Hey all... need your advice...

Do you think I'll have trouble having a 3-way component system (6.5" Bass, 4" Midrange, 1" Tweeter) with the 6.5" in the door, and both the 4" midrange & 1" tweeter in the rollbars (S-pods)? Technically they wouldn't be rear speakers unless they were somehow able to split up... so I'm thinking it might be off balance with the mid and tweeter so close and the 6.5" further away. Being that I probably couldn't control the volume of each, I'm not so sure it'd sound right??

I plan on using the 4ch Amp to power everything at 4ohm... Speakers at 150w x 2 and the Sub at 300w x 1 (channel 3 and 4 bridged) -- hoping I can do this combination as well...

Speakers:
http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_c...hp?comp_id=121
Amp:
http://www.alpine-usa.com/en/products/prod...#9001;=en&tab=F
Sub:
http://infinitysystems.com/caraudio/...er=KPE&Cat=SUB
Receiver:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...tailsComponent


Thanks -- any help is greatly appreciated!!

-Troy

 

IT will not sound good. Each component needs to be a certain distance from the other, otherwise the sound gets massively distorted. Just get good quality 6.5" components, and you are golden!

 

Yeah that will sound horrible most likely. I couldn't imagine most of the midrange and all of the highs coming from beind your head and only mid bass up front...

 

Eek....

I've already bought the 3-way components so I'm sticking with them...

Any more input would be great... I really wanted this to work out!!!

 

Never really understood responses like that... "Any more input would be great..." 3 way components are designed to work within a certain distance of each other. Have you ever seen an In home speaker? See how the low/mid/high are close together? You will need to have them all mounted in the door to achieve a good sound. I suggest you think hard, and take my advice, return the 3 ways are get 2 ways....or else you might be getting an I-told-you-so in the near future. Just trying to give you the best advice.

 

the mod's never wrong

installing 3-way (or even 2-way) components far apart is never a good idea.

I have no idea how you'd install a 3-way set in this car. There's really no kick-panel room. The door would be way intense. No space!

I'd say you return the set or sell it.

 

I am wrong on occasion, but not this one. Your ear will be trying to focus on one area for sound, and since it cannot focus on all three locations, a certain frequency will be missing. Whatever you decide, good luck.

 

NFRs2000 --- thank you for your input. I appreciate it... just that not many people have listened to 3-way components (I don't see them anywhere) and am just looking for people who might have had an ear-on experience with a setup like mine.

In the manual the tweeters should be no less that 4in apart from the midrange, so I got that part down... but it also says that you can have the woofer up to 18" away without degrading sound quality. Although I realize the roll bars are a good 3 feet away, it shouldn't be too bad - but I'm probably just in denial. The crossovers DO have an adjustable tweeter level to them... 4 settings, +1.5db, Reference, -1.5db, and -3db so that could help too.

 

It's not just the distance from the woofer IMO, the sound stage will suck because all but the mid-bass are behind your head. You will not have a good sound stage and the imaging will be quite bad. Mids and highs are very directional, the low end isn't so much.

Basically if you close your eyes you will picture youself at a concert, walking AWAY from the stage. Not the best config in my opinion.

 

If you put the woofer in the door and the midrange/tweeter in the roll bar, your soundstage will totally suck.

Everyone's free to try whatever they want and if you like the way it sounds, then that's all that matters.

I would never bother trying it, though.