Garmin announced new premium JL Audio vehicle-specific speakers for many popular vehicles, adding to its Custom Fit series that launched last year.
The new models offer drop in speakers for Ram, Toyota, Chevrolet and GMC vehicles.
A new 2.75 inch midtweeter is available now to be followed by a 6×9 woofer due in 5 to 8 weeks.
The new speakers are offered separately or as a two-way component system at $899.99 (see uppermost photo). The system has a two-way passive crossover with inline high pass and built-in low pass filters. Both can be bypassed for active systems.
The midtweeter uses neodymium magnets and fiber-reinforced pulp cones with “S” roll surrounds. It has a glass-filled, high temperature polymer frame. Terminals and grilles are customized for drop installation.
Other specs:
Midtweeter, 2.75-inch for Ram, Toyota and GM: handles 40 watts RMS continuous power. Sensitivity of 86.5 dB, frequency response of 410 Hz to 20kHz +/- 3dB into 4 ohms.$399.99.
Woofer, 6×9-inch for Ram, Toyota and GM: handles 150 watts RMS continuous power with a sensitivity of 86dB and a frequency response of 36HZ to 19kHZ +/- 3dB into 4 ohms. $499.99.
See more specs here.
You have got to be kidding $899 $,900 for a 6 / 9 and a 2 and 3/4 inch mid tweeter, I hope Jl audio goes out of business. They’re on their way real fast. Pricing items? Way way too high for what they are the executives. There must be just absolute idiots, they’re literally going to price themselves out of business, because no one’s going to spend nine hundred dollars for a six by nine speaker in a midtweeter, you’d have to be smoking crack to do something like that.
People will absolutely spend $900 for a component system. I think the shock with these is that it’s the first expansion to the Custom Fit line and the price assumption based on the current 3.5 and 2.75 would put this around $399-$499. If this was marketed under the C6 line no one would bat an eye lid at the price.
Are you kidding me. $ 800 for that. So many other better component sets you can buy for your money. WTH
Most definitely! I don’t mind paying a bit more for “Made In America” and I don’t even mind paying a bit more to get a certain “Brand” but, JL has always upcharged the most outta every car audio company on everything they make, and that includes everything they have made in China as well! However, they continue to get away with it because you have those that will pay these absurd amounts just to say they have a JL system, when for the same $ they could’ve been twice as loud!? I’ll never understand it personally but, hey, thats just me… Alternatives just off the top of my head, though. Kenwood makes a nice set like this for certain GM vehicles that have the 6×9 in the door & the 2.75 for the dash, for around $229 – $279 last I remember. Pioneer does as well. Oh yeah, so does Alpine it’s their S series, and both have the 2.75 you need for the dash on basically all GM vehicles for the past decade, and both are priced similarly to the Kenwood from what I remember. Just incase you or anyone else were looking, and I can personally vouch for the sound quality being excellent on the Kenwood & Alpine but, im sure the Pioneer is up to par as well.