Yaris Sedan Deadening and Sound system upgrade

[derickveliz2]

SQcomp, tell us a little bit about your new Tweeter install? aiming is very particular and clever...

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[sqcomp]

Originally Posted by derickveliz2

SQcomp, tell us a little bit about your new Tweeter install? aiming is very particular and clever...

D.

Preface:

Next time I do this, I'll make these completely out of plastic. This bonding different materials aggravates me to no end because of the different properties between the different substrates. Blah blah blah...anyway...

The semi horn loading of these pillars seems to add some width and some definite height that I have only experienced with the pillar mounted setup like my last setup. Being much more on axis, I have a hell of an ability to play these tweeters lower as well as hear more definition from said tweeters versus my last pillar setup. Playing the tweeters lower at this particular location keeps the height way up versus being dragged down by the location of the mids in the kicks.

...that and I HAD to do something different that Derick after all...



It's all really an experiment. Think about the auditory response you get when you cup your hands near your ears. You can hear things differently. I'm simply playing around with the response of the tweeters by doing this.

I'm also burning time until I take on my next vehicle project...a 1989 Toyota MR2 with a "lightly modded" 3SGTE from a friend and engine builder in kiwiland...

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by sqcomp

The semi horn loading of these pillars seems to add some width and some definite height that I have only experienced with the pillar mounted setup like my last setup. Being much more on axis, I have a hell of an ability to play these tweeters lower as well as hear more definition from said tweeters versus my last pillar setup. Playing the tweeters lower at this particular location keeps the height way up versus being dragged down by the location of the mids in the kicks.

...that and I HAD to do something different that Derick after all...

Yes your tweeters can play very low like a champ.

I can tell you know what you are doing, and it's very clever aiming (your tweeter install) still don't see the Dash Mat? don't you get a bunch of reflections from the windshield? I guess you are using these in your favor to obtain a better width any way!


I did try at some point playing my tweeters low but didn't work for me, since my Mids are more set apart from each other than the tweeters

(remember I cut into the a-frame to fit the magnet) and have them almost flush and providing a location "as far forward and as far from each other" making the Mids play more like a point source [from 160Hz to 10kHz] my stage width benefits from that, and keeps a good height! about my nose or say a couple of inches above the speedometer cluster, that to me feels very natural.

I've been thinking about modifying the left tweeter aiming and position [similar to what I did with the Mids where from my point of view both drivers look the same], by cutting deep into the a-pillar so the tweeter sit as far left as possible, maybe combined with the spheres I had before treating diffractions with the soft curbs. Or some thing like that.

I would like you to do a few tests, (I all ready did) and tell me what you get:

1-Playing the track left, center, right mute the tweeters and tell me if your center image shifts slightly to one side,

2-Playing the track left, center, right mute the tweeters and lows, does your center image moves right or left a few inches?

3-Mute the tweeters and play Mids (L4se) all the way up "tweeter less"!




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