2016~2023: 8" speakers fit perfectly in the CX-9 doors!

[theblooms]

If you can fit Linear Power 8's in the doors, why wouldn't you?

>inb4 my Bose

My car didn't have Bose, and Linear Power speakers and amplifiers are handmade in D'Lo Mississippi, and are extremely high end car audio. Small family owned company in business since 1969, and everything they turn out is personally inspected by the owner of the company. It's the best of the best, with multiple IASCA and MECA World Championships.

You may not have heard of them, because they don't allow Internet sales. They want a relationship with everyone who uses their products.

 

[N7turbo]

Measurements or trust me bro?

 

[theblooms]

Measurements or trust me bro?

The speakers are Linear Power LP8.0's that I mounted in the doors with OEM Mazda Bose adapter plates part number KD45-66-A61. The speakers didn't quite fit those brackets, so I used a piece of 1/8" sheet aluminum to make adapters to go from the Linear Power speakers to the Mazda speaker brackets. I simply cut the aluminum with a jigsaw to the appropriate size, which was measured with a Sharpie! The specs for the speakers are located on Linear Power's website.

 

[N7turbo]

Sorry, my post was too vague and I had just come off an audio forum.

There is a lot of snake oil in the industry, so when I read statements like this:

You may not have heard of them, because they don't allow Internet sales. They want a relationship with everyone who uses their products.

It sets off some alarm bells. Really good gear is measured and proven to be good. The companies that refuse to have their audio equipment measured by third parties have become suspect in this day and age.

I don't know anything about the company. I just hope they are open to third party measurements.

 

[theblooms]

Sorry, my post was too vague and I had just come off an audio forum.

There is a lot of snake oil in the industry, so when I read statements like this:



It sets off some alarm bells. Really good gear is measured and proven to be good. The companies that refuse to have their audio equipment measured by third parties have become suspect in this day and age.

I don't know anything about the company. I just hope they are open to third party measurements

They aren't afraid to have their equipment tested by anyone, bet that. Their stuff is so good, they sell amps to Nashville recording studios, and I'm not kidding about that.

They have been in business since 1969. Unlike Orion, PPI, Kicker, and Rockford Fosgate, their products are still handmade in Mississippi. Linear Power has multiple IASCA and MECA World Championships in SQL. Back in the day, Car Audio and Electronics magazine did their "Monster Amp Shootout" between the Linear Power 8002SW and the HiFonics Colossus, the Orion GS500, the PPI 2350DM, and the Rockford Fosgate Power 1000. Yup, Linear won. And unlike the race to the bottom with pretty much every other car audio company, Linear stuff is still made to the same standards today as back then.

Check out Mike Flanagan's Trailblazer. I've sat in it and it's nothing short of incredible. Hearing is believing.

https://www.pasmag.com/features/tru...nagan-2002-chevrolet-trailblazer-meca?start=0