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<blockquote data-quote="martiandancer31" data-source="post: 7466800" data-attributes="member: 616516">it&#039;s possible, but remember that if you&#039;re buying raw drivers you need to either design a passive xover (don&#039;t do this) or use an active xover (do this). A lot of processors will have active x-over capabilities built-in (some head units too) so this shouldn&#039;t be an issue.It depends on what your application is too. Again, assuming doors, you can go a couple different ways - if you build pods for the speakers, you&#039;re going to want a driver with a lower VAS and probably a lower qts as well. If the door is the box for the speaker, you&#039;re probably going to want something with a higher VAS and a qts higher than .4. Regardless of airspace, you probably want something with decent xmax, low inductance, good sensitivity, a decent size voice coil, etc, and those things can cost money.for example, i really, really wanted to use this driver :<a href="http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=264-874" target="_blank">Tang Band W6-1721 6-1/2&quot; Underhung Midbass Driver</a> it&#039;s an excellent driver, sensitivity is a tad low but not bad for a 6.5&quot; midbass driver. Other than that the parameters are excellent and the frequency response (on-axis, anyways) is fantastic. The reason I didn&#039;t was because i wouldn&#039;t be able to lower my windows - the magnet is too large and would be in the way. I ended up going with this driver ( <a href="http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=299-281" target="_blank">Peerless 831735 6-1/2&quot; HDS Driver</a> ). Sensitivity is lower than I wanted but nothing&#039;s perfect. The price is right and that was all the convincing I needed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="martiandancer31, post: 7466800, member: 616516"] it's possible, but remember that if you're buying raw drivers you need to either design a passive xover (don't do this) or use an active xover (do this). A lot of processors will have active x-over capabilities built-in (some head units too) so this shouldn't be an issue. It depends on what your application is too. Again, assuming doors, you can go a couple different ways - if you build pods for the speakers, you're going to want a driver with a lower VAS and probably a lower qts as well. If the door is the box for the speaker, you're probably going to want something with a higher VAS and a qts higher than .4. Regardless of airspace, you probably want something with decent xmax, low inductance, good sensitivity, a decent size voice coil, etc, and those things can cost money. for example, i really, really wanted to use this driver :[URL="http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=264-874"]Tang Band W6-1721 6-1/2" Underhung Midbass Driver[/URL] it's an excellent driver, sensitivity is a tad low but not bad for a 6.5" midbass driver. Other than that the parameters are excellent and the frequency response (on-axis, anyways) is fantastic. The reason I didn't was because i wouldn't be able to lower my windows - the magnet is too large and would be in the way. I ended up going with this driver ( [URL="http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=299-281"]Peerless 831735 6-1/2" HDS Driver[/URL] ). Sensitivity is lower than I wanted but nothing's perfect. The price is right and that was all the convincing I needed [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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