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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 09:27 AM
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I currently have the pioneer system in my car and not impressed what so ever. I want to change over to the nak. I was wondering if the nak. 4" door speaker from the SC fits the GS front door. From what I was told they are, but I just wanted to double check. Thanks
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 10:45 AM
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It won't be worth it IMO. I have the Nakamichi and for having the "Nakamichi" name, I am not impressed at all.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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The Nak speakers are basically garbage paper cone speakers.
The only reason they sound at all decent is that the NAK amp
is equalized and optimized for them. I ran the stock NAK speakers
for a while with my AVIC-D1 head unit (my car had the OE Nakamichi
system, I had to abandon the NAK amp), and the NAKs sounded
lousy...

I'd definitely rather spend my money on even on a cheap set of
Alpine or Boston Acoustics aftermarket speakers for the GS before
trying to muck around with the Nak stuff.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:13 AM
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I want to have better sound and bass in the car, without having to spend a lot of money and I don't want to have everything rattling. I have a sub and amp, but I don't want to have my trunk rattling. I like the sound of OEM quality sound. I had a TL with the OEM bose and I loved the way it sounded. It was the perfect for what I wanted...Bass plus clarity and nothing rattling.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 11:15 AM
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-404- The word "BOSE" together with the word "clarity" not found!

I still say you'd be better off with decent aftermarket co-axial door speakers
than the Nakamichi stuff.
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 01:15 PM
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to me i feel the pioneer in my gs400 sounds so much better than the bose in my tl-s. the oem setup in the tl sux horribly, no base and just didn't sound right. i definitely wouldn't touch bose again

i agree with bob, go with some aftermarket stuff like JL audio or so, probably better choice (i haven' listened to several and it's pretty good)
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Old Jul 31, 2007 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SoCalSC4
-404- The word "BOSE" together with the word "clarity" not found!
hahaha

I just got 6.5" in the front b/c my stock ones blew. 60bucks+baffleboards.
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