Recent content by kcducttaper

For sure! Heck, they sound better than many $200 bookshelves. I legitimately don't know how they make money on those. Just the AMT is worth as much as the whole speaker costs! The woofer isn't too crazy special (I believe it was a GRS driver buy-out if I remember correctly), but that still...

Sure, they're not perfect as they're 'only' $50, but my point is, they sound way better than any $50 set of car speakers I've ever heard and I just had to be cranky about that for a little bit. :)

I've actually thought along those lines. Looking back, I legitimately wish I hadn't bought a set of Polk components and just got some Dayton drivers and designed a little XO myself. I've built some bookshelf speakers myself, so I have the tools, and knowledge, to design a proper XO. The Dayton...

I was afraid of that. I'm completely against spending over a grand just to make a car sound similar to a pair of $50 bookshelves. I was hoping there might be some tips/tricks up someone's sleeve that I hadn't thought of before. Apologies if that sounds condescending and I don't mean to be a...

Doing a brief google search, it looks like there is a small sub on the rear deck. Eyeballing, it looks like maybe an 8" or 10".

Thanks, but I'm talking about delaying the actual drivers after the crossover. Since the full-range signal is entering my doors via the same pair of wires and then being split by the passive crossover, how would I effectively delay the tweeters by just a tad to get the phase correct at the XO...

I'm getting ready to install some Polk DB6502 DB+ components into my Trailblazer and got to wondering... Since my ears would be significantly closer to the tweeters mounted higher on the door than the woofers at the bottom of the door - how would I time align them to get the phasing correct at...

I've had the Polk DB6502's in my wish list for a while now. After a couple glasses of wine, I saw they were on sale for $100 (I believe they come in pairs), so I ordered 2. My whip is a 2008 Chevy Trailblazer (short wheel-base version and non-bose). It has a 6.5" hole in each of the 4 doors and...

Thanks for the replies! Ultimately, I'm looking for "the best bass" I can get out of 6.5 components on a budget. Pretty much anything component will satisfy me in terms of clarity and response. Obviously, a proper sub setup would be ideal, but I'm not interested in sacrificing trunk space for...

How is the low end on them? Obviously, they're not gonna rattle things, but would I be consistently wishing I had a sub with these at casual listening levels? I'm not super locked-down at 100/pair, but I don't want to go much over that since I'm not building a crazy system. Just looking to...

No opinions? Is there a way to figure out how much bass any given driver will put out? In home audio, you have T/S parameters that can give you a good idea with box modeling. I presume, cars would be more or less an infinite baffle setup and I'd really like to see which 6.5 gives me "the best...

I was casually browsing the interwebz and found that a populat budget component combo is the Polk Audio DB6502. These look intriguing since they allegedly hit 35Hz. I'm sure that's a bit of an exaggeration, or they were using different measurement techniques than I'll be using them in, but they...

I recently bought a Trailblazer (non-EXT version). The previous owner bought some el-cheapo Kenwood Road Series speakers in there and they're...well....awful. My EQ curve looks like a drunken rollercoaster just to make it sound half way decent. Even still, there's not much detail and they sound...

I just purchased a new-to-me 2008 Chevy Trailblazer. It's the short wheel base version and does not have the Bose option. When I purchased it, the previous owner had already installed some Kenwood 6.5" speakers in all 4 doors. After I purchased it, I found that the stock radio head unit was shot...