Boss Audio CH6500 New 6.5" Slim 2-Way Speaker Red Poly Injection 6-1/2 Inches

I am not an audio specialist so don't take my review as the one stop source for all things speaker related. Simply documenting my experience with these speakers. My reason for getting new speakers was simply to replace the outdated and blown out speakers on a 21 year old Honda Odyssey van. The Boss website says that these are drop in replacements that "fit my ride". After looking at the blown out stock speakers and comparing them to the pictures of the Boss units, I could tell they probably weren't going to fit like the old ones. I got the first set of them in the mail today and as expected they didn't align with the original mounting holes or peg. Thankfully the door material is regular plastic so making new holes wasn't hard. Even tightened down as much as possible (without bending the frame) the speakers do not lay flat in the recess and that's due to the small raised notches that the old speakers used for alignment points. Still they work fine and I can even put the factory cover over them. Didn't end up using the included covers since these are hidden speakers in the front doors. I got the back set to but they will be here later, maybe tomorrow. So for now I have unhooked and removed the back ones and just running the two front speakers until the other ones arrive. From my lack of understanding I figure running 200W speakers with the original 15W's wouldn't be a good idea, but maybe that doesn't matter at all. They are very loud but don't expect to much bass, they are just mid-ranges after all. Compared to the dried out and blow apart ones that I removed the Boss CH6500's are a massive upgrade for a very reasonable price. I was concerned about taking off the OEM connectors but found it easy to install without them. They do come with a length of speaker wire and the female spade connectors, attached on one end, so all I had to do was cut the OEM connector off, shave the insulation off of the wires, twist them together, and wrap tightly with electrical tape. It's what I have on hand but if I do get static or intermittent sound problems then I'll get some wire nuts and secure them better. Seems fine so far and am looking forward to hearing how it sounds when all four channels are in use at the same time. It's already a lot louder and more robust with only the two in the front. With a Boss single din head unit, harness, and 4 speakers I was able to improve upon the old setup for about 130 bucks. I feared it was going to be very expensive but prices for car audio have come down a lot in 20 years and now my old van can connect using Bluetooth to phones and MP3 players so I don't have to listen to the radio and their "narrative" all the time anymore. In the future I might update the double din bay with a touch screen based head unit, and phase out the single din unit I just got. The drive to get bluetooth in the car lead me here, the speakers were just an extra thing to do, mainly because they needed it, and because I wanted to.

I had doubt until I installed these speakers in my Nissan Altima 1998. But I was happy with the sound quality. They dint fit exactly but I managed to fit them with some dragging and banging. Now they work great . It was cheap and its working good and beyond expectancy.