rear speakers low power factory amp? Help! Options

[joy_zze]

I have a
1999 Celica with 4 6.5" speakers and the little
tweeter in the door. I am pretty sure there is only
one factory amp in the console. For some mysterious
reason, the rear speakers are only getting about 1/4
the power of the front speakers, and very little bass.
I replaced all 6.5 inch speakers with JL audio, and
replaced the head unit with a pioneer mp3 player.
Still, the problem persists. I have double checked the
head unit installation, and all seems to be fine. Is
it possible the factory amp only partially crapped out
on the rear speakers? If so, what should i replace it
with? I don't need anything fancy. The front 4
speakers sound great. I'd just like the rear speakers
to sound as good. Should I (could I) just bypass it? Any help/hints you could offer would
be greatly appreciated, as I am getting quite
frustrated! Thank you in advance, Joy

[shid]

Andason, we both run Alpine speakers off our equal RMS head units. All of our head units output 25W RMS- which is above the minimum of the Alpine Type S speakers minimum RMS. It is NOT above the minimum of the JL speakers, and JL does not overrate their speakers like Sony.

Joy, the problem isn't that they're not gonna be loud, its that they're going to distort at extremly low volumes becuase the speakers need more power to reproduce even moderate volume. THats what recommend power means- the power needed to make the speakers move.

This post has been edited by shid: Jun 26, 2004 - 10:05 PM