NVX XSP65 vs older Polk DXI 6500 Pictures

[Jcsaudio]

So I’m in the process of upgrading the sound in my CX5 from the Polk DXI 6500 component set that I installed in this car back in 2014 to the NVX XSP65 mid woofers and Massive Audio CT 2 tweeters from the Morel MTD-12 tweeters that I’ve been listening to for a year. The Stinger Fast Ring set you see cut up I used to make a rain guard to protect the open coil of the NVX woofer and some Gorilla tape to make the foam a little more water proof. It’s crude but effective. The woofer is mounted to the hogged out stock speaker basket, which helps keep the large magnet away from the window and the woofer aligned with the door panel. It’s also wrapped in Second Skin butyl CLD, which got a little scrapped up when I used a grinder to flatten the opening for the slightly larger NVX woofer. Next will be some snapshots from REW of their FR as they are with no EQ. My initial impression is they are not a big upgrade from the Polk and the upper midrange has a hole in it. Those NVX mid woofers are very similar to the SB Acoustics SB17NRXC35-4, 6.5" Woofer but NVX gave them a slightly higher qts and 10 watts less RMS power handling probably due to being near infinite baffle.

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[ronin1717]

How much powah! you having going to them

how are you liking the ct 2

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

I felt the sb acoustics neo tweeters had a hole in the far upper sound spectrum as well.

 

[Jcsaudio]

I’m using the Pioneer PRS D4200F 75 WPC x 4 amplifier that’s in my signature.

So far the CT2 tweeters sound good with better upper range than the SB tweeters but they do not have the same level of detail as the SB Acoustics SB29RDCN ring dome tweeters I have. The CT2 tweeters also needed a bit more EQ than the Morel tweeters I had before. I’m currently installing a Pioneer 1330 NEX as I write this so I will do some testing after the install to rule out any potential funky factory radio EQ that might throw things off.

 

[Papermaker85 5,000+ posts]

SB acoustics makes them. they pretty decent..