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Just replaced my rear speakers With POLK 522 MM's made the sound twice as good as it was.They are $150.00 a pair and it is money well spent and don't forget to go to EBAY and get the adapter harness.You will love the new enriched sound.
Just replaced my rear speakers With POLK 522 MM's made the sound twice as good as it was.They are $150.00 a pair and it is money well spent and don't forget to go to EBAY and get the adapter harness.You will love the new enriched sound.
Do they just bolt in or is there any modification required?
Gary,
Could you elaborate on how/what you did? I understand you have the stock Bose and replaced the rear mono speakers with these Polks. Are you running them mono off the stock Bose, or did you add an amp to drive them independently in stereo?
Thanks in advance for your help!
BTW, just saw the 300W version of these speakers for $60 ea on Amazon. The 600W MM's were listed as unavailable there.
Last edited by Cardinal Flyer; 04-09-2018 at 11:13 AM.
Reason: Amazon clarification
Gary,
Could you elaborate on how/what you did? I understand you have the stock Bose and replaced the rear mono speakers with these Polks. Are you running them mono off the stock Bose, or did you add an amp to drive them independently in stereo?
Thanks in advance for your help!
BTW, just saw the 300W version of these speakers for $60 ea on Amazon. The 600W MM's were listed as unavailable there.
Kicker Cs 5.25 gets the job down better, and since they are as effecent as the OEM speaker, you don't run into balancing problems with a rear speaker not playing as loud as the front speakers isntead.
Hence some of the problems that you run into with other speakers that are rated for way more power, they don't have the speaker Efficiency/Sensitivity that the lower power that the Bose amp is putting out to start with, and you have to crank the volume of the radio to try to get them to play as loud as the OEM speaker, but with the volume cranked up up, the radio and amp is just putting out a great deal of distorting instead.
Note, you destroy a speaker coil faster by it trying to play a distorted signal, then throwing more power at the speaker that it rated for instead. With the signal distorted, the speaker coils can not track cleanly, and this cause the coil wire to make contact to the side of the channel to wear their protective wire coatings, to cause the coil wired to break. By over powering a speaker with too much power that it rated for with a clean signal, then here is where you can over heat the coil wires to burn them up instead.
Hence the CF speakers are looking for a continuous Power of 30w to play clean (about what the Bose amp puts out)
While the pock's are looking for 100 amps before they will play clean isntead.
Polk DB522
Continuous Power Handling
100W
Peak Power Handling
300W
And yes, if you want a better stereo sound on a Bose system, then you need to replace the two small speakers in the doors, since they are the only speakers that are playing in stereo. The rest of the speakers, including the back two speakers, are just filler speakers playing in mono.
Hence, got No High's, got No Low's, much be Bose!!!!
Kicker Cs 5.25 gets the job down better, and since they are as effecent as the OEM speaker, you don't run into balancing problems with a rear speaker not playing as loud as the front speakers isntead.
Hence some of the problems that you run into with other speakers that are rated for way more power, they don't have the speaker Efficiency/Sensitivity that the lower power that the Bose amp is putting out to start with, and you have to crank the volume of the radio to try to get them to play as loud as the OEM speaker, but with the volume cranked up up, the radio and amp is just putting out a great deal of distorting instead.
Note, you destroy a speaker coil faster by it trying to play a distorted signal, then throwing more power at the speaker that it rated for instead. With the signal distorted, the speaker coils can not track cleanly, and this cause the coil wire to make contact to the side of the channel to wear their protective wire coatings, to cause the coil wired to break. By over powering a speaker with too much power that it rated for with a clean signal, then here is where you can over heat the coil wires to burn them up instead.
Hence the CF speakers are looking for a continuous Power of 30w to play clean (about what the Bose amp puts out)
While the pock's are looking for 100 amps before they will play clean isntead.
Polk DB522
Continuous Power Handling
100W
Peak Power Handling
300W
And yes, if you want a better stereo sound on a Bose system, then you need to replace the two small speakers in the doors, since they are the only speakers that are playing in stereo. The rest of the speakers, including the back two speakers, are just filler speakers playing in mono.
Hence, got No High's, got No Low's, much be Bose!!!!
And yes, if you want a better stereo sound on a Bose system,
Hence, got No High's, got No Low's, much be Bose!!!!
Then upgrade your source material. Most of my music (classic rock) is re-equalized thru a sound board and put back on my I-POD.
American Woman, Whole Lotta Love, 25 or 6 to 4 etc..sounds amazing on my '13 GS Bose system. I've got high's, got lows and it is Bose!
04-08-2018, 10:13 AM
Replaced Rear Speakers With POLK 522 MM's
