HELP! Car speaker confusion:

[jhynesrockmtn]

Originally Posted by speeder

I wound up Velcro-ing them to the dash. Sounds about as good as it’s going to, I think. Pretty decent on the kind of music I listen to, not so much for newer stuff w lots of bass. They are decent/mediocre speakers but they were cheeeeeap.

Sorry we missed you this weekend.

I am not hiring you to do stereo installs on any of my cars!

[rusnak]

tweeters should go up near ear level. The need to have a crossover. And +1 you need an amp, and a deck that allows some fine tuning.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn

Sorry we missed you this weekend.

I am not hiring you to do stereo installs on any of my cars!

Sorry I missed you as well!

Definitely not hiring myself out for any stereo installs, this one took me a ridiculous long time. I hid the stereo in the glove box so that the original, non-working Becker still sits in the factory place looking pretty. Now the car has tunes, including an auxiliary cord for iPod or phone hook-up. The tweeters may not be the most elegant solution but I was adamant about not drilling any holes or screwing anything onto the dash or doors, etc.

The head unit:

[speeder]

Originally Posted by rusnak

tweeters should go up near ear level. The need to have a crossover. And +1 you need an amp, and a deck that allows some fine tuning.

That would not be possible in this application. It sounds very decent, not quite as good as the factory stereo in my newer cars but very acceptable. And the x-over is in the wire, as pointed out a few posts back.