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<blockquote data-quote="Gary S" data-source="post: 3177197" data-attributes="member: 568291">Putting the tweeters in the door pods next to the mids would be the better way to go... the person who told you time alignment won&#039;t help pillar mounted tweeters is correct... what he failed to mention is that time alignment won&#039;t do anything to compensate for poor speaker placement. If you take measurements, one tweeter in the pillar will be closer to you as a percentage of the same channels&#039; mid, while the other is farther away; if you try to time align one side, you screw it up for the other listener. If you wanted to time align both tweeters, you could get the same affect from an attenuator/volume control on the tweeters or mids... but the ratio of the speakers to themselves and the listeners will still be off. Time alignment can help with apparent volume (same effect as an attenuator), but will not change speaker/listener ratio to each other. All time alignment will do is effectively move the speaker forward or backward, but it can&#039;t make the speaker change apparent location. There is no replacement for good speaker placement, no mater how you slice it.Another possibility, in some cars, is to mount the tweeter in the kick pannels... sometimes it&#039;s easier to get them positioned above people&#039;s ankles in that way, instead of behind their knees, low in a door... it&#039;s a better place anyway.Installation quality, system design, speaker quality, and speaker placement are the most important things in quality car sound.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gary S, post: 3177197, member: 568291"] Putting the tweeters in the door pods next to the mids would be the better way to go... the person who told you time alignment won't help pillar mounted tweeters is correct... what he failed to mention is that time alignment won't do anything to compensate for poor speaker placement. If you take measurements, one tweeter in the pillar will be closer to you as a percentage of the same channels' mid, while the other is farther away; if you try to time align one side, you screw it up for the other listener. If you wanted to time align both tweeters, you could get the same affect from an attenuator/volume control on the tweeters or mids... but the ratio of the speakers to themselves and the listeners will still be off. Time alignment can help with apparent volume (same effect as an attenuator), but will not change speaker/listener ratio to each other. All time alignment will do is effectively move the speaker forward or backward, but it can't make the speaker change apparent location. There is no replacement for good speaker placement, no mater how you slice it. Another possibility, in some cars, is to mount the tweeter in the kick pannels... sometimes it's easier to get them positioned above people's ankles in that way, instead of behind their knees, low in a door... it's a better place anyway. Installation quality, system design, speaker quality, and speaker placement are the most important things in quality car sound. [/QUOTE]

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