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Old 05-29-2013, 04:05 PM
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Looking to put new polks in the front dash and rear bar. I have a 2011 2 door JK without infinity sound upgrade. Was going to get four Polk Audio DB651s Slim-Mount 6.5-Inch
Coaxial Speakers.

Do I need to go with component speakers in front and replace tweeter speakers and 6.5 inch ones. Or can I leave the tweeters in dash and just replace 6.5 inch woofer with the polk Coaxial Speakers?

I thought I could go with coaxial up front and leave tweeters alone but thought I would ask the JK'ers out there to be sure?

Also want to go with an alpine head unit and power pack alpine amp that can run off head unit alpine power pack KTP-445a? Any experience out there with this set up?

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Originally Posted by Yetialan
Looking to put new polks in the front dash and rear bar. I have a 2011 2 door JK without infinity sound upgrade. Was going to get four Polk Audio DB651s Slim-Mount 6.5-Inch
Coaxial Speakers.

Do I need to go with component speakers in front and replace tweeter speakers and 6.5 inch ones. Or can I leave the tweeters in dash and just replace 6.5 inch woofer with the polk Coaxial Speakers?

I thought I could go with coaxial up front and leave tweeters alone but thought I would ask the JK'ers out there to be sure?

Also want to go with an alpine head unit and power pack alpine amp that can run off head unit alpine power pack KTP-445a? Any experience out there with this set up?

Thanks
Can't answer your specific head unit/amp question, but you will want component speakers up front and coaxial in the sound bar. You will regret not replacing the stock tweeter, and you don't want coaxials in the dash pointing to your knees.
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Originally Posted by Patman
Can't answer your specific head unit/amp question, but you will want component speakers up front and coaxial in the sound bar. You will regret not replacing the stock tweeter, and you don't want coaxials in the dash pointing to your knees.
OK thanks

Why wouldn't you want coax pointing at knees?
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Originally Posted by Yetialan

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Why wouldn't you want coax pointing at knees?
For the same reason you would not want your speakers in you're living room facing the wall instead of you! Haha. Oooops. Unless you have the Bose 901 "direct/reflecting" speakers that are designed to bounce off the wall then reflect sound to you. But at $10,000, most people opt out of Bose insanity well below that price point. Hah.

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