Loudest Clearest Speakers
 

So I was thinking this morning about what would be the loudest speaker that doesnt break up at these volumes. What speakers would you pick for the job?
Say being amplified with around 125-150 watts per channel. The stipulation is the tweeters can get too shrill when cranked. And I'm thinking 6.5" Components.

Opinions?

The Morel $1400 set.

Loudest and clearest.
 

I would use the Eighteen Sound 6ND430 midbass and the Vifa DPH11 tweeter. Of course i would make my own passive crossovers.

jbl gti c 608...hands down the best deal going for loud, clean components that easily handle big power and sound great...can be bought on ebay for 225-260.00 us...or locally for 700.00 in toronto. Has huge magnet so make sure you have the space, 2" voice coil, and titanium tweets with rubber surround dampers that are the most detailed and crisp sounding I've heard to date.

First off I would ask, why do you feel you need 125-150W and how you came up with that number? Secondly, all these Wattage numbers thrown around are purely arbitrary. Designing a system to sum up and sound coherent is a skill that is more important then buying a "150W RMS" set of components. Thirdly, 125W-150W into a given driver with a given frequency could spell death or breakup as you noted to a given speaker. Most tweeters running into those power ranges with low cutoff frequencies will make your ears bleed. 6.5" speakers playing double duty as mid bass and mid will sound very strained. Generally speaking, tweeters don't need more 50W at most, mid range speakers going up to say 75 and mid bass will require more, this will greatly depend on you ability to use deadening and driver placement for your given vehicle. A company putting a sticker on a box and says this will handle 150W RMS, which BTW makes no sense in a real life situtation. If you're building an spl vehicle then to me it doesn't matter what you put in there for mids and tweets, if you're trying to build a nice sounding system then I recommend you do some reading before you shell out your hard earned money on something that will to be quite honest, disappointing.

If you want serious output, go with a waveguide. USD makes some killer sets. I think I saw a set of ID horns in the For Sale section too.

DD makes a really solid 6.5 otherwise maybe hyrbid audio

one site. [url=http://www.partsexpress.com]Parts-Express.com found sooo much good stuff.

if u dont mind me asking but what kind of car or truck do u have?

This was the most non-helpful response I've ever seen. It was a general question. Believe it or not, some people like to have a mix between SPL and good quality sound. This being the goal. I understand that power doesnt mean a whole lot but its easier to say said amount of power rather than being able to handle a 1000 hz sine wave at 5% distortion with 150 watts.

I'll be more general then. I want a set of components that will take a lot of abuse and still sound good doing it. Is that better?