which is a better location, dash or door?

will5757

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just got a new truck, and there's speakers in both the dash (4*6's according to google) and door speakers (6.25's according to google) and i was wondering which is the better location? kick panels are out of the question due to where my ebrake is unfortunately.

 
Dash speakers are (almost always) never a good spot for speakers. Doors are better. The problem with dash speakers, is you get a "smearing" effect to the sound because you now have two sound waves hitting your ears at slightly different times. 1. The sound directly from the speaker and 2. the sound being reflected off the windshield. If you can mount your tweeters somewhere near the bottom of the A-pillar in the door, and then the mid/bass speakers in the stock door location, that may work well. Or, if both door locations are unobstructed from you, then go that route. I have my tweeters mounted in the dash in my WJ, in the stock locations, and I'm pondering moving them. I can hear the loss of quality compared to the rear door speakers (when I listen from the back seat). In my SRT, I'm planning on mounting the tweeters in the doors, right near the bottom of the a-pillar. Ideally, you want them as far from you as possible, to minimize the amount of difference in distance between them. Some of the better head units can compensate for this with a time delay on some of the channels, though.

 
hmm, i was going to get a new headunit for this truck eventually anyway (not doing this install immediately) maybe i'll get something where i can biamp my components (i already ahve some 5 1\4's), put the woofers in the door's, tweet's in the a pillars and timedelay them.

 
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