EJ1 wilcox

Here's my situation.

I got some really cheap Diamond Audio Hex 5.25" components from a friend, but I'd like to use a 6.5" mid bass rather than the smaller 5.25" speaker. The tweeters and crossovers are fine, so I plan on using those, but just adding a 6.5" speaker for the mid bass.

My question is this, can I use a 6.5" sub woofer for my mid bass?

What kind of 6.5" speakers would you buy if you were going to replace some 5.25" speakers?

It looks like there's a fairly decent selection of 6.5" sub woofers out there and many will work in free air configurations. Is there any reason why I shouldn't put some of these in my doors?

KRock459

Well, most comp. speakers have a x-over point at or around 3500 hz (3.5khz), the mid is designed to play fairly high in the frequency bandwidth. A sub is primarily designed to play low frequencies, 500 hz would be higher freq. for a 6.5" sub, but you can use a 6.5" sub as a lower mid-bass driver, and the 5" and tweeter for a 3 way set. This usually requires a 3 way passive x-over or bi-amping seperate channels for the 6.5" and 5"/tweeter.

Kicker makes a good 6.5" sub, comes in 2 or 4 ohms, and they rip. I'd give the 5 1/4 a try, Diamond makes a good speaker, if your not happy you can continue on the never ending quest for perfect sound

Kirk R

schmiddr2

It might sound dull or low. I asked the same question a few months ago. I was advised to use the components up front and us something like that in the back dash or hatch. I searched on my own and found that kicker makes a shallow 6.5 mid-bass and a 6.5 subwoofer that will probably not fit.
They play completely different frequencies. There are other manufacturers but that's one example. I also found that some companies make 3-way components. I like the idea but the solution is not so easy. GL

fcm

Use the 5.25" component set in front, install the 6.5" mid-bass drivers in the rear, use a 4ch amp, channels 1&2 for the front, [on high-pass], wire the 6.5" mid-bass drivers in series, and connect them the the bridged channels 3&4 for a mono rear fill, [on low-pass if amp has a 500Hz or higher low-pass x-over point, full-range if low-pass x-over point is lower then 500Hz] it will help the imaging and staging.94