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<blockquote data-quote="DejaWiz" data-source="post: 2577212" data-attributes="member: 569941">I have a MKIV GTI with the Type X&#039;s in there. Lightly deadened, nothing extreme...so I can&#039;t say how the X&#039;s would sound in a stock door. The mids are fairly deep mounting, so I&#039;d recommend fabricating spacers out of MDF....there&#039;s about 3&quot; of space between the factory speaker mount and the panel grill, so plenty of room for spacers.If you want something that sounds good with or without deadening (IMO, of course), then check into something like the Polk Momo&#039;s. Between all the comps I auditioned in my price range, it came down to the X&#039;s and Momo&#039;s. I loved the midbass on the Momo&#039;s, but I feel the clarity and detail of the X&#039;s can&#039;t be beat in the $150-200 price range. I haven&#039;t auditioned the Rainbow SLC 265&#039;s, but they are getting quite some attention (which I can&#039;t discern between them being just a huge forum boner or really that good since I have not auditioned them yet).Comps I auditioned:1. Diamond D661A and S2. Infinity Kappa and Perfect3. Polk dB6500, Momo MMC6500, and Sig Ref SR6500 (I wanted the SR&#039;s sooo bad, but didn&#039;t have the ducats for &#039;em)4. Alpine Type S, Type R and Type X 6.5&#039;s5. Kicker RS and KS6. Clarion Phaze 1All comps were running off a Diamond amp with 38.5W RMS per channel.Took a while to run all over town and listen to various comps, but the results were well worth it and really paid off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DejaWiz, post: 2577212, member: 569941"] I have a MKIV GTI with the Type X's in there. Lightly deadened, nothing extreme...so I can't say how the X's would sound in a stock door. The mids are fairly deep mounting, so I'd recommend fabricating spacers out of MDF....there's about 3" of space between the factory speaker mount and the panel grill, so plenty of room for spacers. If you want something that sounds good with or without deadening (IMO, of course), then check into something like the Polk Momo's. Between all the comps I auditioned in my price range, it came down to the X's and Momo's. I loved the midbass on the Momo's, but I feel the clarity and detail of the X's can't be beat in the $150-200 price range. I haven't auditioned the Rainbow SLC 265's, but they are getting quite some attention (which I can't discern between them being just a huge forum boner or really that good since I have not auditioned them yet). [B]Comps I auditioned:[/B] 1. Diamond D661A and S 2. Infinity Kappa and Perfect 3. Polk dB6500, Momo MMC6500, and Sig Ref SR6500 (I wanted the SR's sooo bad, but didn't have the ducats for 'em) 4. Alpine Type S, Type R and Type X 6.5's 5. Kicker RS and KS 6. Clarion Phaze 1 All comps were running off a Diamond amp with 38.5W RMS per channel. Took a while to run all over town and listen to various comps, but the results were well worth it and really paid off. [/QUOTE]

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