speaker help!!

I have 2 12" visonik subs in the trunk and they are fine. But the speakers all around the car just dont have any bass and when i turn the bass up they sound like crap. If i mute the subs there still is no bass on the other four speakers. do i need to get new speakers? If so can i have some suggestions, i am kind of new to all of this. Thanks

[battistoni21]

i would def get some new speakers..... i have the alpine type-R 6x9s and i think for $100 shipped, they arent bad at all..... they hit nice, without my subs hooked up..... i still gotta mess with my headunit

[lilfee504]

change the speakers dude...its prolly factory so get some memphis speakers all around...trust me u will be satisfied

[SweetNLow]

if you are running subs you shouldnt need the rest of your speakers to be putting out bass. you should be getting your high's and mids out of them. stock speakers are pretty good but upgrading never hurts

The other thing is that when i have the bass turned down to -12, and the subs on, the speakers in the car when the bass hits it just sounds bad, but the vocals and stuff are fine i just dont know if you can completly shut the bass off on the other speakers some how?

[King Asoka]

well, if you have a good deck it will have a built in crossover that will limit the amount of lower end frequencys sent to the speakers. If not, then your kinda out of luck.

If you want it to sound good you have to upgrade.

Deck, amp, speakers.

there are lots of choices. Choose your budget and then go look what you can get. Online retailers provide a good discount over stores, just make sure you do your reseach.

The distortion can be casued by many things. lack of power, too much power, poor frequency response......

Do you have an aftermarket deck, is so which one?
Are you powering the speakers directly from the deck?

I agree with the above statement. Even some crappy decks like my sony limits the amount of bass sent to the interior speakers when it senses that a sub is connected. This is a good thing. It helps protect your speakers from hitting frequencies it cant hit. Which if you DO have stock speakers this is a REALLY good thing. Preventing you from spending money replacing speakers. But if you want your stuff to sound good do it anyway!

Jeremy

Subs are made for low frequency ~30 hz to ~80 hz your mids or "other speakers" should be hitting any frequency above that and same goes for tweeters for the really high stuff.

You should be able to adjust the Mid level on your deck seperately from your lows and highs. Turn your subs all the way down or off if you can. Then adjust the volume you know you can play your subs at without distortment. From that point adjust your mids so to the point where you can still hear vocals clearly without distortment from to much midbass. Then do the same to your Highs.

Once everything is set adjust the sub level back to where it was, go out and listen to the sub to make sure its not distorting and everything should be good from there on out. Dont turn the volume up past where you have everything set and you shouldnt harm any of your equipment.

Aftermarket speakers are definatly a must if you want good clean sound. Factory is ok... but definatly not even close to near what a decent aftermarket speaker can sound like.