My speakers

[07WYarisRS]

Originally Posted by grimez

Just out of curiosity, why are you no longer a fan of Blaupunkt?

Few years back my parents bought a new 2002 Buick regal GS. Awesome car but the stock sound system sucked liked most OE units and the CD player skipped with every bump. So in 2004 they had it replaced

They had thier entire sound system replaced by a local audio shop.
New Blaupunkt HU and CD changer
4 new 2 way Blaupunkt speakers
At first it sounded great....

Within' a year the passenger front speaker started to rattle and both were replaced with the same class Pioneers. This last summer one rear deck speaker started to sound crunchy and the HU started to cut out. I replaced the rear deck speakers with Alpine and removed the CD changer that was constantly jamming up. The rear speaker vc was shorted out.
The HU seems ok but overall I've very disapointed in the quality of the basic Blaupunkt components.
I've used entry level JBL, Alpine and Pioneer for years with no problems. My parents sound system is rarely used and when it is it's not abused or played loud at all.

[bugnuts]

I worked for Pyle Speakers around 10+ years back, They produced some pretty crappy car stereo components themselves, and they also made speakers for Blaupunkt..They used the exact same components as they did for the Pyle speakers only changing the dust cap in the center that had the company logo (This is no shit!), Almost constantly they would get speakers all the way past testing to the final pack area and the backplate and magnets would fall off of them! This is the same as RCA making GE equipment (it is also crap!)There is a lot of companys producing components for other companys like this, It is hard to tell who made the rest of Blaupunkts equipment.

[grimez]

Well, I certainly hope the quality has improved. I tested out all sorts of speakers in an audio studio at my local car audio shop, and the Blaupunkt Velocity's sounded the best to me (followed closely by the JL audio's). Anyway, the speakers came today, and they came with a free drill (yay?). Up next is ordering my head unit, probably going to happen within the next week.

[spkrman]

Originally Posted by 07WYarisRS

Few years back my parents bought a new 2002 Buick regal GS. Awesome car but the stock sound system sucked liked most OE units and the CD player skipped with every bump. So in 2004 they had it replaced

They had thier entire sound system replaced by a local audio shop.
New Blaupunkt HU and CD changer
4 new 2 way Blaupunkt speakers
At first it sounded great....

Within' a year the passenger front speaker started to rattle and both were replaced with the same class Pioneers. This last summer one rear deck speaker started to sound crunchy and the HU started to cut out. I replaced the rear deck speakers with Alpine and removed the CD changer that was constantly jamming up. The rear speaker vc was shorted out.
The HU seems ok but overall I've very disapointed in the quality of the basic Blaupunkt components.
I've used entry level JBL, Alpine and Pioneer for years with no problems. My parents sound system is rarely used and when it is it's not abused or played loud at all.

if you play em hard... they will blow :)