Do you just happen to live in STL?....

 

Yes I do. Yourself?

 

I don't know why I didn't think of screens. With a screen I do see a reason for a double din. For some reason I was just thinking a regular CD player that was a double din and I didn't see why you would want one of those over a single din one.


As for the post above yours some of his info is true and some of it just seems to be his personal preference. I like Kicker and Infinity and the higher end Alpines better than most RF's as do most of my friends whom are into car audio. It's really just a personal preference though as they may sound better to me and 10x worse to you. It just depends on who is listening to them.


I admit I did mount my tweeters there because it was easy. I don't want holes all in my truck all over the place and it would have more than likely looked weird in the pillar since they are a bit bigger than the holes and the piece of the pillar that comes out for the tweeter. So they would have looked bad there and it really would have looked bad had I put them somewhere else and had 2 sets of tweeters. I'm just not crazy about drilling holes in my truck. I do it as little as possible and while my setup may not sound the best out there it sounds pretty darn decent.

 

I did...now im in Fulton.

 

Audio is definatly one of those that are a personal preference. Espcially with brands. And like a previous posted stated, every ear is different.

What I have found best is anywhere I plan on cutting up to first make a run to a local pick n pull/junk yard. Get spares of the platic pieces I am going to cut up and then use those for my templates or test fitments. that way if I dont like the way things look or fit I haven't really harmed anything other then a few bucks out of my wallet. Plus it gives me a chance to stock up on fuses and light bulbs....can you ever have enough of these things? lol

In some cars (espcially sports cars) it's actually better to put things like the tweeters on the door panels due to low seating. General rule of thumb is that you want the highs (tweeters) as close to the level of your ears as possible, then mids at your waist or below and subs below you or behind you.

I will say this one cautionary item about subs...never have them pointed at glass. Espcially hatch backs. Eventually you will tear the seals/adhesive apart and then complain about leaks. not a problem with our trucks, but thought I would throw that out there too.

 

what does "bridged" mean when describing an amp?

 

Another thing...don't you get more bass response out of 6X9s compared to 6 1/2s?

I remember that I had 6x9s in the rear deck of my Stratus and those alone hit pretty well...

I had Pioneer 6x9 3 ways in the back, with Pioneer 6 1/2 4 ways up front...and it sounded good...that was years ago.

 

Most 6x9's you do however, if you add subs it doesn't matter really anyway.

 

It means just how it sounds that you can bridge the two channels together. So if it's a 2 channel amp and you bridge it you can basically make it only have 1 channel but have more power for 1 channel than it would if you ran it as having two channels. You would do this if you were running a sub or something like that.

 

6X9's will put out more flat bass because it is a larger speaker, that is true, but also over time they wear out faster because the oval shaping of them makes them start to lose balance, thats why you never find any of the highest end companies doing 6X9s because with the warranties that they offer they would be giving out a new free set of speakers every day. Hometheatermans description of bridging is a pretty good one, in laymans terms bridging focuses the amp into a single output instead of both outputs hence giving more power to that single output. example, if you have a 2X500 watt amp and you bridge it you will end up have a 1X750 watt amp(rarely do they put out all the power of both outputs into that single output, as a rule you take on of the outputs and multiply it by 1.5 and you get the single output that you will get.