wouldn't be possible to do it with the typical
full-range whizzer-cone speakers that we're talking about. So buy the cheapest
ones you can get and it won't sound any worse than it did when the car was
new.
--scott

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