Sound-speaker guru needed!

[tarkus]

Originally Posted by David C

I'm not an audio engineer, so I won't try to argue on your speciality. I agree with you that you can only get better sound by using better speakers, that's a fact.

As you pointed, if your end goal isn't to reach a nice and deep sound experience inside your car (boomy and clear, without going crazy expensive or comp level), then swapping two of the 4 doors speakers with mid bass ones and wiring them in parallel with the front speakers to help drive them to a better output level (if desired/needed) and using the front door speakers as mid range, and tweeter up front, then properly tweaking the signal sent to each speaker by using the head unit settings and physical crossovers could get you a nice sound for cheap. However you may not be able to recreate that level of sound clarity when you start driving on the free way due to road noise and poorly sound proofing of the Yaris. Even with my setup you can start loosing some of the end of both high and low range with you drive past 100km/h. That's why sound proofing would help a lot too.

Did you upgraded the door speaker wiring when you changed the speakers ?

Your recommended approach is certainly the better one overall, it's just a matter of how much you want to spend.

FYI in my 2nd gen Yaris I don't have any other front speakers apart from the two in the doors. So this is a somewhat different situation from the OP's car. I get lots of bass, and generally have to keep the bass control fairly low on the head unit. IMO having tweeters on the dashboard would improve top end presence that bit more. Having them project toward my knees, the way they are right now, isn't really ideal.

I haven't upgraded the stock Toyota speaker wires, as IMO that's quite unnecessary in this application. However, for my 100W RMS/channel home system, I use some huge fat speaker wires. :-)




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