So I worked on the install during the first part of my vacation and got my wires run, Alpine 9833, PG x100.4, x400.1, and PG tld66 linedriver installed. Right now I'm giving each front door and each dash speaker their own channel of attentuation and time alignment. Got everything focused but still need to flip the polarity on the dash speakers to try to give them a more fluid sound and better acoustical phase. Right now they're crossed pretty steep with the mids at 1600hz to get them blend. Flipping the polarity will let me go from a 24db slope to a 12db slope while hopefully keeping proper acoustical phase. One thing I will say is these Mexican papercones are suffering from power compression BAD with my overbuilt amps. I fully expected this to happen though considering the stock speakers weren't made for producing any type of dynamics. With the levelized crap you hear these days they sound fine.
Now for the speakers that will be going in next month. I'm going to probably use my Focal polyglass mids I had in my 06 Sierra in this truck. Here's the mids I have...got a gently used set last year from a buddy on DIYMA for $110 shipped and sold the tweets and passives. http://www.crutchfield.com/p_091165V...y=Focal&tp=106
Since I let my Morel mdt29's go with my sierra to fill the holes they were in I'm going to try a Tang Band ceramic tweeter that's been getting good reviews. The Morels had a nasty breakup node that couldn't be tamed so no regrets on letting them go with the truck. They still treated me well for nearly 2 years. Back on track, reflections from the windshield are going to cause a HUGE mess that a dashmat will only slightly tame so may as well go "bang for the buck" here. Here's the tang. http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...number=264-865
For the sub I'm doing a 10" Sundown sub downfired over the tranny hump between the front console and back seat. Part of the box will need to drop down into the rear passenger floorboard to get the .9 cu ft required for a .707 alignment. This sub might be an airpig but it beats the low output, low efficiency, and usually high inductance small box woofers a lot of companies are coming out with today. Let's not forget how JL specs their subs for smaller boxes than what they really need. Run the numbers on them sometime and see for yourself why manufacturers box recomendations shouldn't be trusted. Here's the sub. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e6...n/IMG_1161.jpg
If you havn't figured it out already I refuse to pay a huge markup for car audio branded gear when I can get it from individuals I've met in person for a lot less or go with a raw home driver from a company that oem's for home audio companies. CDT has a 2" widebander that's a slightly tweaked Tang Band papercone mid/tweet. You can get the Tang version for less than $30 shipped for the pair. The cdt version is several times more for basically the same driver. If you've made it this far in my longwinded post I'll gladly give anyone an honest answer on what's "best" for any given budget. I'm also not afraid to say something is crap at a given price point. I'll update what I'm running at time goes on. Everything is subject to change in the coming weeks. This truck does need to be ready to show off by the end of July at a DIYMA meet.
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my truck has 4 6 1/2 roadmaster speakers, low cost but good quality lol and for the boom boom crack i have 2 12" alpine type e's being pushed by a 600 watt 4 channel power acoustick amp, both subs are briged at the amp....that little beast can make me lose my breath lol
Did some driver changes and am now running the H-Audio x2 and Soul in stock locations. I lined the area around the stock grills with polyfil to catch that first reflection. If you don't do that the first reflection will give you a fit when it comes to dailing things in thanks to diffraction. http://www.haudioincus.com/X-Series.php
They have a nice sterile sound that doesn't leave anything to the imagination. The detail will make you hear stuff in music you've never heard before. They aren't the most forgiving drivers in the world but that's what my Premier 880prs is forDrivers that are detailed usually aren't forgiving anyway.
For the sub I'm running a DD 510 I won on a raffle www.ddaudio.com and have it in 1.5 tuned to 30. Measures nearly flat on the rta. It's downfired under the back seat that I did a 4" lift on. It really is a nice sub for sound quality and isn't boomy at all. I recently traded my DIYMA for a Dayton ho10 since the DIYMA was bought for a center console box in my Sierra right before I decided to trade in for the Ram. It measures really well and sounds really good in .7 tuned to 30. Funny how it does so well in a TINY ported box where the hf version that looks exactly like it needs a HUGE box. http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...number=295-462
Drivers that are detailed usually aren't forgiving anyway.
