I'm improving my car audio on the cheap, and Google is not much help -- the sheer level of noise and nonsense on ter interwebs makes reading up a bit fruitless. I'm moderately ignorant about car sound. :thinking:
I currently have some moderately cheapo Kenwood 6x9s in the back. I'm thinking I should replace them with a 6" and tweeter combo, which I can pick up for about R850. I'm driving them off a low end 4-channel Starsound amp. At least with a split system I can get the high-low balance a bit more tuned using the amps. I'm driving the front from the head - Hertz tweeters and fairly decent 5" mids.
So - questions:
* it would be a lot easier to just drop some better 6x9s in the back. Would a 6"/tweeter combo be a lot better than 6x9, or not worth the extra hassle? The 6x9s are mounted solidly (6mm masonite and lots of epoxy)
* if I was to use a split system, is it better to drive the mid/woofs and tweeters directly from dedicated channels on the amp using the amp's built in low/high filter, or drive them from one of the channel pairs using a split system with matched XO e.g. this Apline split w XO http://www.autostyle.co.za/car-audio-1/speakers-and-split-systems/alpine-spg-17cs-280w-6-split-system.html
There's a Pioneer split (without XO) http://www.autostyle.co.za/car-audio-1/speakers-and-split-systems/pioneer-ts-a1604c-6-350w-split-system.html
* The front mid drivers are not doing a huge amount of low end. They're mounted very solidly (two layers of 6mm masonite epoxied together and bolted onto the door frame with more epoxy). I suspect I need to put some damping in the door -- is it that the heads have little oomph and I should rather drive them from an external amp? Would be easy to drive them from the Starsound amp in the boot, but then I'd have to keep one pair of channels front, one rear.
* The amp has remote power enable -- so if I turn the car on from completely off it's fine, but if I turn on ignition when accessory is already on (i.e. radio already playing) I get a big thump. Would a big capacitor fix this? Or is there a solution... amp is wired basically directly from battery.
I don't want to have to put in a sub as I don't want to take up boot space.
I currently have some moderately cheapo Kenwood 6x9s in the back. I'm thinking I should replace them with a 6" and tweeter combo, which I can pick up for about R850. I'm driving them off a low end 4-channel Starsound amp. At least with a split system I can get the high-low balance a bit more tuned using the amps. I'm driving the front from the head - Hertz tweeters and fairly decent 5" mids.
So - questions:
* it would be a lot easier to just drop some better 6x9s in the back. Would a 6"/tweeter combo be a lot better than 6x9, or not worth the extra hassle? The 6x9s are mounted solidly (6mm masonite and lots of epoxy)
* if I was to use a split system, is it better to drive the mid/woofs and tweeters directly from dedicated channels on the amp using the amp's built in low/high filter, or drive them from one of the channel pairs using a split system with matched XO e.g. this Apline split w XO http://www.autostyle.co.za/car-audio-1/speakers-and-split-systems/alpine-spg-17cs-280w-6-split-system.html
There's a Pioneer split (without XO) http://www.autostyle.co.za/car-audio-1/speakers-and-split-systems/pioneer-ts-a1604c-6-350w-split-system.html
* The front mid drivers are not doing a huge amount of low end. They're mounted very solidly (two layers of 6mm masonite epoxied together and bolted onto the door frame with more epoxy). I suspect I need to put some damping in the door -- is it that the heads have little oomph and I should rather drive them from an external amp? Would be easy to drive them from the Starsound amp in the boot, but then I'd have to keep one pair of channels front, one rear.
* The amp has remote power enable -- so if I turn the car on from completely off it's fine, but if I turn on ignition when accessory is already on (i.e. radio already playing) I get a big thump. Would a big capacitor fix this? Or is there a solution... amp is wired basically directly from battery.
I don't want to have to put in a sub as I don't want to take up boot space.
