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stormraider04

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 6:50 PM / IP Logged

i have a ford f-150. i have one tweeter per door. i was wondering where is the best sound qaulity and good looking spot to put my tweeter. here is a pic i found of an f-150 door. i was thinking of putting it in one of those two spots. so would it be better to put my tweeter in the lower spot by the speaker or the higher spot by the mirror? thanks

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 7:01 PM / IP Logged

In the pillars along side your windshield aiming to the center of the glass. Adjust the crossover as low as it will go for the tweet. there should be a little switch in the crossover depending on the brand that will have (for example) -3db and -6db etc...

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 7:39 PM / IP Logged

Wrong... hate to say it like that, but that's wrong... The tweeter should ALWAYS go as close as you can POSSIBLY get it to the midbass... I won't be the only person to tell you that, either.

It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 7:52 PM / IP Logged

I agree, the tweeter needs to be as close as possible to the midrange. I would suggest, with the room you have under the speaker grill, mounting it there or build a bridge over the midrange like a coaxial.

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killer sonata

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 9:48 PM / IP Logged

All i know is that is what the install sheet that has come with all of my focal speakers has told me. Why would you want it way down on the floow being blocked by your legs?

Building a bridge over a speaker is not the brightest idea. All it will do is block the sound waves from the woofer. coaxials are terrible by design.

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 10:17 PM / IP Logged

Whats that grey tweeter looking thing on the door panal....why not there?

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 10:19 PM / IP Logged

killer sonata wrote:

All i know is that is what the install sheet that has come with all of my focal speakers has told me. Why would you want it way down on the floow being blocked by your legs?

Building a bridge over a speaker is not the brightest idea. All it will do is block the sound waves from the woofer. coaxials are terrible by design.

Did that sheet from Focal tell you to mount them HIGH away from the mids? I really doubt it. And a coax is not a bad design, it's a fix for a certain problem thats all.

stormraider04

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 10:27 PM / IP Logged

well i wasnt planning on building a bridge. pretty much just putting my tweeter where the grey one is in the pic or the black. the grey tweeter area is not coompletly blocked by my leg either. its just above my thigh. but more opinions are helpful. thanks guys

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 10:41 PM / IP Logged

haemphyst wrote:

Wrong... hate to say it like that, but that's wrong... The tweeter should ALWAYS go as close as you can POSSIBLY get it to the midbass... I won't be the only person to tell you that, either.

Ditto

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mobilesndfx

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Posted: July 08, 2006 at 10:48 PM / IP Logged

Killer, Im not going to say your set up is wrong, but its a fact that midbass/midrange and tweeters should be as close together as possible. As common knowledge, the higher the frequency, the more directional. In my opinion aiming the tweeter at the listener would be better than the windshield. I was trying to find an article I read a few years ago, written by a pioneer in car audio called "Location, Location, Location". Cant seem to find it, but by your answers, you could learn a lot from it. Storm, heres the best answer you will get. Take a piece of double stick tape and attach it to the back of your tweeters. Mount it in different locations throughout your truck and listen to it. The one you like, is your answer!

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