How many people only have front speakers?

[jluv 10+ year member]

I have rear speakers in my SUV. I carry passengers almost daily. I also use 5.1 for my concert DVDs from time to time. My fronts are getting a LOT more power.

 

[gl0ck 10+ year member]

Fronts, ONLY FTW

 

[type[s5] 10+ year member]

waiting on a new sub amp, but in the meantime using all speakers. Once i get my new amp installed, gonna run just fronts. I'd assume that not running rears is for anyone with a subwoofer(s)?

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Im curious about running rears, not that I want to though. But wouldnt having them hooked up being counter productive for the fact that the are drawing power from your car that could be going to your amp (assuming your electrical is fairly stock) and wouldnt the subs pretty much just cancel out rears if you left them in the stock placement? Stock placement being different from car to car of course...

This is pretty much what I experienced first hand anyways and just want to confirm it.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Another thing. Since Im probably never going to run rear speakers again, what would yall think of opening up as much space between my trunk and the cabin of my car as possible in order to increase the SPL?

My rear speakers are covered up by a huge fiberboard panel and 2 stock square covers. Im thinking of snipping away enough metal to match the area of the covers exactly. I'll probably end up creating an extra 35-40 sq in of area for the air to flow through.

 

[sporty_drew 10+ year member]

The only proble I know of is your bracing placement in your rear deck. I wanted to do that with my monte when i had it but the bracing was more than i wanted to work around, but it all depends on the car.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

I don't think it'll be an issue as far as harming the structural integrity of the frame or trunk. There's one beam down the middle and then 1 on each far side of the speakers.

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

I got a rear speaker. But it's not plugged in. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

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[sporty_drew 10+ year member]

well then opening it up would be a really good thing.

 

[jluv 10+ year member]

Im curious about running rears, not that I want to though. But wouldnt having them hooked up being counter productive for the fact that the are drawing power from your car that could be going to your amp (assuming your electrical is fairly stock)

Not an issue unless you are running a lot of power to the rears, which you definitely wouldn't want to do because the whole idea is to not let the rear speakers draw your staging back.

and wouldnt the subs pretty much just cancel out rears if you left them in the stock placement?

No. The subs are playing sub bass, likely below 80hz, and your rear speakers would play above that. Your subs won't "cancel" out your rear speakers anymore than they would your front speakers.

The reason most people don't want to run rear speakers is because ideally (for SQ) you want to have all of the sound coming from in front of you, like it would if you were watching a band live. Having rears will pull the stage back. Some like that, because the sound will "surround" you more. Some people want rears because when they crank their volume to ungodly levels, they have twice as many speakers in the cabin to make it that much louder. And then you might consider your rear passengers. In a large vehicle, just having fronts only can make the music sound as if it is coming from far away, and when you consider the seatbacks and other geography of the interior, it's all deflected anyway. Not cool for them, but is that important to you? It is for me. It's also badass to put in a 5.1 concert DVD and have the band in front of me and crowd noise behind me. I have two RATM DVDs that put me right in the pit.