What is the best brand of speakers?

What is the best brand for a car head-unit, speakers, bass speakers, and apmlifiers?

• I am going to purchase a system for my truck (F-250). I need some help chosing the best/clean sounding speakers. What do you think is the best brand for a car head-unit, speakers, bass speakers, and apmlifiers? I dont need it to be too loud. but i do whant it to ble clean. (Anything besides JL Audio....list from good to bad) Thanks

• Answer:

  I've posted this before, but it should provide you with a some help. The components of a good car sound system would be as follows: The source (cd player, in-dash dvd/nav system, radio, tape player, etc.), the speakers, the subs, the amps, the parts/wiring. Also, depending on how big of a system, possibly a new battery or two and an alternator. Here are some of my recommendations as far as good brands. Deck: Eclipse, Pioneer (regular or premier), Alpine, Kenwood Excelon, Nakamichi (not the greatest looking, but great sound). Speakers: Polk Audio, Infinity, Eclipse, Pioneer Rev High end: Focal, Boston, MB Quart, Nakamichi Subs: JL Audio, MTX, Kicker, Eclipse, Audiobahn, Memphis, Hifonics, Diamond Audio, Fosgate (p3 and higher), RE Audio Amps: all the sub companies, plus, Precision Power, Crossfire, Cadence, Soundstream, US Amps Parts/Wiring: Monster, Tsunami, Streetwires, even Kicker and Fosgate make decent parts/wiring. Now if I had to choose, here would be my choices: Deck: Eclipse or Pioneer Speakers: Polk Audio, Infinity, or Eclipse Amps/Subs: JL Audio or MTX Wiring: Tsunami or Monster As far as the order in which to purchase (if you can't do it all at once) here would be my suggestion: First replace you speakers (stock stereo with good speakers sounds better then aftermarket stereo with stock speakers), Then replace the deck (it'll help the speakers, but it will also give you the foundation to build the rest of the system off of) Next, subs/amps/wiring (give you that extra bass that you need, make sure you use good wiring and the right size, capacitors if needed, important for system, also as far as the wiring, remember you will need another amp for speakers) Next, amp for speakers (speakers will play cleaner, tighter, more accurate, and louder - a must, especially with the subs) After that its all just accessories: i.e. satellite radio, navigation, dvd player, screens, etc. Now as far as where to get them, most of these companies will be available at Circuit City, BestBuy, Cardomain.com, Cruthfield.com. Others are only sold at authorized dealers (usually a local audio company), but you'll have to check out their websites in order to find the ones nearest you. As far as cost, I would say a decent FULL system would start around 1200 installed and then just go up from there. Now just new speakers and a deck, I'd say around 450 and up for a good setup completely installed. But in the end these are just my recommendations (based on quality and sound), like Sparky said only you can judge what you like. Everyone's ears are a little different so what sounds good to me may not sound good to you. Shop around at all the car audio dealers and take a listen, but make sure you take one of your cds with you so you can judge all of them with the same song (one that you are familiar with).