Speaker install help... how to guide?

[Andrew162]

Try bluetacking the tweeter in different locations, even different on each sides to get the best sound. having it too far away from the woofer/mid may separate the levels and localise the different frequencies from each.

some splits these days actually come with a location and distance chart for the correct positioning and frequencies, for which you can adjust the jumpers on the crossovers to get the freq's just nice for your woofer/tweeter locations. I have Apline Type-X in mine and they balance nice with the rear stage... admittedly I HAVE a rear stage (read: parcel shelf) but also comparatively a newer Celica too. I spent 3 weeks over xmas/NY last year getting this sound system working, and I managed to install it all myself. my crossover's are mounted either side of my gearstick as there were physically no other viable places to mount them. but every car has it's pro's and con's... I have no pods for bigger front speakers where most other cars do, I have a parcel shelf, others don't... locations for speakers and subs/amps differ... yada yada.

[clubagreenie]

Yes you can phase switch (or just connect in reverse one of) the tweeters to reverse phase (usually the closer) so it acts out of synch to the other thus altering the time the wave takes to reach the listener, however this makes it absolutly crap for the passenger with marked phase shift in the stage.

Better to have a time shift processor (alpine ued to make one, so did alesis) that had fied mics installed and sampled the vehicle and adjusted the outputs to each speaker according to the selected number of passengers and their seating location. Such tech, the ability to perform quality installs and good knowledge seem to have disappeared along with my desire to share much of my knowledge as todays youth don't want to learn, when they can pay for the afore mentioned crap.

Ask me how to make 100dB + from <50w and one speaker.

[Spectre]

I had 6x9's in the rear, with 6" splits in the front. I used a small 'pod' for the fronts, and mounted the crossovers behind the centre console!