cab owner need better sound

[beany_man]

hi guy/gals


i need better sound quality in my car becoz at the mo i have gto speakers in the back and they are rubbish im not going to spend silly money but just enough to upgrade the fronts rears maybe tweats and an amp

any ideas peeps

Cheers

[Sjoerd320i]

kinda the same question as in the thread below mate
have a look in there

[Mike91318ic]

I have blaupunkt odx542 in the rear of my cabrio and they sound awesome. In case you are not aware 99% of 5.25" speakers don't fit back there cause the magnet hit the inner fender. The odx542's are you best option *IMO*. I also have Infinity Kappa components up front which are also a excellent speaker. To finish it all off I have two 10" dvc rockford fosgate subs. All speakers are powered by two RF amps and a one farad cap. Currently I'm using a older Sony HU that only has 2 volt pre outs a 1 bit dac. I'll be replacing that eventually but it's hard to find HU's with amber illumination and 4 volt pre outs with a good dac for a decent price.

Let me know if you want pics.
M
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4 ... bsnDhi1aNj

[mrLEE30]

Yep difficult in a cab without going to extreams of building custom door cards, and then of course you will loose you door pockets which a re handy in a cab.

I went for 1 12inch JBL sub run off an infinity 600W amp, in a ported sub-box with internal diameter of 3cubicfeet and a 13x3inch port firing sideways (you cant see it on the picture below. i now have the sub firing into the car as opposed to as the picture shows which i now think sounds better.

5 1/4 rear pioneer 3 way are run off a JVC head unit (which for info have an infinate amount of colour variations amber being one of them and the face has muliple tilt angles which is great in a cab with the roof down as you can actually see it) in the front i but 6inch JVC 3 way and dynamatted the inside of the door area, they are now run from the spare channel on the infinity amp.

it sounds great in the car roof up or down, another tip is to open your roof cover space, lift up the carpet and remove the five or six one inch rubber grommets, thus opening the holes into the boot space. then cut holes in the carpet inside the boot. this allows the sub to breathe a bit better as the cab boot is well sealed and air from your sub has difficulty in escapeing. dont go down the route of cutting holes behind you rear seat. and finally if you have it there is a hot air blower behind your rear seat which should act as the demister. i junked this and now use the power supply to power my sub, you only need to short out the micro switch inside the rood enclosure on the drivers side (LHD) then heres the bonus, you can turn on and off your amp with your demister switch, so if your in a dodgy area you can kill the bass instantly! the power supply is good for 30amp so more than powerful enough to handle most normal amps on the market.

good luck

mrlee