6.5 Speaker advice... in a Volkswagen

[willh035]

So I own a 2009 Jetta. It's a great car and I love it. I'm about to upgrade my sub to an IA Flatlyne 12 and am also looking to upgrade my speakers from my current Polk Audio DB6501 but I'm worried about the acoustic level of my car and if it's even worth the money. VW for some off reason decided to put their woofers right by everyone's a**. If you're sitting in the car, the speaker is basically right beside your cheek. Horrible design and there's a noticeable difference is sound quality when the car is full versus when it's just me. I'll also be sound deadening and all that noise as well so no worries there but I'm still worried if the speaker location would make it pointless to upgrade to higher quality speakers. Also, if anyone has a similar vehicle or speaker locations, I'd like to hear your personal experience. Thank!

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[willh035]

Didn't proof read, my bad lol

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[kr15 5,000+ posts]

No clue what the interior of that car is like. But glassing some kick pods is an option. As would be glassing A-pillars.

I could see how that location would be difficult to get proper imaging

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Take a pic of the inner door panel. From what I googled, looks like your right...but hard to tell from Google which door panels are the same year as your car.

Guess the audio engineer wasn't so smart or wasn't too concerned about speaker placement into a newer vehicle. Prob said something like oh screw it, lets be different and put the speaker here. Absolute worse place to have a speaker location. Sound comes from up front, where the person is sitting, not on your side.