Hi, I own a stock 94 Integra RS. I bought it with a hole the size of a baseball in the driver-side door panel. There is a set of door panels on EBAY with leather that I want to get but the thing is, I'm sketchy about getting it because the door panels on my car now don't have holes to put tweeters in, and the one on ebay does. I was planning, originally, to get a set of components and have the tweeters placed on the part of the door where the side mirrors are (INSIDE of the car though of course).. the front corner of the window i guess you'd call it? Anyway, would this be a better location to mount tweeters than using the factory door panel tweeter hole? I assumed it would be because I guess I could get a better angle with it? Or is placing the tweeter in the Factory Door panel location good enough for HIGH-END competition clarity?? any input and feedback will be greatly appreciated, especially from the experienced and pro.

 

If you're looking for good imaging, get kick panels made and mount your mid and tweeter in the kicks.

 

BUMP ME!! I NEED MORE OPINIONS! I feel skeptic about placing the tweeter alongside the mid-range woofer down by my feet.. Any serious <U>audiophiles</U>do this? More info please!!

 

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the idea isn't to necessarily place them by your feet but its to place them by the midrange so you dont have a phase shift through the frequency range. kickpanels are made to minimize the path length difference between left and right making it sound more centered and plus with kick panels you can make the quality of the enclosure a lot better than by just mounting them to the door.

so....if you're looking for good imaging, get kick panels made and mount your mid and tweeter in the kicks

 

Exactly.

 

alot of competition cars, and demo cars do this, and place their speakers in the kick panels.

however, it all depends on what ur own ears like. these days with the extra options of *atonation* variability in crossover u get, u can set different sounds coming from the tweeter. also with newer and better headunits with time correction, u can set ur speakers to exactly how u like them sounding.

basically u have more control over them.

my tweeters are mounted where the sttock door panel tweeter mount is. i like it from there, and have them really flat sounding, just for the ambience. but some tweeters are a lot brighter and louder than others, at which id probbaly put them in the kick panel, otherwise id have a very bright tweeeter in myface.

basically, its all what ur own ears like.

gl

 

A general rule of thumb is to point the tweeter at the apposing seating position. Ie: driver side pointed toward passenger head and passenger side pointed at driver's head. Although they may be low in the doors, most car audio tweeters and mids are designed for good off-axis performance because it's rare that you can mount the pairs right in front of you.

 

thanks. i can't wait to get my infinity perfect 6.1 components.

 

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i would say point them between the 2 seats. if you point them towards the oposing seat then when sitting there you're going to have different response characteristics. although most car audio speakers are designed with better off axis response than normal, its an inherent characteristic that the off axis will have a signicantly steeper rolloff than on axis. now this can also be useful if you have speakers taht you find to be really bright. if you point them a little more off axis it tends to tame them a little and make them more pleasing.