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Old 01-24-2015, 12:17 AM   #2935
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I'm sorry if I'm been so naive here, what would be the best orientation for tweeters from the images below...

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Short answer is "B"
Aim your tweeters away from glass and flat panels, to avoid second reflections and fool your brain with unreal signals.
Without a processor left tweeter may be more off axis to lower the level since right tweeter would be more on-axis towards your right ear. In other words you need to balance the tweeters so it feels like you are in the middle.

If after playing music for a while your Left ear hurts that means the Left tweeter is playing louder, a mechanical way to fix this is having the Left tweeter off-axis to minimize the level, you can play with the HU's Balance and with high frequency sounds (like a female voice) you can actually have a better center image, give it a try.

How I did mine, I went a step further and been able to control each tweeter with a processor, Left tweeter was aiming to my Left ear (my tweeters had a very bad off-axis response) so reflection on the window are minimal. And Right tweeter aimin at my Right ear.

In the CLS and in my CLA with OEM sound system I do this see below.... move the balance towards the left side a bit to get a little bit of center image, you can play with it move it left and right and yes the high frequencies would move left to right, try to center it in the middle of your dash...


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Old 01-24-2015, 12:27 AM   #2936
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Hertz HL-70s shown on A- Pillars and now lets play with aiming and location. Still don't know if I'm going to integrate in one peace into the A-pillars or maybe I'll build a separate semi sphere and attach it mechanically.
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When I started this idea, I had NO IDEA! that my Stage was going to get "Narrower"

If you put your speakers closer together, you will reduce the width of your stage.


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Old 01-24-2015, 12:39 AM   #2937
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Progress pictures "Mids & Tweeters"







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Ok, with this set up, the stage was very narrow, tweeter on sail panels helped the stage width but wasn't natural, you could get a really good center image very sharp but depth wasn't good either, why...? speakers are too close to your ears.

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Old 01-24-2015, 12:56 AM   #2938
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And the pictures... (sorry I didn't have my SLR so point and shoot for now)









You can see in the pictures above I'm trying to gain some width pushing the Mids out from each other.

Moving the tweeter to the a-pillar didn't help, I gain so much reflections from the windshield and it started to be very hard for tuning.

Stage width suffer a lot, I did gain some depth by moving the speakers away from me but didn't work any way.

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Old 01-24-2015, 01:09 AM   #2939
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This crazy idea of the subwoofer was really GOOD!

it was AWESOME!!!, but with a penalty in power (SPL).

I got really good Bass up front very natural but.... I was lacking of "cone area" so the very low end wasn't strong enough to blow your ears, not a bad thing for SQ at moderate volume... but I had to push the limits of the little subwoofer all the time.


Like the race between a Prius and a BMW M3 where the Toyota was going as fast as possible and the M3 was just following behind.

At the end the M3 did better MPG than the Prius. Here is the LINK just FF to minute 4 and watch.

http://youtu.be/JmxUsGiGp3w

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Old 01-24-2015, 01:16 AM   #2940
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At some point I had the image below... what I was doing wrong... it's called "LEVELS" the left speaker was kind of off-axis to my left ear and right speaker was more on-axis to my left ear so at some point will sound louder in my right ear, and "V" shape stage of the 7 drums that should be like a straight arrangement got distorted by not having a balance between speakers.

A very common factor in car Audio at early stages.

Lowering the levels on the right speaker... "problem solved" I just didn't know!



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Old 01-24-2015, 01:19 AM   #2941
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Ok, I'm at page 40 and post around 1587

I'll continue other day, I have to get the garage ready, a snow storm is about to hit MA in the morning.

If you have any questions or would like to talk about something just let me know, I'll try to help.

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Old 01-27-2015, 09:01 PM   #2942
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This little sub is one of the best experiences that I will remember for ever!

Great solution if you have a small trunk or don't have one.

Don't subestimate the size of it's 6.5" woofer. It's just awesome!

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Old 01-27-2015, 09:30 PM   #2943
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Mids in the kick area: (naked)




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Putting my Mids in the Kick area it was the best option for an awesome stage in the Yaris! THE BEST!

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Old 01-27-2015, 10:13 PM   #2944
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Re-cap...

FRONT STAGE HISTORY...

1st image: very narrow stage, image no good

then...

2nd image: better image but still narrow stage

and now...

3rd image: sweet!


1: very narrow stage, image no good


2: better image but still narrow stage


3: sweet! the BEST so far for me.


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Going Active, with a DSP and a 3 way this is very true! Mids in the kick area provide a wonderful Front Stage.

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Old 02-21-2015, 01:14 PM   #2945
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Derick how you been doing Man. Long time no see !! The build log is lookin awesome !!! Keep up the good work.
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Old 02-25-2015, 12:27 AM   #2946
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Derick how you been doing Man. Long time no see !! The build log is lookin awesome !!! Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
moving along step by step,

Massachusetts it's very cold right now,
I'm glad I'm away in the tropics for some sunshine right now.

I'm very exited about the mini horns, I hope everything goes as planed.










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Old 03-16-2015, 11:23 AM   #2947
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Hi YarisWorld, I'm back to reality with all this white stuff!

While I was there I saw some amazing Yaris on the road, I couldn't take pictures since it was not a good idea to bring my new iPhone to the streets, not safe. But here are some pictures I got online.

They have a Yaris sedan that looks like a Camry!



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Old 03-16-2015, 11:26 AM   #2948
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Here is the HB...



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Old 03-16-2015, 11:32 AM   #2949
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Here is something we don't have "Auris":






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Old 03-16-2015, 12:01 PM   #2950
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This one was like I want this!
I can't believe you can buy a new truck like this one:





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Old 03-16-2015, 12:02 PM   #2951
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But this one even wasn't a Toyota just took my breath away!!!




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Old 03-16-2015, 01:37 PM   #2952
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I had "ladis" a yarisworld memeber asking me the following: any help I'm sure ladis would appreciate.

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I'm trying to share on thread but the network doesn't allow me


I have a yaris sedan 2006 and it was alright but the cigarette lighter didn't wanna work.
My fuse inside fuse box don't have a lid si there is no way for me to know which fuse is for what, I went on google and I found a picture the time I changed the fuses my dashboard light my back light and my cigarette lighter not working at all
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