Who knows about mid bass?
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Melting Slicks
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Who knows about mid bass?
I sold my vette and bought a 350z. I know, I know, BOO!... HISS!.
Here is my question though... The z has your standard crappy Bose HU and 6.5" speakers all around. Behind each seat is a 6.5" rear fill speaker facing towards the windshield. My thought was to do a set of components in the doors, and add dedicated 6.5" mid bass drivers to the rear fill locations. Will this throw off my imaging? Is it worth doing? On most of the newer Alpine HUs, you can run them in "3 way mode", so I wont have to worry about extra crossovers. The front channel is configurable for a full range set of components, the rear channel is configurable for mid bass range 90-250 Hz or so, and of course the dedicated sub channel.
Kale, EatRice, ShawnZR1 any thoughts?
Here is my question though... The z has your standard crappy Bose HU and 6.5" speakers all around. Behind each seat is a 6.5" rear fill speaker facing towards the windshield. My thought was to do a set of components in the doors, and add dedicated 6.5" mid bass drivers to the rear fill locations. Will this throw off my imaging? Is it worth doing? On most of the newer Alpine HUs, you can run them in "3 way mode", so I wont have to worry about extra crossovers. The front channel is configurable for a full range set of components, the rear channel is configurable for mid bass range 90-250 Hz or so, and of course the dedicated sub channel.
Kale, EatRice, ShawnZR1 any thoughts?
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You would definately throw your imaging to hell. Midbass is very directional...I can tell that my midrange/tweeters are in the dash and my midbasses are in the doors pretty easily if I listen closely(and mine are barely 2 feet apart!). With them behind your head I think you would end up with a pretty messed up soundstage. 
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Waco is correct. What will happen is songs with alot of midbass or male vocals will cause the stage to pull backwards. Espically something like Garth Brooks...one second the song is in front of you the next he is behind you.
Several years ago there some top dog cars running around from a shop in Cali called Speaker Works..Kale proably knows who they are. They had the best of the best cars including Richard Clarks Buick Grand National. They used Waveguide drivers up front and midbass drivers in the rear. The only down fault was the image pulling towards the back. Today we have many more strong midbass speakers available that are smaller. Excellent 6.5 drivers and shallow midbass drivers. If you are looking for serious SQ and imaging do a kick panel with midrange and tweet and put a midbass in the door. You will like that alot.
Several years ago there some top dog cars running around from a shop in Cali called Speaker Works..Kale proably knows who they are. They had the best of the best cars including Richard Clarks Buick Grand National. They used Waveguide drivers up front and midbass drivers in the rear. The only down fault was the image pulling towards the back. Today we have many more strong midbass speakers available that are smaller. Excellent 6.5 drivers and shallow midbass drivers. If you are looking for serious SQ and imaging do a kick panel with midrange and tweet and put a midbass in the door. You will like that alot.
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Melting Slicks
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Thanks for the replies guys, that is what I thought the answer would be. I'm a fan of midbass, so I'll proably end up doing some sort of 3 way set up in the doors. Maybe a 3 way 6.5,4,1 component set like the JLXR653CSi. Or a regular 2 way 5.25 component set and a pair of 6.5 mid bass drivers in the stock door locations.
Looks like I'll have to pull off the door panels and see whats doing back there.
Looks like I'll have to pull off the door panels and see whats doing back there.
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You won't be sorry adding seperate midbasses. I went from having just a set of 4x6 Boston Acoustic plate speakers blending with my 12" subs, to having 3 4.5" JBL/Vifa midbasses in each door and the difference was amazing! 
