When I swap my stock '02 speakers out I was going to drop the new ones right in the door where the stock ones came out. Would the speakers produce better sound by actually being mounted ON the door? (making cutouts and using the aftermarket speaker grill as opposed to having the sound travel through the punched out wholes in the door)

Does this make sense to anybody? Anyone have any experience either way?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ajjra
[B]When I swap my stock '02 speakers out I was going to drop the new ones right in the door where the stock ones came out.

 

yes.
probably not worth the massive effort required to pull this off... plus, your new mounting board would be a much more flexible surface (vs the metal stock mounts), which is much more likely to resonate, rattle, and discolor your sound... not to mention the difficulty that would arise from trying to seal the back of the speaker...

i'm thinking that while this sounds ok in theory - it's probably a huge mistake waiting to happen...

 

LOL! Didn't think about the vibration issue. good point. My god, the vibration coming off my cat-back exhaust is probably going to destroy the sound quality coming from the speakers, right?

I am considering a 600.4 amp. Putting 150 to each of the channels (@ 2 ohms, I am told I cannot do 4 Ohms b/c they are compnent speakers) Than Bridging the leftover 300 to a sub which I am going to mount god knows where.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ajjra
[B]When I swap my stock '02 speakers out I was going to drop the new ones right in the door where the stock ones came out.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ajjra
[B]LOL!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mgiang7
[B]

hmm i think you're off here.

 

the speakers determine what the amp will run at. if you have 4 ohm speakers, you'd have to do some wiring to get them to run at 2ohm (at the expense of stereo control).


for the most part with component speakers, you'll be running your amp @ 4ohm.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mgiang7
[B]the speakers determine what the amp will run at.

 

i'm running components now, trust me it's 4ohm.

he's probably thinking 2ohm because you technically have 2 speakers in a component set, a midbass and a tweeter.

but those are run off the same x-over that splits the signal to each speaker. so it's only a 4ohm load, you're not wiring the tweeter and mid-bass in parrallel to get the load down (which is what you'd have to do to turn 2 4ohm speakers into a 2ohm load).


mmm, go to another shop

in general you only do fancy wiring (like parrallel or serial) with subwoofers to change the final load to the amp. for speakers (again in general) if you buy 4 ohm speakers, they will present 4 ohm to the amp--even for components.