how important are rear deck speakers in an overall system? i have replaced my stock fronts with components and still have stock rears. just wondering if i should spend a lot of money in getting some good ones or save my money and buy inexpensive ones. i heard that the rear speakers are just fillers and the front speakers are the most important. any ideas?

 

You heard right...:thumbup: If you really want to replace them, don't spend too much...

 

If you have the money, spend up to as much as you did for your fronts, but not more. The fronts are the priority. Replacing your stocks is still probably a good idea though, atleast to something that doesn't have a paper cone or something.

 

so i should just buy some decent, but not too expensive ones? will i even notice any difference if i replace my stock ones? i replaced the fronts with components and i hear a clear difference.

 

the only reason i suggest buying a nice set of rear speakers is for anyone sitting in the back seats...

I don't run any rear speakers and just pulled them out and the subs play through those openings.

 

I think what everyone is trying to say is that you won't notice the rears nearly as much as the fronts because you'll be sitting in the front and because of the acoustics of the car the rears tend to get drowned out. They do make some difference but don't make them your priority. What you should do however is stick to the same brand name of speaker because companies all have different approaches to sound.

I personally put the same speaker (coaxial though) in the rear just because I had the money and I tend to balance with a bit more rear coming through. I put Alpine Type-Rs in the front and rear. My alternative would have been to put Type-Ss in the back. They're one step down from the Type-Rs.

 

the reason i say no rear speakers at all are for a couple different reasons.
1- your car plays STEREO music. stereo is played in a two channel signal (right and left). so 4 speakers would be redundant right?
2- when you listen to a band for example, sounds come only in front of you. so why would you like to hear audio coming from behind you? this would ruin the potential good imaging you can have in a car.
3- along with the imaging. have the four speakers would be hard to time align them or make them plausible to your ears. sound travels at a certain speed (i forget how fast) but so with that idea, the rear speakers hit your ears after your fronts do. higher end head units try to combat this with time alignement.

 

i don't know about your first 2 points, but for number 3, the speed of sound is about 340 meters per second. Considering you are like 2 meters at most away from the back speaker, i doubt any human ear could tell.

 

should i still stick with inexpensive speakers if my headunit has time correction?? (alpine unit)

 

you may not think so, but listen with your eyes closed with 2 speakers versus 4 speakers...

there is a clear difference