I've tried searching for this on this forum and on google, but all I find is tweeaters mounted in the front...from what I've read, high frequencies are more directional and should point to the audience, and low frequencies are less directional.

The reason I ask is that it'd be much simplier to mount my tweeters in the rear...I was even thinking of making a separate enclosure on the sub box for them - I'm thinking that ppl will just say it's a waste of time and $, but wanted to check before I scrapped the idea. (btw: I'm not willing to drill holes in my doors)

thanks,
Peter

 

Scrap that idea, put them down near your kick panels.

Don't be afraid of drilling the hole, a new panel is cheap. This will sound better than your doors too.

 

The tweeters and midranges are very directional. If you don't mind hearing the music come from behind you ... you could mount the tweeters back there. American cars years ago had 6x9 full range speakers in the back and only dual cones (wizzers ) in the front. The effect was a bad as it sounded with midrange up front and the highs and the lows from behind.

Many here will not even install speakers in the rear factory locations. I put a set of speakers there and have them adjusted almost all the way down. I also argue that you're not going to hear anything approaching what the cheapest possible home stereo is going to do inside a car with its motor running.

So for me there's a happy medium somewhere between the factory Blose system and trying to stuff my home theater into 100 cubic feet worth of listening space.

 

Will aftermarket tweeters not fit in the stock tweeter location?

 

I have a non-bose stereo...


thanks Paul and 05-Z for answering this Q

-Peter

 

Uhh, so do I. There's still tweeters located behind the covers opposite the door mirrors, right?

 

I have 2 sets of tweets and mids. one set behind the seats, the oter in the doors. Before anyone says it, no they do not cancel each other out. Here are some pics.

 

Too late - wave theory is more than a few centruries old!

Interference n. – the superposition of two waves that come into contact with each other.



If you like the sound, you like the sound.

Unless you're decoding a Dolby 5.1 encoded signal most will argue that the second set of tweeters, not co-located with the first, will cause a distortion of any image (if that's even possible in a car in the first place!). In a perfect world you'd have your midranges and tweeters mounted about ear level with no objects closer to the speakers than your ears. That doesn't happen in a car so I'll go with my bottom line audio advice - go with what YOU like, not someone else (me included!).

ETA: Nice looking installation.