What’s are the best speakers for a car ?

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So I’m looking to upgrade my car speakers for better sound and clarity, as well as a good bass to replace my stock speakers on my 10th gen Honda civic, they are already giving up I can tell when they make certain screeching sounds when I play music, I’ve heard good things about jbl, but I’ve had others tell me otherwise, what do you guys recommend I should get for front and back door as well as the 2 behind the seats

Eat Drink Smoke Sleep Repeat · Answer

Overall, most aftermarket car speakers are good. They are much better than a stock speaker. It just depends on what is running it. A high quality aftermarket speaker won't sound good if it's NOT properly set up or if it's running on a poor quality amplifier.

For bass, you need a subwoofer. That's gonna be your low end. A speaker and tweeter is just technically for the mids and highs.

I don't know what type of money you have. But if you have a good amount of money, you can blow into car audio. Here are some great aftermarket speakers.
 
Rockford Fosgate
Soundqubed
CT Sounds
JL Audio
B2 Audio

MrWakeup · Answer

As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, same thing with sound.  Everyone has an opinion and what they think sound good.

JBL is ok.  Middle of the road brand.  Nothing wrong with them.

Some better speaker brands, you might look at Morel, Focal, Rainbow Car Audio, AudioFrog, Scanspeak are all relatively decent brands.  Of course they will have entry level to pro level sets of speakers.
I personally recommend just upgrading the door speakers for now, as it seems that perhaps your speakers are blown.  I would highly recommend going Component speakers vs coaxial or triaxial speakers. But that's my preference.  For ease of install, probably coaxial or triaxial speakers would be easier to install though.

From an audiophile standpoint, I would say it is best to just get front doors as timing and alignment for all speakers would be difficult if you do not have the right tools/deck/dsp to set the timing adjustments. If you are just an average joe trying to increase the sound and give you better than what you had before, then almost any entry level of speakers from the brands listed would be great.

Also something to consider, that if you had factory speakers in the Honda, and are now going with aftermarket, then you may need an amplifier to adequately power the speakers as well.  If you need more Bass, then you may also need a subwoofer and an amplifier to adequately power the subwoofer as well.

What’s are the best speakers for a car ?

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