rkilian

I had the rear deck rattle, so I decided to pull the seats and remove the rattle by adding a little felt.
Once I removed the deck, I noticed that Acura had forgotten to install two of the trim clips that hold the deck down at the rear, additionally, I noticed that the rear speakers looked really "economical" the only thing missing was the paper cones. I proceeded to remove one of them and found out it's only a 20 W 2 ohm resistance speaker.
If I have my math right the sound system was supposed to be 250W
four speaker at 20W each is 80W. The center speaker and the tweeters in the dashboard cannot contribute more than another 20. I can tell you the subwoofer is not 150W
Talk about going cheap!!! 20W at 2 ohms.

Anyway, I replaced them with a set of Infinity Reference two way speakers with a separate crossover. Although the new speakers are 4 ohm the system sounds much much better.

Future Project Replace the sub, the rest of the speakers and possibly the amp.

I don't like banging sound I just like good quality sound.

jayhawk

Based on where the amp is located (pass side kick panel) the amp couldn't acutally produce 250 usable watts, more like 125.

Did you take any pics of the install?

Z Factor

It never fails that a stock stereo system in most cars is really the most cheaply made, even if the company has a great reputation.

In the old days when you could buy a car without a stereo as an option, that's exactly what I did. I'd take the savings, buy a 10X better system, and have money left over. No such option seems to exist, so we are stuck with what they provide in the cost of the car.

Rocketsfan

Anyone have speaker dimensions for all speakers in the TL?

rkilian

The rears are 6.5" round and the sub is 8" round. Both are really shallow.
I was told the doors are also 6.5" but cannot confirm.

frqwntbyr

Do you have to take rear seat out to replace rear deck speakers?

MARK1

rkilian, how do you remove the back seat? and the rear deck I have the same rattle some where there. I'm planning to check it out and fix it.

thanks

Rocketsfan

rkillian,

Thanks. Would you (or anyone else) happen to know what size the tweeters are?

TL-Rocket

Can you tell me how you removed the rear seat and speakers.
When I get my TL (soon!!) this will be one of my first projects.

TL-Rocket

LED Master

rkillian,

I have attached a photo showing a cutaway of the rear deck and the speakers you are talking about, thanks to vtec.net

http://sohc.vtec.net/news_files/148784/04tl_tov07.jpg

LED Master

That did not work, try this one.