Knackered Ph1 Rear Speakers

[lamborgini8]

I am not sure if they are totally knackered or not but I have the bass up full and treble down lowest in my car, that's just the way I like music... lots of bass.

Problem is the rear speakers, which are next to the rear seats, rattle like crazy and distort a lot even with the volume around 10. The tweeters and speakers in the front are fine but the rear ones are horrific.

It seams you only have left and right speaker control with the standard clio head unit so I can't turn down the rear speakers separately...

Is there some way to get to them and check them out? Would it be worth building something more solid to fix the speakers to? or should I just buy totally new speakers? baring in mind I am on a rather small budget.

A sub woofer is on the list of things to buy when I find myself a new job.

 

[st3ve]

you can fade it to the front.

 

[lamborgini8]

you can fade it to the front.

I can?

I have the ridiculously old radio/cassette head unit and from what I have seen when I was playing about with the ballence I could only do left and right.

Seeing as we are on the head unit subject, how on earth do I turn AF off on this unit? It's driving me nuts where it keeps going silent and searching again.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Balance will do right-left and fader will do front-rear.

If your HU only does left/right, then it's probably time to upgrade !

The rear speakers in mine sound poo, theres no treble from them and the mid range sounds awful.

I've got a sub in the boot, fader most of the way to the front, on an Alpine head unit. Job done

 

[agithegreat]

The rattle will be from distortion.
As you have increased settings using +ve bass adjustments you have induced clip, which has inturn produced distortion which is rattling the speaker to death. If you want more bass you need new speakers and ideally need them amped, or alternativly turn it down and get a sub.