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Originally Posted by CTA_35 I've the same HU and contemplating to get JL C1 650 components for both Front & Rear doors of my Honda City.
Would you minding sharing the below details - how these components pair with 5290 HU and the overall improvement you achieved over stock setup.
- Felt the need to add an Amp to extract more from these speakers?
- Did you audition any other speakers before deciding on these JL?.
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HI CTA_35
The combination of JL 650 components with Pioneer 5290 will give you sound quality which is very tight, bright and clear (provided the source is good).
The dullness felt in stock and low budget speakers is totally absent here. I recommend to go for components only and not co-axials.
My car was basic variant, so didn't had audio setup. But this combination of course, can definitely not be compared to majority of stock setups because the HU really plays true sound compared to frequency-altered stock HU and components produce tight bass.
I hadn’t done audition for speakers and neither heard sound of this price range aftemarket speakers. I had Skoda Kodaiq 2019 with Canton Subwoofer as daily drive for 11 months; had boston ovals (6”x9”), sony coaxials (6.5”), JBL bass-tube (12”), Accoudio bass-tube in my previous cars; have listened some stock setups including Skoda Laura (4 speakers+4 tweeters) 2012, C 200d 2018, A3 25 TFSi 2017, TATA Tiago JBL (4 speakers+4 tweeters) 2021 setup and some more.
As far as my experience; with 6.5” stock and other speakers (low budget speakers), you will get bass, maybe very big bass but it may be hollow, which can only be heard and not felt (vibrations/thump) (physical limitations of size) and not tight at all and dull sound. Equal budget stock speaker will give you more or equal sound quality and but the bass may definitely not be tight.
JL 650 components will give you absolutely tight, with awesome and sweet sufficiently deep thump. JL 650 components are truly to go for its tight & sweet bass quality. I think the quality of bass is outstanding for 6.5” speakers. (JL 650 co-axials have disappointing bass quality and I am regretting with my purchase for rear doors due to the bass quality offered by components in comparison).
I am yet to install amplifier and experiencing wide range of bass thumps with different tracks. Although, without amplifier, it will produce equally tight bass, but some tracks will give the bass which will shatter doors and some will be so less that at low volumes, the road noise will cancel it. Although the sound quality without amplifier is very good (beyond my expectation), bright, clear and surround.
I feel the need to install amplifier to get that awesome tight bass from components uniformly with every track, most probably in Diwali (to fulfill the itch to spend money)
Last edited by S1200 : 29th September 2023 at 18:41.
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