After about a month of dilly dallying around, I finally finished my DLS component speaker installation. The new speakers had a mounting depth of 63mm so I had to mount them on 12 mm MDF rings. They just clear the door card speaker grilles. I mounted the low pass cable filter in a shallow depression in the door and the high pass ones on a piece of 6mm MDF that I epoxied to the small package tray under the steering wheel. I thought there might be a clearance issue with the later but so far no problems. I also did about a quarter of the door with Second Skin Damplifier and applied a length of draft extrusion around the MDF for a tight seal.
The set-up sounds pretty good to me even though I'm only using a (much verbally abused) Sony head unit (CDXGT200) and still have the rear package- tray speakers, which I like. At first I thought I'd screwed something up as I couldn't hear anything coming from the tweeters. But when I pulled the pillar trim off and held the tweeter to my ear I could hear higher tones from guitar riffs, etc. The high pass filter has a tweeter level select feature which is a couple of wires that you either connect for high level or leave unconnected for low level. I am assuming, since I am a novice at this, that if I disconnect the wires the frequency range will widen a bit. Is that correct?
Anyway, thanks to previous posts on ICE and some very appreciated advice offered me some weeks ago, I was able to (finally) complete the job without any major problems. Really pleased about that.
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The set-up sounds pretty good to me even though I'm only using a (much verbally abused) Sony head unit (CDXGT200) and still have the rear package- tray speakers, which I like. At first I thought I'd screwed something up as I couldn't hear anything coming from the tweeters. But when I pulled the pillar trim off and held the tweeter to my ear I could hear higher tones from guitar riffs, etc. The high pass filter has a tweeter level select feature which is a couple of wires that you either connect for high level or leave unconnected for low level. I am assuming, since I am a novice at this, that if I disconnect the wires the frequency range will widen a bit. Is that correct?
Anyway, thanks to previous posts on ICE and some very appreciated advice offered me some weeks ago, I was able to (finally) complete the job without any major problems. Really pleased about that.
S