yea, i've been amazed at the way honda puts such crappy speakers in thier cars. the speakers in my 2001 civic in the front were the oddest pieces of crap i've ever seen. they had no magnet and looked like piezos, yet i never heard of full range piezos. the sucked beyond sucking.Like you i looked at the rears in my new accord and was amazed at the microscopic magnets on those junky "speakers". The stereo sounds much better than the civic, but for christsakes honda, put some $10 speakers in there instead of $2 speakers !!!! Seriously........those speakers can be had for literally about $2-5 at most electronics shops. The accord stereo isn't bad at all, and it seems beyond stupid to stifle an otherwise decent stereo to save $5 or 10 bucks per car during production. Just idiotic IMO. It wouldn't bother me so much if i could just buy some decent speakers to replace this crap, but they had to go and design it so that you have to remove the rear deck to replace them ! What honda knows about sound could be stuffed into a thimble.