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Part 1 posted, thread title "Choosing midbass drivers"

Part 1 posted, thread title "Choosing midbass drivers"

Mmhmm, I'm gonna save that sucker on my computer haha.

I meant as far as shopping for drivers. If I'm looking at the information provided online and trying to decide between one driver or twenty others, how can you compare one to the next? I'm anxious to ready your writeup. I need to get going soon though. It's late here and I still need to get to the gym.

Nooooo.....not quite :D

I'm working on a writeup here and there, I'll finish part one after I finish some errands.

FR is important, but it's the FR [i]in the end[/i] that matters, and you can't really predetermine that from a spec sheet. I wasn't saying FR isn't important, just that the specification doesn't do you much good.

hhmm ... So ... power handling and make sure if fits where you want to stick it. I guess that's what we're down to. lol

[quote="Airforceyooper"]I'm almost there. I'm in DC for the time being. I see what you're saying about the sensitivity. And considering the environment we're putting drivers in when sticking them in cars ... what's a good way to measure one driver against another? Most of the freq. response curves are primarily on axis and not accomplished in a car. lol. And even if it had, from one vehicle to another it's going to be totally different. so what's the magic formula? What's the answer? Or is there no answer?[/quote]

I feel frequency response is a near useless parameter to go by for car audio unless you see a big suckout somewhere in the driver's frequency range. By the time you get the speakers in place, you've either:

1: Focused a lot of attention on catering the application to the specific driver in hand. For that reason it will perform well.

2: Popped the speakers in a factory spot. In that scenario, all speakers good or bad are going to have a terrible response regardless.

Off axis dispersion is important, but this can be combatted with a lower crossover frequency.

so what would you suggest? If I don't put them in my doors and I don't have any room in the kick for them, where am I suppose to put them?

[quote="Bwcad1"]*cough* spl switch *cough*[/quote]

Quitter :p

[quote="Airforceyooper"] I have to keep my speakers in the doors.[/quote]

False.