Professional Help with speaker choice.

I'm on a budget of about 130-150 for 4 speakers. 4" in the front and 6x8 in the back. The brands i'm choosing from are Boston Acoustics, Alpine, Polk Audio and MA Audio. Im more of an sq guy but i have a new 12" Kenwood KFC-W3011 being powered at about 350rms so they need to be loud enough and not distort here are the options.

Boston Acoustics: s45 and sx85 for $130.45 dealercostcaraudio.com

Alpine: sps 400 and spr57c (i know 5x7) for $134 dealercostcaraudio.com

Polk Audio: db401 and db571 for $144.21 sonicelectronix.com

MA Audio: y3040k and ma6829 for $89.98 sonicelectronix.com

i vote boston acoustics
i love them
good price too

Cool thanks what do you think would be runner up?

Boston Acoustics out of those choices you gave.

What do you think about the alpines?

Eh, Boston Acoustics are the best choice there by far. Runner up...for SQ the rest suck...

Alright thanks so that is:

Boston Acoustics: 2

Alpine: 0

Polk Audio: 0

MA Audio: 0

Ba

Haven't even heard of most of the others.

Well most of these were in my price range and had good review on sonicelectronix.com. What does everyone think about infinity?

Boston Acoustics is top notch

alpine sucks at making speakers for sq

and never really heard those other 2 before

Forbes32 wrote:

Well most of these were in my price range and had good review on sonicelectronix.com. What does everyone think about infinity?

I have Infinitys in my car and I love them. I have Kappas, but References are very nice speakers. Might also want to look into CDT audio or MB Quart. Really depends on what you want. MB has the sharpest highs, Infinitys will have sharper highs than CDT. Avoid Alpine, their speakers suck. Alpine HUs and amps are awesome though.

Boston Acoustics

Alright thanks so that is:

Boston Acoustics: 4

Polk Audio: 0

MA Audio: 0

Infinity: 1

CDT Audio and MB Quart are great recommendations, if they're in your price range. CDT will take the tops, and I'd put MB Quart probably just above Boston Acoustics, but only because I like sharp highs.

infinity are better than all of thoes you listed imo

02cougarman wrote:

infinity are better than all of thoes you listed imo

Alright thanks so that is:

Boston Acoustics: 4

Polk Audio: 0

MA Audio: 0

Infinity: 4

I've got infinity in my car, had them in there about 2 years, reference in the rear, kappa's up front (I think) sounds great to me, they're powered off the deck, and I have a 12" alpine type-r with a 1,200 watt hifonics amp, they keep up just fine (of course the amp is turned down about 50%)

Hey thanks alot i appreciate all the feedback. So now i have 5 votes infinity and 4 votes Bston Acoustics. Keep the opinions coming.

I would choose CDT's but for the brands you listed,I'd go with the Boston Acoustics.

Hey thanks that evens it up to: 5 votes boston and 5 votes infinity.

those 2 are your best bet doesn't really matter what you get now

Forbes32 wrote:

What do you think about the alpines?

The SPS are alpines bottom-tier speakers. They're okay, but certainly not bragging material. I had the SPS coax and eventually the SPS components in my first truck.

I'm running SPX series now (top tier just below F#1) and they're much cleaner and WAY more powerful.

Alright well today i went with the Boston Acoustics for 2 reasons. One they are less expensive than the infinity's and second I've never heard anyone say Bostons are bad or anything. Thanks a lot for all the input guys i appreciate it.

Ma audio>!!!!!!!!!

Alright well today i went with the Boston Acoustics for 2 reasons. One they are less expensive than the infinity's and second I've never heard anyone say Bostons are bad or anything. Thanks a lot for all the input guys i appreciate it.

Alright well today i went with the Boston Acoustics for 2 reasons. One they are less expensive than the infinity's and second I've never heard anyone say Bostons are bad or anything. Thanks a lot for all the input guys i appreciate it.

Alright well today i went with the Boston Acoustics for 2 reasons. One they are less expensive than the infinity's and second I've never heard anyone say Bostons are bad or anything. Thanks a lot for all the input guys i appreciate it.

Echo?

Lmao
nice

What?

Hey UPDATE! I got my speakers in the mail today and installed them myself. Thanks a lot for the help these sound really good and i'm overall happy. I dont know what infinity's sound like but these blow me away and i haven't even turned them up all the way yet thanks guys you rock!

Forbes32 wrote:

Hey UPDATE! I got my speakers in the mail today and installed them myself. Thanks a lot for the help these sound really good and i'm overall happy. I dont know what infinity's sound like but these blow me away and i haven't even turned them up all the way yet thanks guys you rock!

Give them some hours of playing at low volume before turning them up or you run the risk of lifting the spider off the landing.

cool thanks

PwrRngr wrote:

Give them some hours of playing at low volume before turning them up or you run the risk of lifting the spider off the landing.

i doubt he knows what that means...

02cougarman wrote:

PwrRngr wrote: Give them some hours of playing at low volume before turning them up or you run the risk of lifting the spider off the landing. i doubt he knows what that means...

Let the speakers play at a reasonable volume for a few hours before cranking on them. If you don't do this, you run the risk of ruining the speakers.

02cougarman wrote:

PwrRngr wrote: Give them some hours of playing at low volume before turning them up or you run the risk of lifting the spider off the landing. i doubt he knows what that means...

even if i didn't know car audio, RISK in a category of speakers would be easy enough to put 2 and 2 together and figure that he's talking about it could ruin the speaker