Raising the frontstage?
08-03-2004, 12:45 PM
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Hi
I currently have kicks with 4" & tweeters in them. Also, 6" midbass in the doors.
Somebody told me that by adding a decent pair of rear speakers & with time delay. The front soundstage can be raised and the depth can be increased.
The car is a VW GOLF III.
I currently have kicks with 4" & tweeters in them. Also, 6" midbass in the doors.
Somebody told me that by adding a decent pair of rear speakers & with time delay. The front soundstage can be raised and the depth can be increased.
The car is a VW GOLF III.
08-03-2004, 01:14 PM
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nope! In my experience, a decent set of metal tweets, up in the dash or pillars, crossed over very high, can raise and broaden your stage. I have tried rears, and dash tweets, and the rears sucked. This comming from someone who loves listening to music in surround.
That's my $.2
That's my $.2
08-03-2004, 01:54 PM
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You can achieve a better sound stage many ways. Try playing with the Phase of the drivers. First thing I would do would be to flip the passanger 4" mid out of phase with the rest of the system. If you have an Eq raise around 1K about 1-2DB.. Try that see what you get.
08-03-2004, 02:07 PM
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the problems you are having will be very difficult to rectify with door midbass and 4" midrange, the phase and time issues that are inherent in this install method will cause many issues, the main one being the rainbow effect that kick panel mounting of midrange will give you and the phase/time issue between the doors and the floor, try mounting a pillar tweeter crosses over around 7k and limit the floor tweeter to lopasss at 7k, using the steepest slpoes you can use. i sure hope you have active x-overs or your experimenting will be time consuming and costly
08-03-2004, 06:45 PM
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the height in the center of the dash is at dash height (or the air vent height).
I have a slight rainbow effect.
The passives are fixed x-over points. 400Hz highpassed for mid & not sure about tweeter. 400Hz low passed for midbass and I use active highpass at 63Hz, therfore I have a bandpass for midbass.
The sub plays 63Hz and lower.
playing "air" means high passing the 2nd set of tweeters at 10Khz or higher. So, it plays just the top edge.
I have a slight rainbow effect.
The passives are fixed x-over points. 400Hz highpassed for mid & not sure about tweeter. 400Hz low passed for midbass and I use active highpass at 63Hz, therfore I have a bandpass for midbass.
The sub plays 63Hz and lower.
playing "air" means high passing the 2nd set of tweeters at 10Khz or higher. So, it plays just the top edge.
