Im looking to upgrade my speakers in my 2001 F-150 single cab. I was looking through my Crutchfield catalog and saw that component speakers are pretty pricey. Would it be worth it to buy component speakers over regular speakers? And if I did would i have to run an amp to the speakers alone or could i still use my CD player (which is not stock) Thanks for any and all help!

 

This is question you will get a couple varying opinions on, and there is a lot of relativity to it too.

The idea is that if set up correctly and tuned properly, a component system can much more accurately represent the sound. A lot of people feel there is no difference. With that said, my personal choice is always to use components. I find my ears just prefer the sound.

What I mean by relatively is that the components your looking at were probably higher end then the coaxials/braxials on there. A high end coaxial and a high end component are relatively close in price (although you won't see coaxials up in the uber-sq range), but high end coaxials aern't very common.

 

I agree with the previous post. I prefer Components myself. I feel the seperation of sound is much more distinct and that you get more clarity out of your system. As for your amping question, I don't feel like you get the most for any after market speaker you buy if you cant amp it. If there wasn't a differnece everyone would run their speakers off their HU.

 

if u have the ablility to add an amp that will be better sounding. if ur like me and already running 2 big azz amps, u cant... then buy some high quality speakers. i bought some of rockford competion level speakers for my front doors and they were unbeivable

Matt

 

well if i did buy the speakers would it defeat the purpose to just buy one set right now on leave my back set of stock speakers in? or should i just hold off and wait and do it all at once?

 

id recomend doing them all... having half sets will be diff in quality...

thats my .02

Matt

 

I know of lots of high end systems with stock rear speakers. They are used for "rear fill", are usually run off the HU, and are faded almost completely off. The idea is that rear speakers ruin the imaging and soundstage if they are too loud. This is especially true of high frequencies. Your front speakers should handle almost all the "business" in a nice system, and coupled with the proper subs would make a nice set-up. Then again, people are so accustomed to having sound come from behind them, they think it's good. But it really does muck things up. But some people don't want to get that technical. You have to do what you want. I bet if most people would listen for an extended period of time to a really nice set up with no rear speakers, they would come to love it. Of course the speaker companies would be pissed.

 

Components IMO are well worth the money. But not to get the $1000 per pair ones, unless you're doing a major sound system and will be competing with it. I would recommend Alpine, Polk, and Infinity for component speakers, without having to pay an arm and a leg.