cam94z28
10-05-2013, 10:08 PM
I'm kind of disappointed since upgrading the stock crap speakers in my 96 Z28. I had the 5 speaker bose system. I was already down a door speaker when I bought the car (fried amplifier), which was my reasoning for upgrading.
I ran quality speaker wire through the door grommets, and direct wired a pair of Pioneer TS-D1602R's to a new Pioneer DEH-X7500HD. These are only 6.5", so I had to mount them using the 4 "ears" which extend outside the main basket. This left 7 open holes in the front of the speaker frame, some of which would have been used to mount to 6.5" openings. I plugged these with blu-tak, and mounted the speakers in the doors. I also tried to isolate/seal the speakers from the door panels using modeling clay, both on the bottom of the speaker/amplifier mounting plate, and along edges once mounted in the door. Neither of my door panels had the clear plastic water shield.
I am fairly certain I wired them in-phase, but I am just not getting much, if any bass. I'm not talking subwoofer bass. I know that cant be expected from 6.5's. But, there's not even anything around the 80-100hz (punchy) range, even with "bass booster" enabled on the head unit. Crossovers are disabled. There actually seems to be a hole in the sound, and I'm not even getting decent midrange out of them. Is this because the water shield's are missing, leaving that huge square opening at the rear of the doors? I even tried purposely wiring them backwards, and there wasn't much difference. If anything there was even LESS bass.
I ordered a decent pair of cheap fosgate 6 3/4" coaxials on the off chance that there was a gap that I couldn't see, between the edge of the speaker and the mounting plate. I haven't received them yet.
The only other variable I can think of would be the fact that the head unit is just too weak for the speakers. But I can see woofers fluttering back and forth through the door panel grilles. They appear to be moving quite a bit under head unit power, but aren't producing the sound they should.
What are the recommended steps for getting clean, punchy sound out of the doors?
I ran quality speaker wire through the door grommets, and direct wired a pair of Pioneer TS-D1602R's to a new Pioneer DEH-X7500HD. These are only 6.5", so I had to mount them using the 4 "ears" which extend outside the main basket. This left 7 open holes in the front of the speaker frame, some of which would have been used to mount to 6.5" openings. I plugged these with blu-tak, and mounted the speakers in the doors. I also tried to isolate/seal the speakers from the door panels using modeling clay, both on the bottom of the speaker/amplifier mounting plate, and along edges once mounted in the door. Neither of my door panels had the clear plastic water shield.
I am fairly certain I wired them in-phase, but I am just not getting much, if any bass. I'm not talking subwoofer bass. I know that cant be expected from 6.5's. But, there's not even anything around the 80-100hz (punchy) range, even with "bass booster" enabled on the head unit. Crossovers are disabled. There actually seems to be a hole in the sound, and I'm not even getting decent midrange out of them. Is this because the water shield's are missing, leaving that huge square opening at the rear of the doors? I even tried purposely wiring them backwards, and there wasn't much difference. If anything there was even LESS bass.
I ordered a decent pair of cheap fosgate 6 3/4" coaxials on the off chance that there was a gap that I couldn't see, between the edge of the speaker and the mounting plate. I haven't received them yet.
The only other variable I can think of would be the fact that the head unit is just too weak for the speakers. But I can see woofers fluttering back and forth through the door panel grilles. They appear to be moving quite a bit under head unit power, but aren't producing the sound they should.
What are the recommended steps for getting clean, punchy sound out of the doors?