I'm having a DEH-P7400HD put in my Honda 08 Fit Sport today, and I'm debating my next upgrade step. I really want to do the speakers next, but not at the risk of losing what little SPL comes out of the receiver and factory speakers.

Anyone have a guess as to roughly what the sensitivity is on the factory speakers? Is is higher or lower than some particular speaker make/model you put in?

And just in case someone wants to suggest it, I don't want to add a subwoofer first. I want to wait until I can afford a good multichannel amp at the same time, and that won't be until toward the end of this summer.

Thanks for any help

 

Sensitivity while a small indicator of the amount of sound that can come out of a speaker is not the only factor. I can tell you from a long history in car audio, that a well made aftermarket speaker system will be miles better than anything you can obtain from a factory stereo system. Depending on your budget I can make some recommendations, so if you want list how much you wanna spend for front components and rear coaxials and I can toss up some recommendations.

 

Thanks, but I wasn't planning on skipping the speakers and have been doing my research; I have quite a few upgrades in mind, just working out where to start based on what budget I can allocate now vs. later, as well as where I want to see the most benefit first.

But after talking with an installer today, I decided to go ahead and order a pair of Diamond Audio D663S for my fronts that Crutchfield had on open box for $169 and ordered a bunch of Second Skin. I'm probably going to head towards full 2.1 with amp and sub once the PPI Phantom 900.4 shows back up, and then worry about the rear speakers at the very last (or maybe never).

BTW: I've been out of car audio for a long time, but my first system was in 1984, Sony top of the line Dolby B&C cassette, with 2 pairs Infinity 6.5 in the door and back seat, with 1 pair 6x9 Infinity in the hatch, with an HK CA260 driving the 6x9s, and then another amp driving the front 2 pairs (don't remember, might have been Alpine). Things sure have changed since then