Car speakers in the house?

The problem is that most car speakers are designed for small enclosures and rely on the natural boosting of lower frequencies of the car to give it more output.  In a house you will have to use a larger enclosure to gain back the low extention, and may not be able to do that with an ideal alignment.  If you plan on going ported, make sure to tune low.  That will help with the low end response. 

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio

Bad idea.  Buy a real center channel.  Sound quality will be subpar, anything less than 8ohm will overheat a lot of home receivers, and you'll certainly want to shield them.  If you want to build your own home audio center start with quality shielded drivers from somewhere like www.madisound.com

You can get some great sounding speakers and tweeters for fairly cheap at that site.  They also have crossover design services.

Oh, I didn't see the center channel part.  For some reason I was thinking of a subwoofer.  Sorry about that. 

I also don't think you will get a good sound out of the speakers.  This is because those speakers aren't voiced for center channel duties.  Madisound is a great place to get speakers.  I recomend checking them out as well.  We offer some kits that come with all the drivers, crossover parts, and hardware for home speakers.  All you have to do is build the enclosure.  I recomend checking them out as well. 

Steven Kephart

Adire Audio

Yeah .. adireaudio.com sells quality speaker parts and kits too.  :-) 

I'm actually looking to build my first pair of home audio monitors for a spare bedroom, so I've been looking all over the DIY pages myself.  So, Steven, do you use some of the same great technology I've been hearing about on this board in the auto koda driver in your midrange home audio raw driver offerings?