there will be no ore absrptive material used as i feel its not necessary, what do you think would still need to be done and where you you put it? and there are no more plans to change the interior. the goal was just to flatten out the dash and make it symetrical without getting to radical and it just kind of grew from there

the celing liner has been doubled up for sound absprption, the b pillars have been reupholstered in the same material as the dash, as is the rear deck and rear trim to the ceiling
underneath the grill for the rear woofers is 2" of anechoic foam. i cant cover up the windows in the front doors and winshiled but for sq judging, covers are going to be inserted over the rear door windows and back window as well as a full cover over the rear seat. initial listening test make me believe that there is enough sound absobtion done, i may use a dash pad for testing but so far i am quite happy with the way it sounds, but there is still lots of listening and experimenting to be done

 

sassmaster, the tweeters that alpine has and the ons from solen are totally different, they are built off the same platform as the rev, but the phase plug is different, the ribbed dome is different, the rear tuning chamber is different, so they are in fact a totally different tweeter and cant be purchased from solem for half the price, the tweeter that looks similar to it from solen are 479$ each, that a grand for the pair, the f#1 speakers i use are 2899.95 retail, now buy the mids, and build the x-overs the way alpine has and see if you can do it for 1400, considering the tweeters are a better part of 1000/pair, it cant be done

i covered this in the viod, i am likely the only one on this board that has ordered the speakers from solen and compared them with my eyes and ears against the f#1, they are different sounding, both sound very good, but they sound different and look different

[ May 28, 2005, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: defro13 ]

 

Come on, you know better than that...

 

I have heard that even when Alpine was using the Dynaudio's as their high end speaker back in the day, Alpine had specified some changes to them. Tiny differences in design may not be visible but can have a large effect on performance.

 

we are working on a lambrghini truck that had a whole bunch of the old dyn/alpine speakers in it. there are in very good shape. one of the guys at the shop is diong a retro system with gear all at least 10 years old, and the lambo just provided us with the speakers forit

 

lm0001 or something like that, the thing has bullet resistant tires, bullet proof doors, the lambo v12, and weighs 7800 ponds. this thing is a tank. used to be owned by syvester stallone, and my client bought it from him. they are very rare, i believe only 300 or so were ever made, they were $350000 new. it also have 2 treasures under the seat, 2 mint soundstream d100. upgrades are type x components in the factore door and rear celing locations with a kicker l5 8" between the rear seats and a new alpine 5 channel amp and alpine deck with ipod andaptor and sattelite radio

 

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I'd love to see pics of that truck!