Well for starters, like others have told you, they are not meant to be mounted on a 45 degree angle, that is a huge no no. I have owned 3 sets of Veritas horns (and many compression drivers) and none needed huge amounts of EQing if mounted and set up properly. A good friend had the Veritas 75VD's (same as yours) in his car with the Alpine F#1 Status system, and Seas midbasses. It only required 2 bands of EQ, one cut about 2 db, and another 1 db... And before you start posting about the wonders of digital EQ's, keep in mind Jamie Edmundson won a world championship with a pair of Audiocontrol EQT's on his Veritas horns.

I have also owned 3 sets of Image horns as well, and have had good results. Any brand can work well in the right hands.

Horns come with a love hate relationship, basicaly you have to decide what is most important to you, and if horns fit the bill(ie-solid soundstage, dynamics, depth) give em a try. [img]graemlins/jammin.gif[/img]

 

I found along with a good eq, you will need some good x-over processing. It's nice to have the EQ'ing in any vehicle, horns or not. I found the horns I had (USD) needed alot of EQ'ing for RTA purposes.

 

I find the CD2's a lot tamer than the peaky CD1 Pro's. My CD2's required little EQ'ing, while the CD1 Pro's were quite "hot". The CD2 sounds a lot like a nice silk dome tweeter with the roll off on the top end.

There are several tricks to raise the soundstage in a car using HLCD's from dash mat's to various tuning techniques. What horns are you using, and what are your crossover/phase settings? What kind of car are they in? So many variables... [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]