Alpine VS Focal - Speaker and Amplifier advice

[Allegiance]

Hi Guys,

I am looking to upgrade the speakers in my Polo and have narrowed it down to a couple types of speakers.

For the fronts I am trying to choose between:

Focal Polyglass 6.5-Inch Component

Alpine Type-X SPX-17REF

And for the rears:

Focal Polyglass 6.5-Inch Coaxial

Alpine Type-X SPX-17REF (using the tweeter mounting bridge to turn them into coaxial)

Alpine Type-R SPR-17C Coaxial

I also figured I would need to go for a amplifier to really make it worth while, however I am not really to sure on this. Any suggestions? I would like high level inputs, along with auto sensing since I am using the stock RCD310 head unit.

I am also open to other suggestions on the speakers.

Thanks@

[Spyda]

Theres other brands out there that give you more for the money, you dont have to pay a premium for the brand name. Looks on some car audio forums man.

[Allegiance]

Theres other brands out there that give you more for the money, you dont have to pay a premium for the brand name. Looks on some car audio forums man.

Do you have any suggestions?

[tanehy]

I have had just the stock speakers in my Tiguan (no amp) replaced with Focal Polyglass speakers and I am VERY happy, there is a noticeable difference in sound quality. Depends on what you want and the type of music you listen to I think. There is a lot of good technology that goes into Focal drivers but they do have a distinctive sound which to my ears tends to the dry, bright and lean side of reality. The biggest difference has been with the replacement of the stock tweeter in the Tiguan which was really not very good.

[Spyda]

Copy and Pasted from an old list i had saved, its missing a few other new top end brands. I heard good things about Crescendo and Micro Precision.

Adire
Alpine (head units, signal processors)
Arc Audio
Audax
Audio Control
Brax
Butler Audio
CD Technologies (CDT)
Diamond Audio
Digital Designs (DD)
DLS
DynAudio
Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)
Esoteric Audio
Focal
Harrison Labs
Image Dynamics (ID)
Infinity Kappa/Kappa Perfect components
JL Audio (subs, XR components, slash series amps)
KEF Kar components
Kove
Luxman
MB Quart
McIntosh Laboratories
MMATS
Morel
Ohio Alternator
Orion
OZ Audio
Pioneer Premiere (head units)
Precision Power (PPI) (Art series amps, old)
Rainbow
Resonant Engineering (RE)
Rockford Fosgate (older 1980s and 1990s models)
Sinfoni
Streetwirez
Stinger
Treo
US Amps
Xtant
Zapco

[Cousin]

Looks on some car audio forums man.

Would checking out VW Car Audio and Electronics be one of them?


M

[G-rig]

Maybe have a search in the car audio section and on Mobileelectronics.com.au.

There are other brands to consider like Dynaudio, DLS etc. Crescendo is being hyped up a bit on the net (and is apparently just one guy importing them so not sure how good support would be) and havent heard them myself.

Main thing to know is which ones fit in and what kind of sound you like.

[Ben J]

I browse through Mobile Electronics Australia occasionally. Can find some decent deals in the trading part too sometimes.

edit: fail. i thought that was a different forum to the one just mentioned xD

[Spyda]

Would checking out VW Car Audio and Electronics be one of them?


M

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[rhythm flavour]

I would also echo the earlier comments and suggest you consdier what other options are out there.

The focal speakers and alpine amps will be good, but you will probably find differences between the brands that you may prefer, particularly at your price point. Personally, I have always found the focals to be a good performing speaker, but have found the tweeter to be a bit shrill and harsh, particularly at loud volume.

I would also consider not bothering with replacing the rear speakers and just running a small sub in the boot. This will field a far better overall result, but would depend on whether you can spare any boot space.