epicblue

My rear speakers blew out and I went shopping for new speakers. I was looking for something decent for the right price. So my first stop was Circuit City and everything was like 100.00 dollars and up except for some Jensen brand for 29.99 which is a budget brand. So I head over to Best Buy. 100.00 and up again. I gave up after those 2 stores and headed to Walmart to buy toilet paper. Whats the harm in checking there car electronics. Pioneer speakers for 67 dollars? Sweet. Picked them up and went home to install.

Product 6 by 9 TS-G971M Rear Speakers



New speakers boxed up.



I'm sure there not the best model from Pioneer but the price was nice.



Install



I really don't know if these speakers are stock but they were all cracked.



Cracked everywhere.



Memphis? Are these good? I have no idea. Mine are all beat up though.



Pretty easy install. Just 4 bolts holding down the speaker down.



I did have trouble fitting the covers back on. I had to take needle nose pliers and bend it a little cause the Pioneers were slightly bigger.

Overall I like the sound and I loved the price. It has a lot more bass with out a sub woofer. I Definitely recommend it for someone looking for a cheap speakers.

preludatic

nuts... ive trying to find some good fitting, cheap rear speakers for my lude as well. Got excited but I see your rear speakers are 6x9 for 5th gens. 4th gens are 6.5

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Rodmunch

Those Memphis are not OEM. Probably from the previous owner.

You might want to read about the AFBS (Acoustic Feed-Back System). There is a little black box under the passenger rear speaker, that's the AFBS brain/amp. It is only connected to the rear speakers.

I don't think it will damage your speakers, but the AFBS is designed to run 2 ohm rated speakers (the OEM ones) while most aftermarket speakers (including yours) are rated for 4 ohms. If you use an aftermarket head unit, it could potentially get damaged by the AFBS (this I'm not sure about). The front OEM speakers are rated at 4 ohms and not connected to the AFBS.

Also, the feedback part of the system might not work well with your speakers, possibly causing distorted sounding output. And, the AFBS combines the stereo signal into mono, meaning your rear speakers are in mono not stereo.

It is easy to bypass the AFBS. You just have to cut and splice the correct wires in the speaker wire harness before the AFBS. I don't know which wires it is off the top of my head. Try searching, it may have been posted here.
Or, you could just live with it and deal with it.

I forgot...the Polk dB series of 6x9's work well. Mine fit fine, but the magnet is a bit big and hits the trunk release spring when I shut it. Not really a problem though. You can find them on ebay or other online retailers for under $100/pair.

Found a good link:

Prelude Audio

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epicblue

Yeah I think the original owner already bypassed the AFBS cause when I took off the speaker there was a molex connector that was unplugged. I was wondering what that was. The wires were already made for me so I just cut the tips and spliced the new connections. Lucky me.

Rodmunch

Well then I wasted a good 5 minutes typing that up lol!

Yeah, it definitely sounds like he bypassed it already.

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jaelarks

afbs? is that in the 95 lude?

spin_r_g

Acoustic Feed Back System. No.

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jaelarks

thanks -

95 lude -pioneer deh 6000
- 4way pioneer front and rear
-rockford fosgate p500 amp + p2 12"