Re: Fiberglass speaker construction

justin time wrote:
"Tony F" <tbone407*nospam*@charter.net> wrote in
news:svYJf.4348$4v7.3322@xxxxxxxx:


Justin,

I'm not going to knock your selection of brands, because I thought you
defended your decisions rather well and I agree that you're the only
one that you need to make happy.

HOWEVER. I don't care what brand you like, you DON'T need 10 6x9s to
get crystal-clear sound. You can buy them if you want, it's your
life, but don't kid yourself by thinking you need a bunch of speakers
to do the same job a few well-installed ones will. Soundstorm or
Soundstream, Boss or Boston Acoustics...you don't "need" 10 of them to
overcome road noise and "hear the band". And that holds true for
subs, too.

I realize you've already purchased some of your equipment, but unless
you're just looking for the challenge of a complicated install...think
"less is more" or "more is not always better". It's so, so true.

Tony



Thanks for the complement and the criticism. I think I may have left out one vital element that factors into all this, though. My car was once tore down and a lot of it was fiberglassed to make it lighter for racing. At the moment, there is no dash, no carpet, no back seat, door panels or window seals. Because of this there is a lot of road and wind noise and even the higher-end speakers will get drowned out quite a bit. Although I'm in the process of fixing all that, I would like the stereo to overpower these noises as it is now. That way it can only be that much better whenever I reinstall new interior and dampening materials.

Nevertheless, Tony's statement stands: you DON'T need THAT MANY speakers to do the job. A pair of good 6.5" three-ways in the front and another in the rear with sufficient power is enough to bleed your ears. And while you may "like" your 6x9s, any oval speaker design - 6x9, 4x6, 4x10 - is inherantly defective, non-linear, and inaccurate. They are simply a stupid and pointless design that was not invented by a speaker manufacturer, but by an auto manufacturer who wanted to put bigger speakers in a narrower deck, and should have died out 30 years ago.


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