Best standard fit speakers for RCD510?

[Meallbhan]

Afternoon,

I just fitted an RCD510 and while impressed with the sound difference from my old RCD500, the sound quality isn't quite what I want, its nice and clear but not quite deep enough.

I don't want to go fitting amps etc, I just want to replace with standard fit speakers which don't require any mods. I will just leave the standard 4 tweeters inplace and just replace the main speakers of which there are 4, so I'm not after a component set. What would people suggest?

[Joesoap]

My Edition has a RCD510 DAB unit and the sound is outstanding 
think it has ten speakers, could be wrong 

[Meallbhan]

Yeh the sound is good but not quite deep and full enough for me. I have 8 speakers I think, a tweeter and main speaker in each corner.

[Meallbhan]

Anyone??

[MALOM]

What exactly do you mean by not deep enough? Is it low bass you’re after?

Changing to normal speakers won’t improve the quality much unless you go for the 3 way components.

[Meallbhan]

Its a richer sound I'm looking for. I'm not after eyeball rattling bass, but a little more would be nice. The treble and mid range or ok but the bass on the oem speakers sounds a bit hard and tight, so I'd like that to be a little softer.

I know I can't as for miracles without installing an amp at least, but I just can't be bothered with that any more. If I can find a speaker, maybe coaxial, that would be a big improvement on the oem ones, that the stereo would power ok, I'd probably be happy.

[Meallbhan]

Also I don't want to have to run new speakers wires etc, just use the original ones. This obviously would restrict the sound a bit but the must be something out there half decent that would suit.

[torque777]

How about a focal set up ..you can buy a set for mk5/mk6 golf which are designed to work with standard vw unit not amplified


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[MALOM]

Its a richer sound I'm looking for. I'm not after eyeball rattling bass, but a little more would be nice. The treble and mid range or ok but the bass on the oem speakers sounds a bit hard and tight, so I'd like that to be a little softer.

I know I can't as for miracles without installing an amp at least, but I just can't be bothered with that any more. If I can find a speaker, maybe coaxial, that would be a big improvement on the oem ones, that the stereo would power ok, I'd probably be happy.

In order for the bass to be softer you need a system that has low bass frequency or an amp to do it for you. Standard systems have bass frequency of around 100Hz. Get a system that allows you to change the frequency with the standard speakers and it will sound better then having changed the speakers whcih wont really make much of a difference except the mid range that will sound more clearer.

Im not an expert but I had similar issues. Got myself an aftermarket system which allows me to take the frequency down to 60Hz and it sound 100 times better now.

[Meallbhan]

Thats interesting, I never thought along those lines. I'll maybe give Ray Smith in Edinburgh a call and see what they suggest.