This past weekend, I completely gutted my trunk and brushed on some rubber-based bedliner stuff, I used a whole gallon on just the trunk, probably 1/8" - 1/4" thick everywhere I could get. I also re-routed my rca cables that went to my DSP and mounted my DSP away from my amps. I am happy to say I got rid of ALL my alt. whine and engine noise, and my bass response has much improved, along with ALOT less rattling...
So now I am ready to move on to the front stage. Currently, I have 6.5" Alpine coax's in the front doors in the stock location - bottom-front of the door panels. I also have the stock tweets hooked up, and they are flush mounted, about 2-3" lower than the top of the dash at the front side of the door panels ~2-3" back from the dash. By the way, this is in a 1997(4th gen) Nissan Maxima...
So, I have been thinking about getting/making some kick panels, and I've been reading alot about imaging/timing and all that, and I am thinking about doing 6.5" components in the doors for bass, 4" or 5.25" mids in the kicks, and some flush-mount 1" dome tweets in the stock location, flush mounted.
But I have been wondering; Alot of guys are putting the tweets in the a pillars, and 95-96 Maximas had stock tweets up there, so I am wondering if it would be better to get some a pillar pods from one of those cars and put the tweets there, or is where they are now better? I know this will all be a matter of opinion and I should do what sounds best to me, but I am talking about potentially, which would be a worse spot as far as reflection/imaging is cocerned? I already have a DCX-730 that I will be using for processing, and it has time alignment and all that I can play with, but I want to start off with the best physical placement I can, and only EQ what I have to.
Currently I have nothing for rear-fill, and for subs in the trunk I have 2 - Earthquake DBX-12's in a ported box I designed in WinSD, tuned to 32hz - pushed for now by a 1600w mono amp. The front stage is pushed by a 300rms x 2 ch @2 ohm, 150w rms x2 @ 4ohm 2ch amp. I was running it at 4 ohms and it had no problem powering the fronts, but the Alpines are sheap, they suck, and I want something better.
Sorry about the length of this, I just am really ready to get my system out of the "high-school" stage and move onto something better, and I want to get some opinions and do as much research as I can before I spend money. Any opinions are greatly appreciated. If I need to add more info or anything, please let me know.
Thanks,
-Matt
Try this, its a bit basic but it works. Decide what componets you like. Buy them wire them up. Install your midbass then use double sided tape on the back of the tweeter try them on the a pillars, top of door panels dash where ever find where you like them the most and go from their. What sounds good to me may sound like arse to you. I find experimenting on a car sometimes leads to great results instead of just plunking them in where some 12 year old with a computer tells ya to.