2003 VW GTi fiberglass door pod build\deadening for SEAS 8" CA21REX

[req]

it would take a lot of effort to move all the images and content over here, so take a gander.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showth...=1#post4674131

if you want me to do it i will

[FrankstonCarAudio]

Looking great!
When you said in your original thread, that these things were BIG, you weren't wrong!

Vinyl is going on.... ?

I can't believe you did all that in the street!... with an inverter for power!
Incredible!

Mark

[spudracer326]

as always awsome work!!!!! woot!!!

and also big props for doing that in the street, with an inverter...freakin impressive...

[SiR_Dave]

Interesting.... how many square feet did you have to use on each door to keep the 8`s a bay

[req]

yea it was rediclious. i also built the sub baffle in the street, without an inverter. that was a damn challenge - all i had was a drill and a jigsaw.


ill prolly move all the pictures over to this forum after work.

thanks for the compliments!



as far as the square footage, i cant recall how much i used, but it was 4 layers on the inside of the door, and mostly 4 layers under the plastic door panel on that removable metal piece. my doors didnt rattle before, i mostly did it for road noise and i was already balls deep, i figured i should do it while i had a chance. hahaha. you in the navy? japan\cali? west coast boat? GW maybe?

[captainobvious]

What the hell happened to the ride? By "aperidodic", did you mean 'spontaneously combustable' ?
That really sux. I had an 03 Gti in silver as well. Loved it. How dis those seas midbasses sound and which tweeters were you using?

[Megalomaniac]

Originally Posted by captainobvious

What the hell happened to the ride? By "aperidodic", did you mean 'spontaneously combustable' ?
That really sux. I had an 03 Gti in silver as well. Loved it. How dis those seas midbasses sound and which tweeters were you using?

that pic was photo chopped

[req]

thanks for the clarification meg. ;P


ive had a few hours of audition behind these puppies, and i am extremely happy with the stage height this has given me right out of the box.

i have the passenger side horn 180 degrees out of phase, along with the passenger side tweeter (yes i have a small tweet playing from about 6k+ at -7db to help with height and imaging) also out of phase 180 degrees. both midbass are in phase or else they sound hollow and the center image gets all fuzzed up.

im trying to figure out how i should go about with time alignment. i know i need to implement it, and i have free reign with phase, t\a, crossovers + slopes, and level adjustment with the H701... not to mention individual 31 band EQ for midbass and for tweets+horns and then again for subs. i wish there was a strictly LEFT and then a RIGHT and then a summed EQ of both you could play with instead of EQ for each speaker kind of dealie.


but i am not sure how to T\A horns. and i need to wait for my RTA mic to get here (left it at a friends place 4 hours away lol) before i want to get brave with the EQ.

any pointers for tuning would be helpful, because it is - in my opinion - very hard to tune a stereo. first off i dont really know what material to listen to. id guess something that has a good center instrument\vocal and what not, i tried doing some t\a by ear with pink noise but i dont think i got anywhere with it. 6 channel t\a by ear is nothing short of a miracle.


so any pointers or tips? listening material recommended?

thanks for looking guys.

[Autiophile]

Do you have any of the audionutz discs? I used them to set up my system after getting a reference by playing them on my home system.

[req]

all i have is the iasca disc. thats about it.

[bretti_kivi]

there's a mini-active tuning guide from mwv2....

[req]

Originally Posted by bretti_kivi

there's a mini-active tuning guide from mwv2....

- - A Mini Tuning Guide for the Active User - -

i have read it a few times.

but all the stuff he is explaining is assuming you know what you are listening for. i dont have any reference material besides pink noise, and i can not tell a huge difference between each channel and all this stuff he is saying to look for. i guess i dont have golden ears or something.

i had a music engineer friend of mine do some stuff at his university for me. he made 3 loops, one center, one panned left, and one panned right of a simple track. this way i know what im listening for and where it should be because he panned them to those locations himself.

that will help set the levels and maybe some T\A but honestly all this use your ears stuff really does not help because my stereo is the best stereo i have ever got a chance to audition in. i have nothing to reference it to lol.

eeh.

i guess ill just guess then.