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You can find speakers that go a tad lower than others. You could do a mutt set, meaning that you get one brand of mid woofer and another brand tweeter and crossover. It's no new thing.

However, if you want entry level pricing and a speaker that performs more full range than most of your budget speakers, the JL Audio VR series coax goes fairly low for a mid woofer and sounds good in any application. If you don't have an EX (if I remember correctly these are the only ones with tweeter pods, I sold my EX a while back, but I try to be helpful still around here) you won't have to buy sail panels from an EX to install tweets in the factory location, as those are coax.

For a mutt set, I like the Adire Audio Koda 6 midwoofer, because of their ability to go low. They're about $100 per set, which is a great price for the way they perform. Then some other tweet. My mutt set I ran for a long time consisted of the Koda 6's, and Image Dynamics NX30 tweeter and a crossover I picked up from somewhere else. That was one of the most phenominally performing low budget setups I've ever owned, or heard for that matter. Their(Adire) Extremis 6.8 inch midwoofer sounds good in there, but it requires some work to get in teh door, I won't go into that.

CDT's sets also sound pretty damned good in y'all's car (former civic owner), as I've had their components in the Civic before selling it as well. They sound good in other applications as well, but you're talking civics here.

I could go on and on, but I'm cutting it short for the purpose of not listing 45 speakers or so and giving you this large *** list to sort through. I would, however, recommend going to an audio shop and listening to different speakers and get what sounds best to your ears, as you're going to be the one listening to them daily. Your music tastes will differ from mine and everyone elses, so what sounds good to me might not sound good to you, and vice versa. It'd be hard to find Adire's in a shop, so that's more of a word of mouth thing than anything else, unless you can find someone that has them that you can listen to. Listen to as many sets as you can, and if possible listen to them in a car as opposed to on a sound board, as they will sound different installed in a vehicle than they will in a listening room.

 
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i've read on another site that mix and matching a mutt set isnt as good an idea as it would not result in a clean and natural sound... did you get that problem with your mutt set?

what about alpines? should i bother considering an alpine set?

 
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How is it not a good idea? I'd like a scientific explaination from the person that said that, as there is not one. If you have to crossover tuned in the speakers range, and to the frequency range that you want from the speakers, you'll get better results than an off the shelf set. I've always gotten better results mixing and matching things. I've never been brand dedicated, and never will be unless someone wants to sponsor me. Other than that, there's no reason to believe that mixing and matching will do anything in terms of audio. It definitely will not effect performance. The person that said that obviously buys into marketing ploys. If that were true, then explain to me why competitors don't all run the same gear, and the same brand? Fact of the matter is, there is no right answer, as with boxes for subs, another topic for another time.

As for alpines, I love their decks. I'm not so big of a fan of their speakers. Their subs are okay, but I've never been real impressed with any of their components/coax speakers. To you, however, they might be what you're looking for. I'd give them a listen at an audio shop, were I you, to determine if they're what you like.