Where are your speakers?
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Parrothead
Joined: May 2002
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From: Margaritaville Embassy
St. Jude Donor '08-'09,'13, '14
Where are your speakers?
I'm curious where you all have speakers in the car. I'm building a box that will have 6x9's, and I cannot decide if I want to replace/use the speakers in the dash or put 6" rounds in the kickpanels. Also, do you have subs? if so, where? the box I'm building is only going to be about 11" high, with a tray for the T tops above.
Safety Car
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From: North Royalton, OH
St. Jude Donor '06-'07
Re: Where are your speakers? (Markm10431)
I replaced the dash speakers and couldn't be more happy. They sound better than the stock ones and will last longer than the stock ones could ever hope to. I also put 6-1/2" rounds in the door where Bubba placed his Jensen Co-Axials 20 years ago, but if the holes hadn't been there, I would have used the kick panels for more up-front sound. I also built a cabinet for 6x9's in the rear, but I am very disappointed with the sound - since I wanted the cabinet to be narrow enough that I could still put the tops back in there, the bass response is very poor. No room for a sub-woofer in my plans, but I would love to hear how anyone else might have done it in an unobtrusive way, if it is possible...
Safety Car
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From: Waterford Mi
Re: Where are your speakers? (BSiegPaint)
4X6's in kick panels and 4X10's in rear. I used some 3/4" cabinet board to make a shelf to sit on top of the rear wheel wells to set the speaker boxes on. Still have room under it to put the T-tops (or other stuff) when running around.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2001
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From: GA
Re: Where are your speakers? (Markm10431)
I put 4X6's in the dash (Clarion Pro Audio) and some Jensen 6X9's in rear with a Bazooka tube that's removable if I need the space. Want to change the Jensen's to Pioneer's though as they DO sound better.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
Re: Where are your speakers? (Markm10431)
4x6's in the dash and kick panels, a custom box with 6.5 rounds and a 8" sub at the rear. It was tough with the convertible, but managed to squeeze everything in.
Le Mans Master
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From: Was New Orleans but swam to Baton Rouge LA
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Re: Where are your speakers? (Markm10431)
I have two polk audio EX346 in my dash and an additional two added to the kick panels. The radio sounds good even with the tops off and windows down. Now if I only had a more powerful radio.
Mark B.
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Re: Where are your speakers? (Markm10431)
Very sweet setup, Armstrong, but it doesn't look like you can get the tops in.
I was sick & tired of the wire mess & all the caps & batteries
Here's where I mounted my front speakers. I knocked the voicecoils out of the stock speakers, removed the cones and put tweeters in the stock speaker frame.
Removed the entire stero crap, couldn't hear it anyways ;)
Marck
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Burning Brakes
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From: GA
Re: Where are your speakers? (Twinnie)
WHOO WHEEEE!!!! Talk about wakin up the neighborhood!!!. Damn Twinnie Thats SWEET!!! You did a GREAT job. I can barely stand to sit in mine if I turn it up good but YOU can ROCK ON with the best of em.
