Thread: Can I replace the Monsoon speakers?

I want to keep my factory headunit, and simply replace the Monsoon speakers. I have the 9-speaker system in a GP GXP. I know everyone will say to get a new HU, and a new amplifier. However, does anyone have experience with this? I've been doing some research, and Infinity makes some 2-ohm speakers which seem like they would work since the amp is 2-ohm. A link for one of them is here: LINK. If I did this, should I disconnect the tweeter from the rear speakers? Also, if anyone knows the part numbers for the stock rear Monsoons I'd really like to know! I know they are on gmpartsdirect somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You'd have to replace either the head unit or the amp because theres more likely than not a built in EQ curve to make the most of those speakers.

Also, one inch soft dome means no high end.

Originally Posted by CTKGP09

if you are keeping the stock HU and amp, be sure that every speaker u replace has the same impedance and the new one to avoid frying your amp. as far as speakers go, i recommend kicker, memphis, polk, and pioneer.

The correct answer is don't go lower.

Not THAT important, but don't go lower. 4 ohms nominal impedance would be fine as well. just wouldnt get as loud granted the sensitivity ratings were the same.

I have the reference 6020cs in the front, a 3022cf for the centerand polk momo 6x9 in the rear. Put the polks in 3 years ago and replaced the fronts with the infinitys 1 year ago. The sound difference is amazing. I still have the factory receiver and amp.

Also the rear is a woofer and a midrange. There is not tweeter in the rear. The polk momos i used are a 2way with seperate leads to the woofer and midrange. I just wired those like the factory setup. With the front speakers I orginally didn't use the crossover but the treble was was way to over powering. I had to wire it using the -3db connections on the crossover. The tweeter is the only thing wired to the crossover.

you dont want a tweeter in the rear... it'd just be ratarded...

"Also, one inch soft dome means no high end"

Most decent 1" soft domes exceed 20KHz. Is Matt a dog now?

Find me the graphs.

go.

"Find me the graphs.

go."

No.
But most highend tweeters were, and are soft 1" domes. A/D/S competition tweeters were 1". Sorry but your wrong. Again.

With no empirical evidence? I think not...

Edit: Is it not ironic the first speaker i look up looks like this:

http://www.tymphany.com/files/produc...C25SG15-04.pdf

I'd love to get my hands on some of these though:

http://www.tymphany.com/files/produc...T25SC60-04.pdf

Matt : you forgot to mention theres little above 12KHz in most music, and close to nothing above 15KHz. And forget about caring above 12KHz in any automotive app.

I run 2" ring-dome tweeters in the house that are good to around 15Khz. I'd rather have less crossover points then be able to reproduce material I never have.

Well the second you're off axis you can't get any speaker to produce sound that high.

Also most people lsiten to MP3's so any and all content above 16 kHz is cut out. AAC is 18 kHz IRRC so its slightly better in that regard.

All really depends if you can hear anything that high anymore.

A much better place to focus on is the 300 - 5000 Hz range. Most people just get sub bass and just say "f*ck it, we'll do it live".

Originally Posted by chadw77

I have the reference 6020cs in the front, a 3022cf for the centerand polk momo 6x9 in the rear. Put the polks in 3 years ago and replaced the fronts with the infinitys 1 year ago. The sound difference is amazing. I still have the factory receiver and amp.

Also the rear is a woofer and a midrange. There is not tweeter in the rear. The polk momos i used are a 2way with seperate leads to the woofer and midrange. I just wired those like the factory setup. With the front speakers I orginally didn't use the crossover but the treble was was way to over powering. I had to wire it using the -3db connections on the crossover. The tweeter is the only thing wired to the crossover.

Thanks for the info! That's exactly the news I wanted to hear. Now I can start with the speakers, and upgrade the rest if it's not enough.

Doing some research so I'm bumping this and hoping for some help. So I need to replace my front blown speaker on my 07 monsoon system. I need to have a minimum of 4 ohms impedence. I see some that say the speaker wire has 2 ohms combined with the speakers 2 ohms gives me 4 ohms of total impedence. Can I count the impedence of the speaker wire? Do I need to have a minimum wattage capability for the front speaker too?