5th Gen Budget Drivers
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5th Gen Budget Drivers
Moved the 2-way active setup from my old car to my '96 LX. Old setup:
HU: Dual XR4110 - AM/FM/Mechless Receiver
Active Crossover: Coustic XM6
Amp: Kenwood KAC-649S, 30 W × 2 + 80 W × 1
Amp: Pyramid PB-110PX, 50 W x 2
Mid's: Dayton Audio RS180-4 7"
Tweets: SEAS Prestige 27TFFNC/G
Sub: Klipschorn Promedia 6" home theater gutted; only the speaker and box
Tried mounting the RS180 in the Accord door with a 1" spacer. It cleared the window but was just too big. It wouldn't quite clear the door panel and I didn't want to cut it.
Read some good things about Aura NS6 6" woofers, specifically that they can be crossed pretty high:
Plus they're $9 each. Smaller diameter than the Daytons but still fairly deep. Also, paper cone and foam surround so they have to be pretty well protected.
Woofer Installation:
factory coaxial
factory basket
basket cut with hole to accommodate magnet - 1/2" spacer - NS6 woofer
Assembled woofers
Tweeter installation:
The brackets were from my old car. They don't bolt to the door panel, just a friction fit.
Dumpster-dived an 8" home theater sub, Polk RM600TD. The amp was blown so I took the the transformer, etc. off of the plate and wired a male AC cord directly to the speaker. Wired a female AC cord to the bridged Kenwood output. The sub sits on the seat but can be unplugged if I need the room.
Have to figure out a way to strap it down so it doesn't go flying if the car gets rear ended. The center seat belt won't go around it.
Cross:
Had to turn the output of the tweeters and subwoofer down to better match the Aura woofers. I think it's because the Auras are 8 ohm drivers. Anyway, after playing with the cross points and output levels I got it sounding pretty good. Get a little alternator/ignition noise sometimes out of the tweets. Probably the cheap Pyramid amp. It really is the single part of the system I should have spent more money on. The 8" Polk goes quite a bit lower than the previous, dumpster-dived 6" Klipschorn home theater sub.
HU: Dual XR4110 - AM/FM/Mechless Receiver
Active Crossover: Coustic XM6
Amp: Kenwood KAC-649S, 30 W × 2 + 80 W × 1
Amp: Pyramid PB-110PX, 50 W x 2
Mid's: Dayton Audio RS180-4 7"
Tweets: SEAS Prestige 27TFFNC/G
Sub: Klipschorn Promedia 6" home theater gutted; only the speaker and box
Tried mounting the RS180 in the Accord door with a 1" spacer. It cleared the window but was just too big. It wouldn't quite clear the door panel and I didn't want to cut it.
Read some good things about Aura NS6 6" woofers, specifically that they can be crossed pretty high:
"http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?partnumber=299-030"
Plus they're $9 each. Smaller diameter than the Daytons but still fairly deep. Also, paper cone and foam surround so they have to be pretty well protected.
Woofer Installation:
factory coaxial
factory basket
basket cut with hole to accommodate magnet - 1/2" spacer - NS6 woofer
Assembled woofers
Tweeter installation:
The brackets were from my old car. They don't bolt to the door panel, just a friction fit.
Dumpster-dived an 8" home theater sub, Polk RM600TD. The amp was blown so I took the the transformer, etc. off of the plate and wired a male AC cord directly to the speaker. Wired a female AC cord to the bridged Kenwood output. The sub sits on the seat but can be unplugged if I need the room.
Have to figure out a way to strap it down so it doesn't go flying if the car gets rear ended. The center seat belt won't go around it.
Cross:
- Sub low-passed at 120Hz
- Woofers bandpassed at 120Hz - 3KHz
- Tweeters high-passed at 2.6KHz
Had to turn the output of the tweeters and subwoofer down to better match the Aura woofers. I think it's because the Auras are 8 ohm drivers. Anyway, after playing with the cross points and output levels I got it sounding pretty good. Get a little alternator/ignition noise sometimes out of the tweets. Probably the cheap Pyramid amp. It really is the single part of the system I should have spent more money on. The 8" Polk goes quite a bit lower than the previous, dumpster-dived 6" Klipschorn home theater sub.
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Get a little alternator/ignition noise sometimes out of the tweets. Probably the cheap Pyramid amp. It really is the single part of the system I should have spent more money on.
Last edited by Roader; 01-02-2013 at 02:58 PM. Reason: Typo
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