jsnone1
11-04-2004, 07:43 PM
Ok, going to replace stereo in the TA, should I go for two component systems or just one for the front and regular 6 3/4" speakers for the back seat?
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2FAST4U
11-04-2004, 08:25 PM
I am a big fan of MB Quarts P or Q. You can center mount the tweeter if you want! And b/c they are components the crossovers can still be adjusted!
Tom L. Busby
11-07-2004, 07:05 PM
Consider spending extra on the front components and deleting the sail panel speakers in the rear. I put JBL 6 1/2" speakers in the sail panels but I then didn't like the band-in-the-back sound, so made passive cross-overs for the sail panels speakers and now they make sound from 80 up to 300 and then are 12db down at 600. The I found that that the cabin-size creates a large sound boost at 120-200, so with the sail panels that i have, I have to cut the output there anyway with the parametric in the HU.
I should have just skipped the sail panel speakers. I was thinking though, I would be losing some sound output, because my sail panels were wired in parallel (resulting in 2 ohms) with the front components so they shared the amp channel. Like more sound at the same dollar point on the amp. But I was with that concept.
People told me to delete the sail panel speakers before I started but I ignored them because I didn't understand it but later I found out WHY they were right.
But maybe if you put 8" speakers in the sail panels and passivley crossed them so they run only up to about 100 and are 12 db down at 200 (or maybe even lower) they might add something to help the lack of volume at 100 compared to the large cabin boost at 120-200.
If you make a tone generator CD you can hear the cabin boost I am writing about. This may help you decide in advance anstead of after you do an instal you have to change. You can use the tone generator to make data files of about 30 tracks that start at 10 cycles and sweep up in increments of 10 cycles, so "track 1" starts at 10 and "track 2" starts at 20 cycles, etc. The make an audio file out of the data tracks when you burn the CD. That way you can just look at head unit track number and multiply by 10 to figure the frequencies where you hear the cabin boost. Download the tone generator here: http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/ The free version does what you need for what I am describing. You can easily locate panels rattles with this test CD too -- a lot easy than with music that changes frequency too quickly.
I should have just skipped the sail panel speakers. I was thinking though, I would be losing some sound output, because my sail panels were wired in parallel (resulting in 2 ohms) with the front components so they shared the amp channel. Like more sound at the same dollar point on the amp. But I was with that concept.
People told me to delete the sail panel speakers before I started but I ignored them because I didn't understand it but later I found out WHY they were right.
But maybe if you put 8" speakers in the sail panels and passivley crossed them so they run only up to about 100 and are 12 db down at 200 (or maybe even lower) they might add something to help the lack of volume at 100 compared to the large cabin boost at 120-200.
If you make a tone generator CD you can hear the cabin boost I am writing about. This may help you decide in advance anstead of after you do an instal you have to change. You can use the tone generator to make data files of about 30 tracks that start at 10 cycles and sweep up in increments of 10 cycles, so "track 1" starts at 10 and "track 2" starts at 20 cycles, etc. The make an audio file out of the data tracks when you burn the CD. That way you can just look at head unit track number and multiply by 10 to figure the frequencies where you hear the cabin boost. Download the tone generator here: http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/ The free version does what you need for what I am describing. You can easily locate panels rattles with this test CD too -- a lot easy than with music that changes frequency too quickly.