Car Stereo Speakers

To understand car stereo speakers, it helps to think of sounds as falling into three basic categories: high-frequency sounds, low-frequency sounds, and mid-range ones. Most people think of low-frequency sounds as bass and high-frequency ones as treble. The woofers and subwoofers of a car stereo’s speaker system handle the bass sounds, while tweeters handle treble.

Although woofers and subwoofers often gain the lion’s share of attention from consumers, tweeters are equally important to creating great sound. Many installed car stereo systems have marginal quality tweeters, and it is often in the brighter trebles that you’ll notice the most difference when upgrading to an aftermarket system. Dome tweeters are usually considered superior to cone tweeters.

In addition to tweeters, car stereo speakers may have separate woofers, subwoofers, and mid-range speakers. The purpose of subwoofers is to handle lower bass sounds than an ordinary woofer can.

Integrated speaker systems that combine the tweeter, woofer, and mid-range drivers into one unit are also commonly sold. A two-way integrated speaker system will normally send the high-frequency signals to a tweeter and the rest to combined mid-range/woofer speakers. A three-way integrated speaker will split the signal into tweeter, mid-range, and woofer frequencies.

Aftermarket car stereo speakers are typically sold by size–that is, by their dimensions in inches. RMS power indicates speaker power over sustained periods; peak power indicates the power available for short bursts of sound. To see a full selection of car stereo speakers, click on this link.

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