For near perfection, I'd take a look at the Scan-Speak line (for examples look at http://www.madisound.com): D2904 for the tweeter and the revelator series for the 18W/4531G mid. While you're there, you might want to look at the Skaaning SK300-844 woofer. (FYI, These are the basic raw drivers found in home systems in the multiple thousand $ range). Go active for Xovers.Lets put it this way. Im going to put a **** load of work and cash into this car so the stereo is going to be honkin right along with it. Just need it to last a good long time also. I wont be abusing the speakers in any way, but I'm looking for near perfect quality. Looked at Lotus, are there any others in that range up there?
here you go champ.Lets put it this way. Im going to put a **** load of work and cash into this car so the stereo is going to be honkin right along with it. Just need it to last a good long time also. I wont be abusing the speakers in any way, but I'm looking for near perfect quality. Looked at Lotus, are there any others in that range up there?
Yep, and they are usually 8x the price of what you could even say they are worth. Classic case of the wrong way to design speakers, chitty drivers and suspect engineering. Holy marketing though.Would agree with that completely //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
I've never heard a Bose setup that's impressed me, even if price wasn't a factor.
4 banger 73 cougar //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gifBose doesnt make any car audio products other than for OEM mfg's,so whats the point?Not only is Focal way better than Bose,but so is most aftermarket car audio speakers
Bose even when used in OEM applications is not really anything to brag about.
Bose,good quality sound for the unimformed should be there logo
Your pop should listen to the younger generation(you),they have alot more knowledge of what
technology is producing today and leave the old 4 banger beat up Cougar for his generation to fiddle with
HAHA
The amazing thing about all of that is that none of those comparisons are in any way, shape or form valid to use to compare one of the speakers to another as you listened to them in totally different enviornments/installs/tuning. You weren't listening to or comparing traits of the speakers; but traits of everything from your seating position to the acoutics of the vehicle itself to the install/tuning ability of the installer.When I was shopping for my speakers, I looked at Morel, Dynaudio, Focal, Diamond and Boston Acoustic. I had the pleasure to listen to these speakers in a car environment rather than the boards too. The BA's sounded nice, but that was it...just nice. Nothing they had knocked me off my seat. Morel sounds excellent, but the system I listened to was a 6" or 7" Midbass in door, 3" mid and Scan Speak R1 in kicks. Sounded excellent, but I wasn't impressed in the crossover network that the owner had to build for the setup. Mind you my price cap was 1600 dollars. They were right at that price for the raw drivers, the crossovers would have taken me over that price point. The Dynaudio's I listened to were the 360's in a Thunderbird, much like my Mark VIII. I loved the sound of those speakers!!!! Best IMO for the money! But they were right at 1800 and I couldn't justify the extra 200 bucks. But man what smooth sounds eminated from those speakers. I had the displeasure of listening to the Diamond D9's in a Monte Carlo and although they had incredible midbass, the midrange lacked somewhat. Besides, the D9's are only available in a two-way configuration. Then I listened to a friend's corvette with Focal installed. His were the K3P PolyKevlar series. Top of that series line. they met my requirement for price, but at the time I was wowed by the Audison Amps so I decided to go with the KP 2-way's instead.
you were in kc werent you?I realize that Squeak, but to listen to them in an automotive environment, rather than on some board where they more than likely will be in infinate baffle, would be more beneficial to the listener rather than in a store. In every car, they are all competitors in either USAC or SLAP, and we set them to flat on their eq's or just turned them off. The only set that had custom crossovers was the bimmer with the morel's and scan speak drivers. All the others utilized the crossover that came with the speakers.