where are you all mounting the tweeter. are you replacing the the factory one or a new location? if you have time any suggestion for an affordable pair.

 

You can mount them on the door sail, A-pillar, or in the door. Try different spots until the imaging sounds good to you. Supposedly, the best location for components are in the kick panels, where both the midrange and tweeter have the best imaging. I had tweeters mounted in my door sails, and then flush mounted them in my doors. I can slightly tell a difference now that they are in the doors. It seems when they were mounted on the door sails, the sound reflected more off the windshield giving a better sound. Again, try different locations until the sound sounds good to you.

 

I've also heard that putting the tweeters in the speaker location is great for imaging too...I was lazy, and simply swapped out my old tweets for the new ones -- I glued the new ones one because they didn't have a screw hole.

hope this helps.

FLO_BOY

 

i put my tweets in the AC vents. It's ghetto but the imaging is perfect. Makes other cars with tweets in the pillars sound like garbage .Since i have a GXE there is no factory tweeter position so it's difficult

 

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In the A/C vents??? Do you have a pic of that? You mean the ones up on the top of the dash near the apillars?

drew

 

I guess you don't have to worry about them overheating.

 

Ya know I've thought about that. Would that screw up the A/C for the defrost when the windows get foggy? Hey I'd love to see some pics cuz I'm rollin in my GXE too!



LETS SEE SOME PICS

 

I mounted mine in the factory location.

 

Using the factory location is easiest. My experience with components is the closer to the woofer the tweeter is, the better it sounds. I used the small black triangular piece behind the side mirrors. Again this is not ideal but helps with imaging.

 

im a big fan of the stock locations.

 

alright ive gotta question that co incides with this. has anyone here(3rd gen especially) had an issue with the tweeter not fitting when mousting it in the door about 4 inches above the stock location? ive been messing with placement prior to cutting a hole in my door and am noticing that it almost doenst look like the tweeter would not fit snugly, and may stick out a couple centimeters. also, ive got the alpine type x component set and the crossovers are thick bastards as well, i was originally planning on mouting these behind the door panel too but i swear theres no way these things are fit.

 

I prefer a lil' closer location than stock, specially with silk tweeters- so mine are at the doors at ear level- my preference as far as imaging

 

i put mine in the sail panel. they were too deep to put them on the door panel next to the handle, and i don't like them in the a pillars (i think they're too far away there). they were also too deep to flush mount in the sail panel, so i surface mounted them. i don't think they look too bad though:

 

^^^ my rainbow tweets are in same location.......just right to my listening taste- I also thought pillars location was too far

 

What about aluminum/titanium tweeters? Where would be the best plave to mount those considering they are off-axis....would you point them away from you and the passengers?

 

^^^In that case, you want to point them towards the windshield or as close as possible(pillars)

 

well the reason i was aking is because i like to leave it looking factory so i don't temp anyone to break in. but if it sounds a lot better somewhere else then i will change the location. like i but to bose speaker grills back on in the rear.

 

Since we're on the topic, what are components?
Is it 2 speakers, 2 tweeters, and 2 crossover stuff?
Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but I would really want to know.

 

yes, pretty much..component speaker sets are 2 woofers and 2 separate tweeters with crossovers for the tweets.

 

Are there anything special about component speakers compared to regular speakers?

 

with the woofer and tweeter divided, its supposed to allow each to perform better, i think..cause each one can be setup with xovers so they only recieve the frequencies they're supposed to respond to..i guess..