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<blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8610848" data-attributes="member: 650438"><p><a href="https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294964799&amp;Ne=10166&amp;Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&amp;PortalID=1" target="_blank">https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294964799&amp;Ne=10166&amp;Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&amp;PortalID=1</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294965077&amp;Ne=10166&amp;Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&amp;PortalID=1" target="_blank">https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294965077&amp;Ne=10166&amp;Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&amp;PortalID=1</a></p><p></p><p>thats just to answer your orignal question.... buuut.</p><p></p><p>Most important part is your head unit. Without a good head unit, you arent gonna sound neutral or good. amplifier power brings out clarity, its not for loudness its actually mainly for clarity. The most important part is your head unit needs at least a 24 bit dac, 13 band or higher EQ, time alignment, and 4 volt pre-out with 3 pairs of rca outputs. Without any of these tuning features, you are doomed to have a pretty sh*t setup.</p><p></p><p>I'd honestly get rid of the 3.5 inch headrest idea because thats complete sh*t for jazz. You generally want 6.5s in the doors, and tweeters in either the upper door panel or sail panel or A pillar. Why is this? Because you have ZERO sound stage at the headrest. A properly done setup will have it sound like you have a live performance on your dash and you literally distinguish each and every instrument in the recording right where they are playing at on your dash. You can tell if the singer is walking left or right. This concept is called soundstage and headrest and rear speakers will absolutely destroy and resemblance of a soundstage by pulling the stage back or eliminating it completely and just give you blaring noise that one cant even label as music anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeffdachef, post: 8610848, member: 650438"] [URL="https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294964799&Ne=10166&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&PortalID=1"]https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294964799&Ne=10166&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&PortalID=1[/URL] [URL="https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294965077&Ne=10166&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&PortalID=1"]https://www.parts-express.com/cat/woofers/15?N=19809+4294967118+4294965077&Ne=10166&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bendeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_PortalID%22%2C%221%22%29+and+endeca%3Amatches%28.%2C%22P_Searchable%22%2C%221%22%29%5D&PortalID=1[/URL] thats just to answer your orignal question.... buuut. Most important part is your head unit. Without a good head unit, you arent gonna sound neutral or good. amplifier power brings out clarity, its not for loudness its actually mainly for clarity. The most important part is your head unit needs at least a 24 bit dac, 13 band or higher EQ, time alignment, and 4 volt pre-out with 3 pairs of rca outputs. Without any of these tuning features, you are doomed to have a pretty sh*t setup. I'd honestly get rid of the 3.5 inch headrest idea because thats complete sh*t for jazz. You generally want 6.5s in the doors, and tweeters in either the upper door panel or sail panel or A pillar. Why is this? Because you have ZERO sound stage at the headrest. A properly done setup will have it sound like you have a live performance on your dash and you literally distinguish each and every instrument in the recording right where they are playing at on your dash. You can tell if the singer is walking left or right. This concept is called soundstage and headrest and rear speakers will absolutely destroy and resemblance of a soundstage by pulling the stage back or eliminating it completely and just give you blaring noise that one cant even label as music anymore. [/QUOTE]
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