SOUND STORM GS252 GS 5.25" 2-way 200-watt Full Range Speakers

Have had 2 sets of these installed for about 10 days now. Big improvement over the paper cone OEM speakers that came with my vehicle. Tweeters are directional a few degrees in all directions with included install brackets/rings. Sounds seems well balanced for this price point and product seems decently made. Due to this products efficiency rating of 92dB (@ 1 Watt/1 Meter), high volume is easily acheived using just the built-in amps in my head unit with out distortion.Packaging: typical speaker package, all the needed hardware and accessories included to complete the install. Grills, crossover, two types of tweeter mounts (flush or surface), pre-installed wire (18 gauge wire), brackets, screws, etc.Crossover: is compact, pre-wired, and pre-labeled for mid and high drivers, comes with double stick tape/foam to mount to most surfaces. I have the crossovers stuck to the inside wall of my front and rear doors with no power window clearance issues. Just watch what direction you run your wires inside to door to prevent snags or hang ups on the window. Once I got my wires positioned to run to the mid-bass and tweeter and tested it by lowering the power windows I used tape to hold the wires and secure it in place.Mid-bass driver: sturdy construction optional grills, not much more to say about it.Tweeter: two install options, mounting ring a little tricky to snap in place, but once you get one done it's easy to duplicate the process to the others. Try not to press on the center of the tweeter grill when taking the mount rings on or off, could dent in. I personally didn't dent in the grill, and applied a reasonable amount of force with my thumbs, but in retrospect I should have pressed more to the edges. Tweeters can be pointed in any direction a few degrees if needed for accuracy.Opinions based on 24 years of do-it-yourself car electronics installation experience and 8 years of home audio/video professional sales experience. I've always had aftermarket speakers/head units in my cars/trucks - I recommend this product for quick upgrade.Installed in: 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD, front and rear doorsMid-mass installed in factory door positions (using Scosche SAGMHR634B)Tweeter installed flush in door panel, cut-out made with hole saw drill attachmentpowered by Pioneer AVIC-F900BT - 50w x 4 max

I wish I could lavish praise here as others have done but I just can't get there. You are pretty much getting what you paid for here.The first pro here is the these speakers sound reasonably good, that is in my opinion about the measure of them, they sound good not great. Unlike other reviewers I found the base performance for a 6x9 at about average. I tried them in door panels and an mdf box running off a head unit amp and separate 105w/channel Focal amp which has a really clean curve. The bass is okay as are the highs. Further I think the mids are on the weak side. The second pro is pretty obvious - the price. I good paid more than this for an average pair of 6x9s in the 1980s. Economies of scale whatever - its a price for even average speakers.The first con is build quality. The tweeter/"mid" mount on one of the speakers was glued a considerable amount off-level to the remainder of the speaker chassis. I had one level and one out of level, I am guessing the level version is the correct approach. The second con may just be a personal problem, but why is there not a cutout template included in the box? It is so easy and low cost to provide one and on the opposite side an almost necessity if you need one and do not have it. As it was I rummaged through my shop and found an old blown 6x9 and stripped the trim ring off of it and it was close enough to work.Conclusion: After considering the build quality and listening to what they had to offer I did go ahead and install them in the door panels in an old Dodge D150 I have. The reason being is that if you have a noisy vehicle(which my truck is) higher fidelity speakers offer very limited returns. My thoughts are this is a well-priced average performing speaker that would be great in a vehicle with a high noise floor. If you are looking for truly musical speakers, I think you gotta invest a some more money.

Put these speakers in today and love them so far! The sound quality is a huge upgrade from the stock speakers in my 98 Saturn.That being said there are a few drawbacks to buying these speakers:1) The installation instructions which are included are composed of two illustrated pictures showing which mounting brackets to use for the flush and suface mount options for the tweeters. Other than that it's up to you to figure out how to actually change the plastic tweeter housings between flush and surface or how to use the mounting clips the screws fit in for holding the Midwoofers in place.2) Speaking of the mounting clips they are cheap and hard to use even once you've figured them out; as are the mounting brackets for holding the tweeters in place in a flush mount setup.3) The output wires on the supplied crossover are pretty short, especially the tweeter wires. So I was forced to use the suppplied sticky tape to mount the crossover halfway up inside the door frame instead of being able to tuck it away at the bottom of the door.Issues 1 and 2 combined to make the installation process a much harder and longer chore than it needed to be.But even with the shortcomings in the included periperhals I still give these speakers five stars as once I finally got them installed they sounded truly amazing considering how little they cost.