Wake, 1sty, need an opinion!

[Joker_Fl]

Hey guys, im thinking about stickin my UR2.5 in my dash of my protege. I was looking at pillar pods with the tweeter. not sure if id like the bulkyness though.

Im seriously concidering cuting the 3" hole in the dash (upper-left under the vin tag and oppisite location on the right side.) Either of you guys seen this? I am not sure how it would look, laid the grills on the dash last night and liked it. I am not completly sure I want to do this. The hole in the dash doesn't bother me, im not planning on selling the car, prolly just drive it into the ground. What do you guys think?

Anyone else good with photoshop? Any pictures of this allready done.

Jeff

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[FrigginGLI]

I think on the gallery on the DLS page , there was a setup like this that I saw. Might of been on there show car. I'll look for it

 

[FrigginGLI]

Here ya go , found it.

 

[got wake?]

i can say that the dome mid-ranges are designed for superior off-axis performance. but rather than cutting up your dash, why not mount the mid-bass in the doors and the mid-range in kick panels?

 

[Joker_Fl]

man i wish i could do kicks....just not possible. I wear a size 13.5 shoe and there isn't that much room for me down there. If I was gonna do kicks i prolly would put the 10's in em!!

Pimp...Yea thats what im lookin at!....wonder how it would look on the protege?

 

[Joker_Fl]

oh and with the dash...i allready lined up a spare today!! Just in case something goes wrong...or i decide that one 3" midrange isn't sufficient (evil)

 

[Poseur]

IS there any kind of bracing underneath that's gonna get in the way? I was looking at my dash thinking about hat kind of setup as I was driving today, and that location for the speakers really doesn't seem allthat optimal. FOr one, they won't necessarily be ustilizing the window for a direct reflection, rather I can see sound jsut sorta following it upwards. Infact, it would appear as though you've got potential there to have your soundstage too high if that makes any sense. A 3" dome midrange, however SHOULD fit without taking up much footroom. You'd simply just put it up high in the kick. Really wouldn't even have to get it down below anywhere that's normal exposed carpet currently. I'd simply glass it into a stock panel. This would leave it way above where your feet would be unless you somehow strangely contort. The only inconvenience, really would be that you'd have to pull your kickpanel to get to your fusebox.

 

[got wake?]

damn. well try the dash and see how it sounds. i hope you've got time alignment on your HU or processor

 

[Joker_Fl]

Im just toying with the idea right now. I kinda wanted to stay away from the kicks and the doors. The a-pillars looked good but don't know if i could stand that size of a pod on the a-pillar that sized. I have seen it on an F150 and a focus....It wasn't too bad and they were both done in tan. The tan seemed to make it stick out alittle more than it actually did.

Ill lay the speakers out and take some pics....maybe I can make my mind up that way
Jeff

 

[Joker_Fl]

I do have the time alignment too (yippy)

 

[Joker_Fl]

Here we go...placed em in the car...fell asleep listening to enya. This is where they are goin. Now get Audionutz to do the glass work.

 

[FrigginGLI]

Thats gonna sound sweet. But might be overpowering.

 

[Joker_Fl]

I should be able to control that issue (overpowering) with the EQ, there are also gonna be Morel 10s in the doors so it should even up some. The Tweets and the mids will run off of two channels of the TU-4360 while the 10s will take up the other two channels. Just have to try and see.

 

[got wake?]

i've been going back and forth about mouting the 3" from my 6.3's up in the a-pillars, but i think it would be too big of a pod for me. i was trying to keep everything stock looking, if possible.

 

[Joker_Fl]

ive seen em done several times mounted sideways on the pillar. They sound OK but like you, I thought the pod was a little too big. I think the way ive got them sitting in the photo gives a little lower profile and gives you a greater range of "clean" sound, at least it did to me.

Jeff

 

[got wake?]

that's cool. i know scott recomended that i try varios locations and angles, but he said that in all his testing, the domes and tweets both sounded best when mounted facing each other. course my kick panels don't have enough room to mount them there, so i'm putting them in the doors with the 6.5, for now.

 

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

damn now there's all kinds of people buying dls. it's getting popular... must... stay... underground...

the imaging looks like it would suck royal with speakers like that. but you can tune all that out. that's gonna take a grip of work tho.

 

[Joker_Fl]

The imageing was allmost perfect with the speakers like that, with hardly any time alignment modifications. I did not change much on my EQ which made for some interesting midrange over-powering th rest. All in all it seemed to be the closest that ive got to the image that I want. And as far as the work to do that pffshhh, I aint doin it Steven Head is. I am waaaay to lazy to fiberglass anything else!

I like the way they sounded facing each other, the only real problem i had was the width of the sound stage.....way to narrow in the P5. I wider vehicle...say a truck...it sould sound perfect!!

Jeff