My first "Active" "SQ'ish" build attempt.

Well, I played the lowest resolution audio I have exclusively all day long while delivering at work. Couple things... these ARC Audio tweeters are pretty damn good! The Silverflutes don't mind playing to 4Khz at all.

Ok, the weird fuzziness... well, it was not there at all today. I am both sad and happy. Sad because I really was pulling for the little DD's. Happy because the **** sounded clear as a bell with music down to 128kbps.

Well, until I secure some quality mids I am going to go back to full active 2-way. I was able to play my music louder this way too. I can't wait to see the difference sound deadening makes.
 
Your tweeters are in your sail panels right? Do you prefer them up high like that? Have you tried relocating them closer to your mids?
No, they are mounted... ehh custom mounted into the factory door locations. The pic shows the actual tweeter in my door panel. I kid you not, the music sounds head high.

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Tried my Hires USB thumb drive out today on the 2-way active-ish setup. As I suspected... it sounded even better than the crappy 128kbps mp3's. The Hires drive is 92/24bit and 192/24bit FLAC files. I am getting so tired of taking the door panels off. I am going to re-measure yet again tomorrow before work. This time to the tweeters and I will leave they stereo alone until the sound deadener gets here.

I am buying based on cost... Sorry SkizeR. I am going to use Noico 80mil and Noico Red 150mil. I will do a layer of 80mil butyl and foil then directly on top do the Noico Red 150mil closed cell polyethylene foam. If I didn't like food and electricity, I would buy the ResoNix but it just isn't in the budget.
 
Ok, I ordered the sound deadener. 18 square feet of both products. I have a two door car and I am just doing the doors and with any left over... if there is any, I will put some pieces on the inside of the door panels. I went large on my measuring and got roughly 2 feet high and 3 feet long on my doors. So 6 square feet on each door and I ordered 18 square feet of both products. If I plan this smartly I can butyl the door skin and add some closed cell stuff on top of it and I should be able to cover any openings in the door as well. At least they will be deadened now.

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Sorry SkizeR. I am going to use Noico 80mil and Noico Red 150mil. I will do a layer of 80mil butyl and foil then directly on top do the Noico Red 150mil closed cell polyethylene foam. If I didn't like food and electricity, I would buy the ResoNix but it just isn't in the budget.
Its okay, and i get that the product is not for everyone, but theres one thing you're misunderstanding.. for the same amount spent, you can get equal performance with less product installed with a better CLD.
 
Ok, I did some work... damn yellow flies had me rushing.

Inside door on outer skin. Butyl + CCF + CCF over door brace bar.
Inside door on door surface. Butyl + CCF. I forgot to take the final pic of two full pieces of CCF on the door. The second is covering the Butyl nearest the speakers left side. It is applied vertically. Both doors done.

Not perfect but it is something and I covered the large holes twice over (butyl + ccf)

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Just did some equalizing and crossover adjustments. I listened to some music with the subwoofer off. I am impressed... the sound deadening actually did "something." I listened to some Radiohead, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Slayer (Spill The Blood - South of Heaven Album), Ozzy, and some other music WITHOUT the sub. I wanted to hear if the doors were doing what they used to do (that hollow echo thing) and they are not, at least not that I can hear anymore. I wanted to hear the bass guitars, snap of the kick drums, lower floor toms, a gong, the lowest octave of a grand piano from C to C, some synthesizer, and some other stuff to see if the Silverflutes sounded any different. They did, I had to EQ some mids downward from 300-600hz and boosted some lower stuff from 65-110hz. I also brought the tweeters down a hair to blend them better with the mids.

Man, when I slowly brought the sub back in to blend with the mids and highs whooo wheeeee I wanted to smack a chick on the ass... but I am single... and there are no chicks here at the moment. #loser.

I have a **** ton left over of both sound deadeners so I am going to do the trunks deck lid on the underside.
 
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