Ok guys I had a recent thread stating I was getting back into car audio and had acquired a Scion 2006 Xb. So my stock system was sounding horrible and I decided to take a peek at what I had going on. Opened up the dash grills... nothing. No wonder I had no highs to speak of. Saw a Velocity brand midbass in the doors and much to my surprise a 4" Focal 100cv coaxial in the back of the car.
Took the tweeters from my Diamond Audio comp set and plugged them in, put a towel inside the dash to set it on, aimed them at the opposite seats(angle mount)fired it up and voila! Instant soundstage. Didn't want to blow my tweets so I ended up taking the focals out of the back and plugged them in the dash for now. Don't quite fit but good enough.
Anyways to say the least a huge improvement, but better yet it reminded me that a good 2 way can get plenty loud and stage really well. I had my heart set on a 3 way active with a mid in the dash and tweeter on the a-pillar, but I'm starting to realize I may be better off with a high quality 2 way and can add a third down the road. This saves me some money for the extra processing and amp channels too.
So basically I got a buyer for my previous system and have about a 300$ budget for a frontstage. Thinking since I have a huge dash speaker location I could get a really nice mid in the doors and large format, low playing tweeter in the dash that I can play with the aiming.
Probably going to get the budget Clarion 785USB unit so I can go active without external processing (assuming I can do a bandpass on the mids..). Had a JL Audio e6450 but I found a buyer and also located a pair of old school Soundstream D100's to run my fronts off of. So with this setup I'd like some suggestions for my budget. Considerations:
1. 6.5" in the door so I don't have to mod too much.
2. Good quality tweeter that can play low and decent off axis since it won't be on the a-pillars.
I'm not sure if I should shoot for about 150 a pair for mids and highs, or spring on some kick-ass tweets and keep my mids in the 100 a pair range. Or vice versa.. kick ass mids with 100$ tweets. Again assuming some old school D100's for power and the Clarion deck.
I'm considering a DIYMA 12" with a small under seat mountable class D amp to push it but right now that's the least of my worries. I've been reading the site for the last few weeks and know quite a few of the recommended setups, but considering I can use a large format home tweeter I figured I'd have a better option than those using small format auto tweeters.
Took the tweeters from my Diamond Audio comp set and plugged them in, put a towel inside the dash to set it on, aimed them at the opposite seats(angle mount)fired it up and voila! Instant soundstage. Didn't want to blow my tweets so I ended up taking the focals out of the back and plugged them in the dash for now. Don't quite fit but good enough.
Anyways to say the least a huge improvement, but better yet it reminded me that a good 2 way can get plenty loud and stage really well. I had my heart set on a 3 way active with a mid in the dash and tweeter on the a-pillar, but I'm starting to realize I may be better off with a high quality 2 way and can add a third down the road. This saves me some money for the extra processing and amp channels too.
So basically I got a buyer for my previous system and have about a 300$ budget for a frontstage. Thinking since I have a huge dash speaker location I could get a really nice mid in the doors and large format, low playing tweeter in the dash that I can play with the aiming.
Probably going to get the budget Clarion 785USB unit so I can go active without external processing (assuming I can do a bandpass on the mids..). Had a JL Audio e6450 but I found a buyer and also located a pair of old school Soundstream D100's to run my fronts off of. So with this setup I'd like some suggestions for my budget. Considerations:
1. 6.5" in the door so I don't have to mod too much.
2. Good quality tweeter that can play low and decent off axis since it won't be on the a-pillars.
I'm not sure if I should shoot for about 150 a pair for mids and highs, or spring on some kick-ass tweets and keep my mids in the 100 a pair range. Or vice versa.. kick ass mids with 100$ tweets. Again assuming some old school D100's for power and the Clarion deck.
I'm considering a DIYMA 12" with a small under seat mountable class D amp to push it but right now that's the least of my worries. I've been reading the site for the last few weeks and know quite a few of the recommended setups, but considering I can use a large format home tweeter I figured I'd have a better option than those using small format auto tweeters.