evilsaint 10+ year member
CarAudio.com Elite
Alright, right off the bat, i'll say it - My system has great bass (minus rattling), but everything else sounds kind of bad. That's why i'm asking you guys for help. Mostly everyone here seems to know more than the people on any other caraudio board out there. Anyways, here it goes....
My front stage is too narrow, too low, and it seems to move every time I change the volume significantly. The balancing of low, mids, and highs goes like this - lows and midbass are practically non-existant from my interior speakers, and on bass heavy music, it seems like the only bass in the car is from the k's roaring in the trunk.
The mids have decent separation and clarity on less involved music, and sound fine at lower volume levels, but when it comes to what I call "complicated" music (most of S.C.I.E.N.C.E from Incubus, almost all of KoRn, some MudVayne, etc) they tend to get muddy, and sort of mixed up sounding.
The highs aren't too sharp or dull, but they don't play at the same level as the mids or the lows, and you can't usually hear when they start or end as clearly as you should be able to. (essentially attack and decay, right?)
My setup is listed in my sig, and i'm upgrading a lot of the stuff in my system in the very near future, which is part of my query to you guys. I personally suspect that the mid-bass problem, and hopefully a few of the others are caused by the fact that my front speakers don't seal correctly against the mounting locations.
The stockers in the front of my car were 5.25's, and despite having no problems drilling new holes for the 6.5 bostons, the locations aren't flat. They are basically rings, but the actual sections with the screw holes in them are raised from the rest. Also, for the most part, they play into your legs and bounce the music in unpredictable directions.
I'll be shipping out my 6x9's to a guy tomorrow, and I have adapters on the way to put my bostons in the rear locations, so i'm looking for 5.25" components to put in front.
My first question is: What kind of components would be the best to give my system a wider, taller soundstage while also adding accurate mid-bass, well separated mids, and highs balanced out with the mids and the lows? I need something that can handle a decent amount of power, and definitely something that can get really loud if necessary while still maintaing a reasonable semblance of their normal SQ. As detailed as that question is, I also understand how vague it is.
Put as basically as possible, for somewhere around $200-$250, NIB, or lightly used, what would be the best components to give my system a larger, more dynamic front stage?
The items mentioned as coming soon in my sig will be arriving in just about a week, and the PPI at least should help out with some of the separation and clarity issues.
My second question is simpler, and will end this fit of rambling: Where should I mount the tweeters of the comp. set, and how high up?
Any comments, even @ssinine ones, will be greatly appeciated. Thanks in advance for the help/input, and good luck understanding even half of this without getting a migraine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
96' Bonneville SSEi
Alpine 7977
4 Year Old Alpine 4 Channel 55wx4
(Soon to be PPI A404.2 Art Series)
Boston Rally 6.5" Front,
MBQuart 6x9" Rear
Streetwires 6.0 Interconnects,
and SW power/ground/distro all around.
JBL BP1200.1 (Soon to be Cadence Z7000)
2 Elemental E12KD4's
My front stage is too narrow, too low, and it seems to move every time I change the volume significantly. The balancing of low, mids, and highs goes like this - lows and midbass are practically non-existant from my interior speakers, and on bass heavy music, it seems like the only bass in the car is from the k's roaring in the trunk.
The mids have decent separation and clarity on less involved music, and sound fine at lower volume levels, but when it comes to what I call "complicated" music (most of S.C.I.E.N.C.E from Incubus, almost all of KoRn, some MudVayne, etc) they tend to get muddy, and sort of mixed up sounding.
The highs aren't too sharp or dull, but they don't play at the same level as the mids or the lows, and you can't usually hear when they start or end as clearly as you should be able to. (essentially attack and decay, right?)
My setup is listed in my sig, and i'm upgrading a lot of the stuff in my system in the very near future, which is part of my query to you guys. I personally suspect that the mid-bass problem, and hopefully a few of the others are caused by the fact that my front speakers don't seal correctly against the mounting locations.
The stockers in the front of my car were 5.25's, and despite having no problems drilling new holes for the 6.5 bostons, the locations aren't flat. They are basically rings, but the actual sections with the screw holes in them are raised from the rest. Also, for the most part, they play into your legs and bounce the music in unpredictable directions.
I'll be shipping out my 6x9's to a guy tomorrow, and I have adapters on the way to put my bostons in the rear locations, so i'm looking for 5.25" components to put in front.
My first question is: What kind of components would be the best to give my system a wider, taller soundstage while also adding accurate mid-bass, well separated mids, and highs balanced out with the mids and the lows? I need something that can handle a decent amount of power, and definitely something that can get really loud if necessary while still maintaing a reasonable semblance of their normal SQ. As detailed as that question is, I also understand how vague it is.
Put as basically as possible, for somewhere around $200-$250, NIB, or lightly used, what would be the best components to give my system a larger, more dynamic front stage?
The items mentioned as coming soon in my sig will be arriving in just about a week, and the PPI at least should help out with some of the separation and clarity issues.
My second question is simpler, and will end this fit of rambling: Where should I mount the tweeters of the comp. set, and how high up?
Any comments, even @ssinine ones, will be greatly appeciated. Thanks in advance for the help/input, and good luck understanding even half of this without getting a migraine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
96' Bonneville SSEi
Alpine 7977
4 Year Old Alpine 4 Channel 55wx4
(Soon to be PPI A404.2 Art Series)
Boston Rally 6.5" Front,
MBQuart 6x9" Rear
Streetwires 6.0 Interconnects,
and SW power/ground/distro all around.
JBL BP1200.1 (Soon to be Cadence Z7000)
2 Elemental E12KD4's
