Recent content by zacster

They'd have looked OK being seen, I just didn't want them out where they'd get kicked. Besides, the supplied wire was only long enough to go so far. I'd have had to run 6 pairs of wires to put them anywhere other than under the dash somewhere. One place they may have fit is in the woofer...

One other thing to add. When I tested it out I used Qobuz and played hi-res music through a Dragonfly DAC connected to my phone. When my daughter tried it she used Spotify over the same DAC. You could definitely hear the difference between the two sources. Spotify muddies the music. You...

I just finished up the other side and the one thing that took all the time was figuring out where to put the crossover again. You'd think behind the glove box there'd be room but there are all kinds of electrical connections back there plus the cabin fan and filter. I found a spot where it...

Some of the kits I was looking at only filtered the tweeters with an in-line crossover, in fact most of the less expensive ones do. The inline filters are easy to tuck away. I think I saw somewhere that the woofers have built in filters on these sets. The OEM drivers didn't filter the woofer...

I did the install on one side only today, and the one side sounds pretty good. Why only one side? It started when I took the tweeter out of the dash and realized that the crossover in the plastic case the size of a deck of cards is too big to fit anywhere in the tweeter compartment. I even...

I already bought the Focal component set for the front. I didn't give the rear any thought but maybe could replace them with the coax version of the Focals. One thing at a time. I think an amp might be the next thing, but only if it is necessary. The car has 200k miles on it and my daughter...

I gave the current speakers in the Camry a better listen after driving around all day in my Tesla and they sound completely dull and lifeless even with 24/96 music playing. I ordered Focal Performance 165AS even though the Infinity are on sale at Crutchfield. I decided I'd rather buy a middle...

I put the new aux jack in earlier this week and it makes a huge difference to play true hi-res music (via a Raspberry Pi on my home network) vs. the radio. It's funny, there is a CD player too and my daughter couldn't find anything less useful! CD is dead to the under 30 crowd, and all but...

I don't see an A pillar space, only the dash corners for tweeters. If you need to take the dash off to access it I'm not going to bother. The other thing is that I have a pair of Focal tweeters, the TWU 1.5 that comes with the ISU 200 that I put in my Tesla. The Tesla M3 SR+ does not have...

I see the Infinity Kappa series such as the 63XF and the Reference series of various models that are somewhat cheaper. Some are coaxial, some have separate tweeters. I'm not sure if this car has the A pillar tweeters, I'd have to look. If it doesn't I'm not about to try and add them although...

My daughter, after having her 2009 Camry totaled through no fault of her own, had a 2010 Camry fall into her lap. Both cars came from her grandmothers, from each side. Her cousins from both sides had turns driving these cars. She gets them after everyone else has beat them up! Anyway, the...