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So I finally get the chance to throw coin down on my dream car. (Test drive? No, that's not necessary.) Once I stopped lusting over my fresh out of highschool dreams it hit me like a ton of bricks... Wow the stock speakers in this car image so poorly. The OEM stage is 32 feet long and 4 feet wide and it sounds like a ****ty little bandpassed speaker is playing from 20 feet in front of the windshield. It's like listening to music playing in the background of a telephone call. You can't even begin to appreciate how bad they sound because of the stage.
First step see what we can do with the stock speakers. I started with a cheapo Dayton 408, power to the OE speakers, and a 12W3 to fill it out. Still without and mic + REW I started with a base 2ms delay drivers to passengers side and 8ms tweeter to woofer. I'm able to place the stage on the dash by putting 1ms between the tweeters and mids and 1.75 between the left and right channels. A DSP can do wonders, can't wait till the computer autotunes for me. But now that it images well playing at anything resembling a fun listening volume and the speakers break up. It was a fun experiment, but time to get serious, budget serious!
Morel CCWR254
Revelators
IDMax12
Soundstream Picasso Nano 650.1 and 640.5 (The cheapest amps you can find)
I am considering throwing in a tweeter, but for now it's got plenty up top.
The Morels fit very nicely in the OEM tweeter location, which leaves a bit to be desired. The driver mounts like 6 to 8 inches away from the windshield and is missing out on some possible windshield horn loading. Or there is plenty of room to mount a tweeter right with it, but if I'm firing mid and tweeter at the windshield I think I'd want the mid closer to the windshield than the tweeter? Either way I'm eventually going to hog the plastic out and make a proper baffle for the morels. What does this mean? Does it mean the speaker is practically hanging from fishing wire being held on with two screws to a delrin mount? Yes. The stock grills just mutilated the sound coming from the speakers. After driving around with them off for a few weeks I decided to just upholster them.
The ScanSpeaks fit wonderfully in the doors. Basic 1" MDF ring (the baffle is 3/4") mounted on closed cell foam. Had to take just a little bit off the door cards to get them to sit comfortably over the top of the revelators.
IDMax 12 in a ~2cu sealed box. At some point I realized I don't give a **** about trunk space and this is my dream build so I've got an IDMAX 15 that I'll run inverted in a prefab box. Once I find a place where I can construct a baffle I'll swap to IB. #Apartment life #COVID life #Anyone in SD? Worst case is I build it in a parking lot with a couple 18v tools, but I'd like to avoid that. Since I'm limited to 10 pictures here is a shot of the 15.
Still gotta get a mic so I can actually see what's going on. It sounds great but there is still lots of untidiness from the combs and from the doors resonating. I wanted to avoid CLD + MLV and only rely on CCF for rattles - but that doesn't seem likely. Besides, what's the harm in doing just the doors good? I'll add some CLD for the resonance and isolated MLV to block the wave.
Thanks for listening!

First step see what we can do with the stock speakers. I started with a cheapo Dayton 408, power to the OE speakers, and a 12W3 to fill it out. Still without and mic + REW I started with a base 2ms delay drivers to passengers side and 8ms tweeter to woofer. I'm able to place the stage on the dash by putting 1ms between the tweeters and mids and 1.75 between the left and right channels. A DSP can do wonders, can't wait till the computer autotunes for me. But now that it images well playing at anything resembling a fun listening volume and the speakers break up. It was a fun experiment, but time to get serious, budget serious!
Morel CCWR254
Revelators
IDMax12
Soundstream Picasso Nano 650.1 and 640.5 (The cheapest amps you can find)
I am considering throwing in a tweeter, but for now it's got plenty up top.
Rich (BB code):
The ScanSpeaks fit wonderfully in the doors. Basic 1" MDF ring (the baffle is 3/4") mounted on closed cell foam. Had to take just a little bit off the door cards to get them to sit comfortably over the top of the revelators.
IDMax 12 in a ~2cu sealed box. At some point I realized I don't give a **** about trunk space and this is my dream build so I've got an IDMAX 15 that I'll run inverted in a prefab box. Once I find a place where I can construct a baffle I'll swap to IB. #Apartment life #COVID life #Anyone in SD? Worst case is I build it in a parking lot with a couple 18v tools, but I'd like to avoid that. Since I'm limited to 10 pictures here is a shot of the 15.
Still gotta get a mic so I can actually see what's going on. It sounds great but there is still lots of untidiness from the combs and from the doors resonating. I wanted to avoid CLD + MLV and only rely on CCF for rattles - but that doesn't seem likely. Besides, what's the harm in doing just the doors good? I'll add some CLD for the resonance and isolated MLV to block the wave.
Thanks for listening!