Asking for help, recommendations, and general advice on Car Speakers
Hello! Apologies in advance for any missed rules, things done wrong, etc. While I have some very basic rough knowledge on more general car health and well-being, I am not so savvy on the more Audio/Video/Tech side of things, so please do forgive any obvious obliviousness, or lack of knowledge I may show here.
Context (As brief as I can make it):
- Old car speakers broke because I hammered them too much basically.
- Took car to a franchised-garage to get speakers fixed/replacements.
- Fella fitted car with some speakers which I HATE.
- Please help.
I brought my current car speakers from a Halfords, (I'm in the UK, and here that's a sort of franchise general hardware and car-repair shop type thing), they also fitted them for me. The fella who ordered and fitted the speakers told me that anything he could find and install for me, would be of a better audio quality than what my car was fitted with already. And I, foolishly, believed him.
He ended up fitting my car with some '4 COAXIAL PULSE4-V3, 4" (100mm)' speakers. They are from a brand called 'Vibe: British Audio'.
In my opinion, the audio quality is just not that good. With my old speakers, instrumental-heavy pieces would sound wonderfully spatial, very clear in all channels, but still loud (when I wanted it to be) and impactful without losing quality and remaining clear and distinct.
These COAXIAL's sound like the bass has just been sort of smothered with a heavy blanket, not resonant at all. It sounds very muffled.
The worse thing though has to be the sort of fuzziness of it all. Again, I'm sorry for not quite knowing all the right terms, but the best word I can come up with to describe it is as sort of 'trilly'. Layers get lost and it all ends up getting played as one horrible clump of noise. Played too loud, it genuinely hurts my ears, it's kind of too sharp, brittle and really fuzzy. I have already messed around with the cars internal equalizer control, and while it's helped a little bit, I feel like the speaker's are clearly the core-problem here.
So here I am, begging for help.
Do you think it is my car speakers?
Have they maybe not been fitted properly?
Should I just get different/new speakers?
Do we think they just need some additional equipment like, a subwoofer or whatever?
I'm very tempted to just go and buy some new (hopefully) better speakers, so if anyone has any recommendations for car-speakers that provide a good clear, spatial but rich and deep audio quality, I'd love to know.
Alternatively, if by-chance, anyone is aware of what type of speakers came originally fitted with a Kia Picanto, that'd do just as well IMO.
I'm happy to provide further details if it'd prove helpful. I'll be thankful for any advice at all really!
Further information:
- I drive a Kia Picanto 3 from 2022.
- The speaker that broke originally was the front speaker in the left-side passenger door. Halfords replaced both speakers when installing the new ones.
- The Halford's-Man had a lot of initial trouble just figuring out what size speakers exactly my car would need. If I did just want to buy some new ones, I'm guessing I can only have 4" ones?