are SUV's bad for sound quality?

[JeepLiberty 10+ year member]

This guy from Tweeter said that SUV's, including hard-top types like my Jeep Liberty are "horrible" for sound quality from door speakers, even if you use dynamat.

Now I have Polk Momo speakers (which sound great in the showroom) and dynamat throughout. I drive with my windows up---- and my door speakers still sound VERY crappy.

Is this guy right?

Or do I just have a bad set-up/system?

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[cversion7 10+ year member]

I don't have an SUV so I cannot say for sure, but I've always hear that they were better for bass. Doors are doors if properly deadened. Maybe they are angled incorrectly or is the door panel blocking/covering part of the speakers?

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

guy at tweeter should STFU - honestly all auto's are bad for SQ

 

[Bumpin' Yota 10+ year member]

This guy from Tweeter said that SUV's, including hard-top types like my Jeep Liberty are "horrible" for sound quality from door speakers, even if you use dynamat.
Now I have Polk Momo speakers (which sound great in the showroom) and dynamat throughout. I drive with my windows up---- and my door speakers still sound VERY crappy.

Is this guy right?

Or do I just have a bad set-up/system?

Probably the same retard that said JL w7's would be louder than the L7 12s I had in there. When I said, "Let me borrow 4 of them, if they are louder and actually handle the power Im throwing at them, Ill buy em...." When the dude found out I had 8.8kW rms he declined... The retard had also never heard of Zapco...

tweeter/soundadvice are all a bunch of retards down here...

 

[blaze383]

I have a 95 Grand cherokee with the stock infinity system and all of my door speakers are blown yet they still sound pretty good and i can hear them with my windows up and my bass up pretty loud, i have 2 L7 12s and a 1200.1 so i dont guess you could really say its the Jeep......

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

manual cars are better SQ than automatic cars. fyi...

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

manual cars are better SQ than automatic cars. fyi...

Care to explain?

 

[Raisedin305 5,000+ posts]

manual cars are better SQ than automatic cars. fyi...

mmm whats the difference?

 

[Raisedin305 5,000+ posts]

In my Expedition the SQ is good...who told you this? I think its ********

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

mmm whats the difference?

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[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

manual cars are better SQ than automatic cars. fyi...

Wrong. stop throwing the new guys off with retarded statements.

I drive an SUV. And It's just as complicated to achieve SQ in my car as it is my SUV. To say all SUV's **** for a SQ install is wrong.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Sounds to me like they dont know what they are doing. I am guessing this Tweeter store is like best buy or circuit city? If so they take it to a local car audio shop. They are more professional and should be more knowledgable then them guys at tweeter. Those polk audios should sound pretty good.

 

[Raisedin305 5,000+ posts]

hes phucking with u //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

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[Bumpin' Yota 10+ year member]

Sounds to me like they dont know what they are doing. I am guessing this Tweeter store is like best buy or circuit city? If so they take it to a local car audio shop. They are more professional and should be more knowledgable then them guys at tweeter. Those polk audios should sound pretty good.

hey hey hey easy on the CC bashing! I happen to work as an installer at one! Some of us actually know a thing or two....others dont have a phawking clue and wont listen...

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

a car is an acoustical nightmare, i can't imagine that theres that much difference between an SUV and a car...

and manuals are way better for sq, the bass bounces off the clutch then the fly wheel and hits you right in the face... but the car/suv has to be rwd

 

[Mackenzie 10+ year member]

and manuals are way better for sq, the bass bounces off the clutch then the fly wheel and hits you right in the face... but the car/suv has to be rwd

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[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

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leave

 

[Cris 10+ year member]

maybe they're bad for SQ because the passenger-door speaker is in a different zip-code than the driver. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

leave

Now.

 

[JeepLiberty 10+ year member]

A Jeep Liberty is not that big. In fact, it's considered a small SUV-- right there with RAV4's and CRV's.

I totally agree that this Tweeter guy is full of monkey dong------ but here is my plan---- the exec. from Tweeter says he wants his best installer (//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif ) in Columbia, MD to take a look and see if he can figure out what the problem is.

(And the problem is that these Polk's sound like ABSOLUTE CRAP) So I said FINE, even though I've tried EVERYTHING possible, and had tweeter already look at it where I live.

Then, once the guy can't make them sound good--- WHICH I KNOW HE CANT----- I am 1st going to ask him to hook up a brand NEW alpine amp to them. If they still ****, then I want a refund on everything--- the Polks, the eclipse amp, the wires, the alpine head unit--- and for them to put back in my stock radio.

For over $1,000 spent this is rediculous. Thanks for the input. I will be sure to call him a dumb ass on you allz behalf for his SUV SQ comment.