Sound system build progress thread (warning: will be slooooow)

[Victorofhavoc]

Honestly, I think DSP and deadening would be the biggest contributors. If I was going real cheapo I would do just those two things, with the factory speakers. As you say, EQ (and time delay) can get you a very long way.

I don't even have an amp on my sub. Just the factory lines to some high quality wire I had to finish. I did do fill, deadening the box, covering the box in closed cell, and all of my doors, hatch, rear wells, and under rear seats is 30% strategic deadening with 150-200% 4mm closed cell layers.

Stock exhaust even in sport basically doesn't exist. Borla in comfort can be heard but it sounds "refined and underneath you" since my floor isn't deadened. Tightening all the bolts for the speaker surrounds also made a difference to its rattling. I still get an occasional harmonic buzz, but it's super hard to pinpoint and occurs rarely.

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[ashmostro]

Yeah I plan to do this too - maybe not as hardcore as you did but who knows!

Made yet another strategic change to the plan: upping to 1" tweeter from 3/4" so I can push the crossover frequency down below the midrange beam point (will go with 2.5kHz), which will massively aid in image stability. I'll lose some top end (>13kHz) image stability for the same beaming reason, but our ears are WAY more sensitive at 2-4kHz than >10kHz. Good tradeoff.

Will go with the venerable Seas Prestige, and will use a pod for it instead of the stock inside the A pillar location.

https://www.seas.no/index.php?optio...cg&catid=45:seas-prestige-tweeters&Itemid=462