I have a 2004 f-150 XL. I want to put some good components in my Truck. I'm looking at just 6.5 components up front. No rear speakers. I have a JL 300/4. 150 of those watts are bridged to my JL 13w1v2. I have 75 watts per speaker left over which i think is enough to run some good components. I'm looking in the 225-250 dollar range. I have been looking really hard at a pair of JL 6.5in XR components that i can get for 240 dollars. I just realized that might be a biased purchase because of my love for my sub. I just wanted some suggestions/ input from other car audio guys. Anything would be greatly appreiciated. I'm no expert.

JL 6.5 XR components
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_1607.html

Also most of the products i have been looking at come from here- 220-260 dollar range
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/viewc...r=&new_&page=2

 

JL makes good subs, I have 3. Never listened to any other speakers from them. I have Infinity components in the front and I like them.

 

I like Rainbow....

 

rainbows a little out of his price range. like, double out of his price range

 

Hi, I have the JL Audio XR570's. They sound great and fit the door perfectly. Cheers, Blue

 

smart move ditching the rear fill

 

Not the SLCs.

 

Nawww
Like Bry said, SCL's. Or if you go with used you can get some nice deals.

 

I don't if this'll help at all or not, but I just bought a pair of Polk MM 5250's for my '04 screw. I haven't gotten them installed yet, so I can't tell you how they sound - but I did read all the posts in these fourms and from what I can tell, those, or the next step up the MM 6500 seem like a good choice.

I sure hope so - mine are sitting on my dining room table waiting for my new HU to get here!

 

Cool, a fellow F150er down the street, don't know about the 5250's.. but I smoked a set of 6500 in less than 5 minites.... replaced with Rainbows... no smoke now, just clean loud sound... great midmass in sealed doors.. love the tweeters.. did I say loud...

 

Well that makes me nervous...what power were you running to them? I am going to run 75W to each (they have an RMS of 10-100)

/sorry for the threadjack
//nice to see some people in the neighborhood! I'll drop you a line if I get stuck on the install.

 

Yeeaaa, I may have slightly over powered them..
I still need to check output power level, this amp is way under rated as show with a 33.5 volt (260W) reading on DDM without clipping... I want to hook up my fluke 87 and set to peak hold, play a couple tunes and see just what it doing in real time...