I'm thinking about mounting/fiberglassing my tweeters in the A-Pillars of my Sunfire while leaving the drivers in the door and just replacing the fabric in that area to cover where the tweeter pods used to be.
I was wondering if anyone has done this and how it turned out and how it sounded.
If anyone has done this could you please provide pics, as well as any insights into doing this. Where would be the best place to mount the tweeters on the pillar?
My headunit (Alpine 9855) does have proper 3-way speaker (tweeter, midrange, sub) time adjustment so I'm not concerned about that.
Suggestions? Pics?
Well, I have mine mounted right under the A-Pillar. After looking around it seemed like the best place to put them. I think they sound great, but many audiophiles said that it was a bad location, since the sound waves were bouncing of the windshield.
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I hole-sawed holes in my A-pillars and mounted some Infinity tweeters in my non-j-body. Imaging never sounded right, regardless of anything I tried.
I finally ended up mounting the tweeter right next to the mid/woofer in the door. ALOT better.
I wouls look into putting the tweeters on the door on the inside of where the mirror is, I've seen this as stock in some cars. I think the sound would be decent from there as the waves would have room to propogate
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Grimor wrote:I wouls look into putting the tweeters on the door on the inside of where the mirror is, I've seen this as stock in some cars. I think the sound would be decent from there as the waves would have room to propogate
I've done that in 2 of my vehicles, and imaging was pretty good (not kickpanel good, but the soundstage was high enough and fairly wide). The only drawback was that, since the tweeters were closer to the front passengers, they overwhelmed my midranges, no matter how I set them up on my HU. If you are able to fix that possible problem, then it should work well.
I just thought of something that could theoretically work for our j-bodies. My brother's '03 Grand Am has factory tweeter pods in that exact same spot (inside of where the mirrors attach). From the look of them, a 3/4 to 1" tweeter should work with them. If they could be made to fit a SF/Cav (they seem to be similar in shape and size to the plates we have in our cars), that would help avoid cutting holes in the A-pillars and it would look stock. The power mirror wand might have to be moved, but it's an idea.
If anyone has tried this, please speak up.
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I put mine right above the stock speaker location... sounds awesome!
My Sunfire has Tweeter pods in the door stock, but everything my professional audio engineering training has taught me tells me this is a bad place for them as they're easily blocked and tweeters are very directional. That and I don't like the general appearance of the stock pods themselves.
I've seen and been in vehicles (trucks mostly) that have tweeters in the A-pillar stock and it sounded alright, though at the time I pay too much attention to the sound staging. It just seems a much more logical position to be in the A-Pillar as the sound won't be blocked by people's legs, seats, the center console, dash, etc.
My idea is to build pods onto the A-Pillars in exactly the same way people put gauge pods on there. (albeit one per side only about midway up, and smaller) I will be putting one Focal Access Series 1" Tweeter on each side. I intend to carpet over the area where the stock tweeter pod was hiding the driver inside the door and replacing the stock carpet in that area to be one big piece.
My intention is to make this look very stock and clean while maintaining a good sound stage as well as frequency range.
Perhaps I should try to locate pictures of gauge pillars to get an idea for how I'm going to be doing this as it seems I may be the first to actually put the tweeters in the A-pillar.
I put my tweets close enough to the front of the door so that they woudn't be blocked by anybody's legs. My dad's avalanche has the tweeters on the A-piller, and it just doesn't souund right to me, but to each his own.
or you could just get the q-logic kick panels they sell on crutchfield and sounddomain. I love mine
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up by the windshield in that part of the dash that always cracks, facing almost striaght up....
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never been a fan of mounting the tweeter so high and the mid so low. allot of time you get issues with seperation, meaning the frequencies that are between the tweet and the mid seem to stretch out distorting your imaging, not to mention the pathlength issue of now that your left tweeter is so much closer to your head then the passenger side. our ears are allot bettter and distinguising left and right images versus up and down images this is do to the placement of our ears on either side of our head
so i tend to mount the tweeter lower getting my left and right imaging across the soundstage as accurate as possible and then working on the image height.
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