Originally Posted by SmutWanter
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...
Well, yea. Thats basically what i'm saying. I used the word "quality", but i guess it's how you look at it. To me a speaker with a very low power handling capability like say 10w RMS, IS by my defination low quality. This is because it will distort with any stereo thats got enough wattage to sound resonably good in a car where road noise demands a certain minimum amount of clean power. And there is really no decent quality stereo of any type who's sound wouldn't be compromised by the use of such speakers.
So yes, technically you're right in that it's not that they are made badly. but face it, thier lack of power handling capability for all intents and purposes does make them crap !