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Originally Posted by kdbcom  One can only assume then that the speakers fitted to cars with the Harmon Cd unit are either different in quality or else the normal speakers are poorly matched (ie require more power to drive them than is available) to the standard (Alpine) unit. There is no way that a better Amplifier / Cd unit will make poor speakers good, and it does seem to be the concensus of opinion that the standard rear speakers are poor.
It would be interesting to find out what speakers are fitted with the Harmon unit, has any one looked at their speakers in the Harmon setup. I think there may be pictures in previous threads showing the standard( supposedly poor) speakers. |
We are bouncing about on a few topics here.
The original rear speakers have a capacitor in series with the feed.(as seen in our speaker change posting way back)
This blocks all bass from driving that speaker.
MB probably did this when the Canadian version came standard with the Audio 20(Alpine) instead of the Audio 5(Becker).
Rather than putting in better speakers, they simply blocked extra power from damaging the original rears and left us with a truly crappy rear sound.
The front speakers have a nice sound and are of better quality.IMHO
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I have a manual tranny and love it, but if I was stuck in traffic, I would consider the CVT and I value the great comments and well explained variety we see here. Keep them coming!! Derek
