I don't think that it's just Honda that puts crap factory speakers in cars. I've changed out Toyota, and Nissan factory speakers, and they are just as bad. It's not the quality of these speakers stink, it that they put in lower wattage speakers in their cars than what stores sell, so the thresholds of these speakers are a lot lower. In some cases the factory stereos that are put in only supply max outputs that compare to the max outputs to their speakers, so if you were to buy aftermarket speakers with higher wattage even you would still only get the lower output that the factory radio can put out...