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I just bought some 3-way pioneer 6x8's (TS-A6870R) from Wal-mart. They sounded pretty good on their display and they were $56 which is half the price of most of the 6x8's at all my local car audio shops so I decided to get them. When I took them out and installed them in my front doors, I noticed on the woofer part of the speaker, it looked as if there werelines all over it, sort of like a mosiac. I didn't think much of it until i turned the system back on, I could not turn the volume up past 20-21 (out of 33) on my Clarion head unit without the speakers crackling and what not. The factory speakers were louder than these. I then put the fade to the rear speakers which are lightning audio 2-ways and I could turn them up much more than the new pioneers. I just want to know what's up with this. thanks!

[edit]oh, and i went back to wal-mart to check out the display and the speakers on their display did not have lines all over it and they seemed to be much louder and crisper.

What's up is that you bought speakers from wally world... and you bought them out of the display stand...

In all likelyhood, they are completely abused and ready for the junkyard. If you only knew what we do to the speaker wall at night. Shut off the intercomm, put our own CD in the best HU on the wall, run the best 6x9s off the biggest amp, and crank it pretty much all the way up for the entire night. Good times... but the speakers sometimes smell like crispy voice coils

oh, i DIDN'T buy them off the display stand, the ones on the display stand sound better than the ones i got off the shelf.

they don't do that here... our wal-mart is open all nite,, i've been there at 2am,3am,etc. that would be cool if they did do that. sounds like he bought some that were returns or defect, or somebody tampered with b4 he bought. just take them back and get new ones.

okay, i just read the box and it said there are supposed to be speaker wire included but I did not get any when I opened the box up..hmm, i need to go find my reciept!

If you bought them at WAlmart you don't need a receipt, because they are idiots

Besides crutchfield can you get the stock spaeker wire adaptors at any of the chain stores?

I'm thinking you bought a pair of speakers that were already abused/returned. I'm sure Wal-Mart doesn't test speakers before putting them back...they probably don't even look in the box. Were there any other left, or did you buy the last pair?

I bought the last pair of the 3-ways but they had a bunch of the 2-way 6x8 pioneers for the same price.