First of all...BIG THANKS to MANNY for the learning experience/help and sacrificing time from his family on a saturday. ALSO big thanks to Don for always hooking up the .org with great prices on sweet equipment.

Work in progress.....
This is the first layer of dynamat that you see....we will be cascading the door panel and doing another layer on the door itself.
We also dynamatted on the backside of the door skin.

That's a Iridium 8" midbass. =)



Midrange and tweets are in the kicks as of now....will get a picture of that soon.
Our helper for the day:


going to run them passive for now to see how I like it and for simplicity's sake. ...if not...it's time to get one more amp to run 3way active.............

More pics to come as I finish up the wiring and figure out where to put 4 crossovers!!!!!

 

Dont sweat it man. Welcome to 8" midbass club!

 

good work, you learn well grasshopper.

 

looks good. I'm excited to see the results. Seems like the lil one will develop a taste in high end audio.

 

In for pics of kicks cuz I need inspiration myself.

Good work so far though.

 

Nice.

I want 8's! Anyone know how the Iridium 8 2-way components sound? I've only listened to the 3-way set.

 

you guys make me wanna step my game up, i could use a upgrade in my front stage.

 

Throwing in the eight's wasn't that bad in our car. you should get some eights.

 

i quite possibly will look into that, it seems that thats the new route alot of people are taking with the 8in in the door... doesnt really look like alot of modding needs to be done. did you need to enlarge the hole in the door, or did you just make a mdf ring?

 

enlarge and make a ring.

 

Sweet, lookin forward to more pics!! Good work Jeff and Manny and the midget helper......

 

BTW, you're missing a screw on the mid!!!!

 

oh ok, i thought as much, if i dont go that route, i might just wanna upgrade to some of those rainbows you sell. ive heard some good things about them.

 

looks good so far...


in for more.

 

Looks good..pretty much everything else has already been said

 

Very nice!

Man just when I think I am happy with my setup........

 

5th gen is very 8" friendly....

 

continued.....after a couple of weeks.

8's in the driverside door

back of the 8's

sexy dls magnets

tweets and midrange in the kicks

 

how does it sound?

 

Believe it or not...staging is GREAT with the speakers down there. I have to break it in a LOT MORE so we'll see. Hopefully Manny & Parag will chime in on their thoughts. It really seems like the imaging wouldn't be good there but it really sounds great. Thanks again to Manny for helping out A LOT with this install and DON for supplying the goods.

 

Yup the response is pretty flat from about 50/60 hz all the way up. I am surprised at how well the image arrives to almost eye level. It's a really great sounding set not quite as warm as I expected, I am assuming they will warm up a little once their broken in.

 

hows the midbass? rearview mirror rattling?

 

I'll be honest, the midbass is less than I expected, however I do believe it will change once they are broken in... my SLC's felt like they were lacking initially but I know better now .

 

hehe need to spray the door panel too.....resonance ftl!

Plus parag is just a bass head...he wanted me to port the 8" midbass's!!!!

 

Lol lets not get carried away... but I'm thinkin your 8's are going to gain in output quite a bit once broken in.

 

lol lets hear that ported box of yours...should be interesting

 

Yup yup can't wait to throw the sp12 in thurr. I think the sound quality is going to increase and should be able to play a more variable frequency being that its tuned to the sub.

 

Looks are deceiving....experiment!

 

I figured it would sound better than I thought because too many people go with applications with tweets mounted in the kicks, and seeing that I had to assume a properly setup comp set in the kicks would sound just as good if not better than with tweets in the a's.

 

Dude, you've got some gray colored little basketballs in your kicks.

 

now thats ballin'...