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Hi Everyone,

Has anyone changed the speakers in their NB8B? I would like to change mine, but don't want to install anything that means changing the appearance of the interior.

There's plenty of room in the doors and behind the trim for fitting different speakers. I've got 6.5inch splits in my doors and to look at no one would ever know the difference. It's very easy to get a new set of decent speakers in without changing the look of the interior.

I have 8inch Phillips speakers behind the std door card in mine - bolt straight in with no mods.

Clearwater 8" splits. Screw straight in, no mods to the door or door card. The speakers even use the same screw mounting locations as the factory stuff.

what they said.

i spent my afternoon yesterday removing all the sticky goo from the plastic sleeve, will be dynamatting it up very shortly.. improves the sound by much, and you can't see it

haha same here, i will be installing the 6.5" response kevlar splits (they gone down from 300 to 155 by the way at jaycar) alpine amp and dynamat the heck out of it this weekend...

just some info, 8" fits, but for anything smaller (except 5x7" s which are factory speaker size) you will need to make some spacers on the speaker holes.

Use the search and you will find many treads about it...

silvermiata wrote:haha same here, i will be installing the 6.5" response kevlar splits (they gone down from 300 to 155 by the way at jaycar) alpine amp and dynamat the heck out of it this weekend...

just some info, 8" fits, but for anything smaller (except 5x7" s which are factory speaker size) you will need to make some spacers on the speaker holes.

Use the search and you will find many treads about it...

that's the setup i got but with a smal kenwood amp

we'll have a sound off once we're both done

sliq wrote:

silvermiata wrote:haha same here, i will be installing the 6.5" response kevlar splits (they gone down from 300 to 155 by the way at jaycar) alpine amp and dynamat the heck out of it this weekend...

just some info, 8" fits, but for anything smaller (except 5x7" s which are factory speaker size) you will need to make some spacers on the speaker holes.

Use the search and you will find many treads about it...

that's the setup i got but with a smal kenwood amp

we'll have a sound off once we're both done

I wouldn't mind attending the sound off.
Let me know where and when.

Benny wrote:I wouldn't mind attending the sound off.
Let me know where and when.

i'd be keen to listen to your setup benny

sounds like a good deal...

tickets are available through ticketek people...

As there so many of us that like our hi-fi's, perhaps some of the clubs should stage a sound-off day so we can all get together and listen to each others sound systems, and pick up some tips and tricks along the way.

I'm sure that there are many guys here on the forum that would like to improve their set-ups, but would like to hear what improved speakers and amps etc. sound like in the real world and see how things like USB interfaces work for car stereos as well as how to input your i-Pod to best effect.

How about it club presidents and club captains?