Does SQ change with the season?

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

comfort maybe. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

one thing for sure is that my setup sounds better at night. in a darker environment, your mind will depend on your other senses than the eyes.

for this winter/summer scenario, i can't tell a difference. My car has a heater. I'm not sure wtf you other guys are driving.

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

A bulldozer.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

stand-up at a cricket convention.

 

[stuckinok 5,000+ posts]

comfort maybe. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif
one thing for sure is that my setup sounds better at night. in a darker environment, your mind will depend on your other senses than the eyes.

for this winter/summer scenario, i can't tell a difference. My car has a heater. I'm not sure wtf you other guys are driving.

You live in California...... There is no winter.....

 

[headless 10+ year member]

Just a guess, but i think that the suspension materials, cone materials and all the surfaces in your car that vibrate will change in their properties more based on temperature swings than whether it is night or day. Light doesn't change how something sounds nor does it change the physical properties of your drivers unless it's bright sunshine that warms them up. The simple answer is that it's usually colder at night so things sound different then than during the day. On the other hand, during a cold day (like today, 30f) there is very noticeablely less bass produced in my car compared to 90-95f. Just like it's different to listen to it during the day @95f compared to at night @ 65f the same day. On the other hand, i've seen it go from 30f in the day to a nice warm 60f that night, and right on cue the same changes occur in reverse. I think some of it also has to do with the amps warming up, but i've never seen any information on temperature of solid state amps really making much of a difference; i think that was more confined to old tube amps really. I think most of the difference in my car is the plastic and upholstery - going from frozen temperatures to 95f makes a really big difference in how flexible they are, and thus how much the resonate. When my car is very hot, the front door panels resonate very noticably in the midbass range...but when they are really cold, they don't...thus a perceived loss of midbass.

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

when it gets really cold out (below 32) my mids start to get a muddy and sloppy until i have had them on for a few minutes then they are fine. That set of components would be my powerbass 3xl comps so im not sure if it has anything to due with them being cheap or not. once my id comps are in i'll let you know if it made a difference

 

[headless 10+ year member]

when it gets really cold out (below 32) my mids start to get a muddy and sloppy until i have had them on for a few minutes then they are fine. That set of components would be my powerbass 3xl comps so im not sure if it has anything to due with them being cheap or not. once my id comps are in i'll let you know if it made a difference

It'll be similar. My stock speakers, my germaniums and my power line cs all did similar things, though i wouldn't describe them as muddy...just different. That's going from shitty 5$ speaker to 450$ speaker to 1000$ speaker sets and all similar things.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

You live in California...... There is no winter.....

wtf am I doing w/ this snowboard?? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

It'll be similar. My stock speakers, my germaniums and my power line cs all did similar things, though i wouldn't describe them as muddy...just different. That's going from shitty 5$ speaker to 450$ speaker to 1000$ speaker sets and all similar things.

my mids being muddy and sloppy are probably the fact that they are just poorly made drivers.

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

Just a guess, but i think that the suspension materials, cone materials and all the surfaces in your car that vibrate will change in their properties more based on temperature swings than whether it is night or day. Light doesn't change how something sounds nor does it change the physical properties of your drivers unless it's bright sunshine that warms them up. The simple answer is that it's usually colder at night so things sound different then than during the day. On the other hand, during a cold day (like today, 30f) there is very noticeablely less bass produced in my car compared to 90-95f. Just like it's different to listen to it during the day @95f compared to at night @ 65f the same day. On the other hand, i've seen it go from 30f in the day to a nice warm 60f that night, and right on cue the same changes occur in reverse. I think some of it also has to do with the amps warming up, but i've never seen any information on temperature of solid state amps really making much of a difference; i think that was more confined to old tube amps really. I think most of the difference in my car is the plastic and upholstery - going from frozen temperatures to 95f makes a really big difference in how flexible they are, and thus how much the resonate. When my car is very hot, the front door panels resonate very noticably in the midbass range...but when they are really cold, they don't...thus a perceived loss of midbass.

Really? I get the opposite. When it's warmer my car doesn't have as many squeks and vibrations. Just one more reason I hate winter! I think the panels hrink a little due to the cold and then there's a bigger gap between them to allow them to vibrate off each other more noticeably. I never thought about the amps having to warm up. Anyone know more about the optimum temp of an amp, etc?