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Originally Posted by Christien
Here's my thoughts on the issue:
1972 never came with door speakers, so there's not really any way of wiring them, at least not a clean way. Though if anyone has any suggestions I'm open, because I'm installing new carpet and RS door panels this winter. Right now I have 2 mid-grade speakers on the rear parcel shelf and 2 mid-grade speakers in the dash (where there was originally a single speaker). Sound quality is poor, to say the least. I'd like to improve sound quality without a) spending $1000 and b) installing all sorts of crap in the back.
My hope is that this under-dash unit will help with two decent size speakers up front, plus get a small sub to put under the passenger seat, something like this: Kenwood - KSC-SW10 |
pop a hole into the door's leading edge, using the later cars as a guide
mount the high quality speakers to the metal frame with a bit of resilient material between;
put some dampening on the door skin depending on your trade-off between sound quality and wt.;
put one of those special pads behind each speaker;
put some special material over the door fame (interior side) - it will substitute for a plastic barrier;
use some cylindrical tubing for any penetrations in the special barrier material & for actuating rods etc. & stuff a little foam in there;
cut a hole in the inner door panel for the speaker and mount the speaker frame to it
for better sound use separates, and put the tweeter high in the door with its own hole or even better, put the tweeters in special little enclosures you make at the very corner of the dash/windshield
use decent wire & a quality amp
cannot stand to put holes in the door's leading edge???
- then run the wires just behind the door panel
want a heavier, more lugubrious car? add a woofer (car audio people usually call it a sub-woofer, but it isn't really)
for better sound than the above either use high quality headphones or buy a Lexus