speaker bass

[shaneb 10+ year member]

i have 2 polk audio 6.5's in front doors and 2 jbl 6.5's in rear deck in a honda prelude, they are running off a boss 50x4 amp and an eclipse hu. i know these speakers must be capable of a deeper bass than im gettin' out of them, i notice that many new cars factory systems carry a deep bass. my question is how i can get my after market speakers, which i paid enough for that they should sound at least a little punchier than they are, to sound better, are there acoustical tricks to getting more out of the them? some kind of polyfill or something?

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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

get baffle for the back.

http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Item/Main.aspx?g=400&i=113KFC1682&tp=105&tab=other_items&viewAll=True

scroll down into the accessories and you will see a 6.5 inch baffle

 

[koolj76 10+ year member]

u ever try throwing an amp to them? ur head unit isnt going to put out enuf power for those speakers

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

i have 2 polk audio 6.5's in front doors and 2 jbl 6.5's in rear deck in a honda prelude, they are running off a boss 50x4 amp and an eclipse hu. ?

okay the baffles act as a "box" for them to resonate the sound? correct?

my worry is, unless you have seen a prelude trunk, the rear deck speakers are barely above the trunk tension bars, and the door speakers are near the window, if you have used these do they take up a lot of space? or just kind of slide on the magnet?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

i believe they just slide around the magnet like you said

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

oh...it appears they actually fill the hole and then you set the entire speaker in them...ok. so they do add a good or at least better resonance?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

oh...it appears they actually fill the hole and then you set the entire speaker in them...ok. so they do add a good or at least better resonance?

its supposed to give you better bass response

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

well ill scoop em up, and let y'all know what happens...hopefully they will fit in my car...

 

[Echo42987 10+ year member]

they don't give you that much more bass response. Probably not as much as your looking for. Most of the speakers that are after market lack in the midbass range because they figured they will be teamed up w/ a sub. I've installed these baffles on my Focals on due to the fact that they were getting wet and didn't hear much of a change in regards to bass.

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

Perhaps putting the door speakers in a properly sized sealed box, in a well damped door?

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

yea but they are already too large for the holes in the sense that i had to use a spacer to keep from hitting the window track, and the rears are also larger than factory so theres now way to do a box....i do have subs also, but there has to be a way to get that output from them...thanks for thetip on the bafles, maybe ill lay off buyin em...

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

How much bass you expect from coaxials? About the best you can do for the doors is deaden an seal any holes in them the best you can. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Deaden, deaden and then deaden some more. Also play with the phase. They might be out of relative phase with one another in the midbass frequencies causing some cancellation.

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

not a ton of bass thats what my subs are for, but at least enought where i would hear the bass guitar when my subs are off.

 

[WillyG4444 10+ year member]

Why would you turn your sub off? Aftermarket speakers aren't meant for the same things factory systems are for. Usually the components are for mids and highs and you get a sub for the lows... I don't understand why this question is asked so much =/