Focus Tweeter Pods - Worklog - PICS!

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

i would remove the plastic to be safe. also, sick work. and RHD cars ftw.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Nice work , how is the imaging with the tweets aimed at you like that ? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[BaseSteala112 10+ year member]

Really nice work. Which resin did you use?

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

Im starting on my tweets and kick today cuz my comps just now hit my doorstep. Thanks LostSoul!

 

[MA$E 10+ year member]

that sh*t looks mean! nice work.

 

[Pull9Gs 10+ year member]

i would remove the plastic to be safe.

Might do this when I amp them. I just wanted to keep them scratch free for when I mount them on show.

how is the imaging with the tweets aimed at you like that ?

Not really sure what you mean...

The sound is a huge amount better though. I think this is because the tweets are actually pointing straight at me rather than some where near. The backs of the tweeters are also "sealed" off better than they were before, although im not sure how much of a difference this makes...

Which resin did you use?

Pretty sure it was Davids resin, although Im not at home so I cant check.

Thanks LostSoul!

Ehh??? Me no "LostSoul"

Thanks for all the great comments guys.

Any recommendations on the bullet connectors???

Leo

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

bullets? theyre a bit hard to work with, i like male/female quick disconnects... the spade kind like the input terminals on normal speakers.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Nice work.. does your fofo look like this?!

 

[Pull9Gs 10+ year member]

does your fofo look like this?!

Fortunately not, MK2s ****! Even if it is a ST.

Leo

 

[jaycross 10+ year member]

VERY nice! cant say it much better than that.... simply awesome

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Wow, amazing looking pods. Funny it all started with a pair of socks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[acold7dusta 10+ year member]

very impressive, i may do this once i find the sweet spot to aim them at

 

[Pull9Gs 10+ year member]

Thanks again for the comments people.

I love it when people ask: "How'ed you make 'em?"

"Well I started with a pair of socks..."

i may do this once I find the sweet spot to aim them at

I just aimed both of them directly at me, the driver. Somebody asked about imaging but I dont know what they meant. Is it not necessarily correct to just aim them at your ears?

Again comments would be great as Im confused about this.

Leo

 

[Pull9Gs 10+ year member]

Help with imaging please?

Ta

 

[gsxrjjordan 10+ year member]

Excellent job - better than mine, for sure, although mine are in the A-pillars not the mirror backing.

About imaging - I'm sure other pro's can describe this better, but I'll try to be brief.

The biggest struggle as a car audio SQ enthusiast is creating the illusion of a larger "sound stage" than you have to work with. The "sound stage" is where your brain imagines the sounds are actually coming from - now in my home system (Fultron Premiers from the late 70s), I have a physical 8 ft separation between my tweeters , which are about 12 ft from me, pointed directly at my head, with sound absorbtion above, below, and behind me - this makes for a fantastic soundstage, as voices seem to be coming from anywhere in between the speakers. In a car, your physical distance from the speakers is much MUCH less, and the speakers are much closer together. To create the illusion of a larger soundstage, you have to play tricks on your brain, hence "imaging".

When you look at car speaker tests, they do a frequency repsonse test for "on axis" and "off axis" response. On axis is usually described as between 0* and 30* (* = degrees) either direction from "pointed directly at you". Most car audio speakers (tweeters especially) are designed to not only sound great on axis, but off axis as well, as many factory locations are not ideal.

Now, frequency response and overall imaging impression are two different entities - flat on-axis frequency response does not guarantee good imaging, and generally makes voices sound like they're coming from your tweeters, about 2 ft from you. Very accurate, but sounds too "small".

Big sound comes from either running a time delay on your closest speakers, so the sound "seems" like its coming from the distance of your furthers speaker, or actually bouncing the sound off something like a windshield (like my CDTs do). This has the opportunity to loose accuracy, but sounds much more "acoustic"/"real"/better.

Basically, when someone asks "how's the imaging", they want to know... a] how accurate does it sound, but more importantly... b] where does it sound like the voices are coming from/how "big" is the sound.

Talk to your local SQ champs, and they'll go on for days about how to get better imaging/a bigger soundstage in your car, as well as probably turning my little description here into swiss cheese //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif