CT Sounds Meso 5.25” 240 Watt 2-Way Premium Component Speaker Set

I bought these CT Sounds 5.25” components for a custom speaker box I built, and I’m honestly impressed with how they turned out. I wasn’t expecting this much sound from a 5.25” set. Once I got the enclosure and tuning right, these things sound incredible. The mids are clean and full, the highs from the tweeters are crisp without being painfully harsh, and they actually have some impressive punch and bass for their size. The overall sound is very balanced, especially when you turn them up. I’ve built a few different portable speaker setups, and these are easily one of my favorites so far. They have that “damn, that sounds good” effect when you get everything dialed in 😂. If you’re putting these into a custom enclosure rather than just throwing them into a basic door panel, I’d definitely recommend them. Great sound for a 5.25” component set and definitely exceeded my expectations.

They are awesome and I installed in my Harley

I finally hooked these up to the packaged crossover, and they sound great! There are many options for mounting the tweeter. The option I picked mounts the tweeter in a rotatable gimbal mount so that the tweeter can be pointed any direction within a generous plane degree.

I have 1 set per front door total of 2 mids 2 tweeters per door ran off a Orion 6002 and man these are some of the best budget comp sets I've ever ran. Crossed at 80hz these sound really good. Tweeters are a little bright so I have them at -3db and it helped a lot. Mids were a little deep considering my build. I chose the lazy budget build without fiber glass or cutting me doors.

Ive been a rockford fosgate guy when it comes to mids and highs but i picked up these and 5.25 meso set for my car great bang for your buck and will be converting over to CTSounds. The mesos are the front stage and the stratos are the rear stage. In comparison to my truck which has Rockford t2s in the front and t1s in rear. Running both the rockfords and the CTsounds on the same 4 channel (RE Ctx 1000.4) and the CT sounds out perform the rockfords in everyway

So I bought some speakers and I put them in and they just barely had any sound coming out of them and anytime I try to turn it up they would squeak and pop sound a little blown so I'm like maybe it's just bad connection or you know bad sound coming through . I completely reground my truck new ground straps hole shot and hooked up a 200 watt amp to these which they should handle this not a problem cuz technically it's only running 120 RMS to four speakers mind you . And it just sounds worse . So I contacted CT sounds and ask them what I could do about it and you know they were sympathetic I guess and you know ask me to do a couple things I did . But then they literally want me to take video of them not working correctly which truthfully the way that I have it set up right now you can hear them but they don't crackle they're turned down so I would have to become a cinematic photographer to be able to adjust the levels to where they would squeak again and run the video camera at the same time . And to be honest I just don't want to deal with the hassle . and I didn't actually get a hold of them to get a refund or to get a warranty or anything like that I was just telling them that their product was garbage that's it and they wanted to go through with a whole return scenario which I guess is cool but the hoops you got to jump through to get a return it's just not worth it I mean I'm just going to buy another set of speakers anyways and change these ones out . And the magnet on the back of the speakers is massive you figure the submids would actually have some bass come out of them it's all tweeter and the speaker is so thick did it barely fits in my door and my window when it's rolled down touches the top of the magnet on the speaker . These are not good quality speakers they look like their quality they got good magnets on them but the sound that comes out of them is cheap at best I would never recommend these to anybody else ever .

I like these speakers but reading reviews here I expected better. I will say they look to be built well. I like the basket and push terminals.All the speakers that I buy have these features though so nothing to get excited about. I have been using CDT Audio speakers in my vehicles for over 10 years now and truly love their sound. By comparison the CT Sounds speakers do not have the same rich sound I'm used to. The tweeters over-shadow the mids IMO. I have them set to -3 in the X-overs and still they are too bright. I hate having to EQ but it is necessary with these tweets. They are 1" tweets in a housing for a 2" tweet lol. Way big and really uncalled for. It is like they want you to think their tweeter is much larger. It is not but the housing is so big. The X-overs get the job done and look nice enough but they are really a very basic passive x-over. Compared to all of the X-Overs that ship with CDT Audio components that i own, the CT sounds x-overs look cheap. I also do not like the plastic grills that ship with these. They look cheap and I think over time they will crack. I would have preferred a more traditional grill myself. I will give these speakers props for power handling. They claim 50 watts RMS per speaker but go on to say if adjusted properly (amp) they can take a lot more. Well I'm inclined to believe that boast as I am pushing up to 150 watts RMS @ 4 Ohms per speaker and they so far are handling that power without issue. I have them cut at 80 Hz. They get loud and do not distort...so far. Speaking of sound, SQ is ok. The sound coming out of these speakers is clean and clear but they do not have a richness to the sound. I'm spoiled by CDT Audio for sure. All of my CDT speakers are cut at 80 Hz too in my other vehicle and they sound so much nicer. Just as clean, just as clear, maybe even louder as they can handle more power but the difference in SQ is big IMO. They just sound so much nicer than the CT Sounds speakers. Don't get me wrong; the CT Sounds speakers do not sound bad. Just not as good as I'm used to. I like the sound enough that I plan to keep running them for now. At $68 they are a good deal IMO. I think if I had the 6.5" version I'd enjoy the sound more but the 5.25" components along with my sub sound pretty good and without a doubt get plenty loud. I'm already looking at new speakers that I may buy down the road if I decide I want to move on from CT Sounds but in the mean time I will put them through their paces and see how they handle it for awhile. Like I already said, they do sound decent and for the price you get a lot of bang for the buck,

I’ve been a professional audio installer for 8 years now. Decided to upgrade my truck and have always been a ct sounds fan. Let me tell you. It doesn’t get any better then this right here. These little things pack a hell of a punch. The quality is amazing and the volume is astonishing. I will be upgrading to the larger 6.5 full range set in the future when I get the gonads to cut into my truck haha. But for now, these are plenty more then enough. Wow is the only correct word