Rainbow Germaniums?

[headless 10+ year member]

Thanks for the responses regarding the Hex! Sounds as though they would have been a mistake. I am leaning toward the Germaniums, but also looking at the X Line for their shallow mounting ability and the cal25 tweeter. The SLCs are another option, but I wish they came with the cal25 instead of the smaller .75" tweeter. If I go with the Germaniums I will be making custom kicks for my DC Tundra (very shallow mounting in the doors).

Wow, how shallow is the mounting? i was able to fit them into the stock mounts in my 99 camry without adding any spacers... i'd love to get them in some kicks, i think the sound stage would rock. The crossovers on the germaniums have some great tweakability and a specific setting for kick panel mounting. I have the silk version of the tweets and i love them. I have them mounted in the stock camry location at the bottom of the a pillar which needed a bit of attenuation to make them a bit less 'bright' but from kicks it'd probably be nice to have them louder //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif They get decent volume from 4x50w (they are bi-amp and bi-wire capable) but needed a bit too high of a gain setting and were drown by my sub (12w6 on a punch 60) at lower volumes... but really come to life on 120w+ (i'm @ 2x140w right now), blending well and getting nice and loud -- with higher gain settings, loud enough to overpower the 12w6 on the punch 60 easily. I think they would **** up 200w per side and not care //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif My 2x140w eclipse amp went into protect mode after a good bit of heavy listening...they like the power. 75w would be quite decent though. I've got them crossed high pass @ 80hz/18db...the passive's are set to the stock 2.2khz x-over point (but can be tweaked to 2.6khz independently for the tweet and woofer...hee hee)

I posted a thread recently with install pics (and pics of the speakers themselves) and impressions:

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149933

 

[Qfactor03 10+ year member]

The Tundra Double Cab has really tight doors. The limit is 2" deep with no mods, about 2-3/8" deep with a spacer. You can't add very much spacer due to how close the door panels are to the mounting surface of the speaker location. I have read something about using washers to change the spacing of the power window track to allow up to a 2-1/2" depth but no actual instructions on how to do the mod.

The x-Line would allow a straight drop in install, but the Germaniums sure look nice. One more communication to 6spd and I think I will have a final decision made.

 

[Qfactor03 10+ year member]

I wound up ordering the Germaniums (thnx 6spdcoupe). The Germs were not much of a price jump from the x-lines considering the price of the x's. I am going to perform the window track mod and add an mdf spacer to gain the space necessary to install them.

Now the wait begins for the new Soundstream Reference amp (240x2 bridged ) that I have on order.

I'll post a follow up on the performance of the comps and the amp as soon as I can. That is, if I don't give up and cancel the order for the amp.

 

[LeX 10+ year member]

nice ur going to love those speakers. wish i had some