Escape to Bass - Build

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I just finished making my pods for my Dayton tweeters. I cut down a piece of 1.25 inch 45 degree PVC for plumbing. The Dayton tweeter fits almost perfectly in it. Spent 4$…..I’m a cheap bastard.

Do you have the little Ti Dayton's?

 

[SlugButter]

Yeah. I have the ti and the sf.. I’m switching to the soft dome ones.to pair with the CDT midbass and using the titaniums in a home audio speaker build.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Yeah. I have the ti and the sf.. I’m switching to the soft dome ones.to pair with the CDT midbass and using the titaniums in a home audio speaker build.

Are the Ti's harsh? Mine are still new in the box.

 

[SlugButter]

Are the Ti's harsh? Mine are still new in the box.

A little. Very detailed and accurate though. I’ve always thought that titanium’s are for home use, since you’re typically much further away, and soft/silk domes work better in the car where they’re 3 feet away. I had these and some 4 inch midbass speakers lying around waiting for a home stereo project I’m doing, so I threw them in the car to check them out.

 

[SlugButter]

Point your tweeters at windshield if you’re dash mounting. I angled mine towards the window and they actually sound quite nice.

 

[SlugButter]

Even with the soft domes I have them angled a little towards the glass. With the titanium dome tweeters I would angle them a little more even.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Point your tweeters at windshield if you’re dash mounting. I angled mine towards the window and they actually sound quite nice.

Mine are going to be in pods mounted vertically above the Kappa 300m's. There gonna be beaming right at my face lol. I will probably use the DD's tweets, they sound great and are silk.

 

[SlugButter]

Mine are going to be in pods mounted vertically above the Kappa 300m's. There gonna be beaming right at my face lol. I will probably use the DD's tweets, they sound great and are silk.

I’m eventually moving mine to the top of the door panel, but I’m likely going to do 3 way active at the same time instead of 2 way. I think it sounds best with a silk tweeter firing from the door right in front of my face towards the passenger and vise versa.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I have been looking for midbass/midrange speakers and looking at the interior (doors) of the Escape and considering options for the mids and highs.

How does this sound? I have found some awesome looking and spec'd 6.5" speakers by Wavcor and discovered my A-Pillar side mirror bolt covers on the doors have gobs of room to mount just about any normal car audio tweeter flush. I was thinking 75-80w into the Wavecor speakers then splitting off of them into my DD soft domes or the Dayton Ti domes pictured with the caps pictured inline to the tweeters. Would I need more than just the 15uF 100v caps to protect the tweeters?

 

[1aespinoza 10+ year member]

SUV's make me happy.

This is why I want a wagon.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I can't stand it. I hooked up my subs to an amplifier and I am running my door speakers off the head unit power. Head unit power is not clean by a long shot. Subs sound great but those new 6x8's are being tortured. Guess I will go ahead and run some more RCA cables and speaker wires and throw the other amp in.

Ya man.. HU power generally No Bueno.. I amplify all my speakers. In -Dash Pre-amp EQ helps and works very nicely to tune any song on the fly after amp settings

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

This is why I want a wagon.

I want to get a 99 Surburb and gut it out and Start from scratch on sealing and deadening that Joker

 

[metalheadjoe 10+ year member]

Ya man.. HU power generally No Bueno.. I amplify all my speakers. In -Dash Pre-amp EQ helps and works very nicely to tune any song on the fly after amp settings

I think Alpine powerpaks are the way to go. Either that or RoFo's inline speaker amplifiers; those are a game-changer!

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I think Alpine powerpaks are the way to go. Either that or RoFo's inline speaker amplifiers; those are a game-changer!

Links?

 

[metalheadjoe 10+ year member]

Links?

Alpine has two different models depending on if you have an alpine deck or not.

Alpine KTP-445U Power Pack

Compact 4-channel car amplifier — 45 watts RMS X 4

www.crutchfield.com

No experience with these but the technology is fascinating .

Rockford Fosgate PM100X1

Two compact full-range mono amplifiers — 60 watts RMS x 1 (each)

www.crutchfield.com