After I've spent so much time and efforts improving the interior of the
car and dumping the noise I've started to think that it would be inappropriate to have just
"some car audio" and that it's worth to invest to a decent system.
The good balance is important: I don't want a cheap badly sound set of components,
but the same time I don't want a high-end system that would cost several times the cost of the entire car. So, here is what
I've got:
The front scene: After long hours of exploration of the
internet, reading the car audio magazines and conferences, I've decided to choose the 6" component speakers MacAudio Mac Iron
2.16. Very good quality while the price is still quite reasonable.
Woofers will be mounted in the doors, for tweeters I still need to decide.
Here is the specs (from MacAudio website):
Power (normal/max): 100/150 Watt
Impendance: 4 Ohm
Frequency range: 34 - 28000 Hz
Sensitivity:
91 dB
The standard place in the door wasn't suitable for my new 6.5" speakers.
Fortunately, I haven't had to do too much work here - a spacer between the metal part of the door and the plastic panel is
suffucient. It gives more depth for the speaker, and it makes it possible to install larger speaker without cutting the metal.
The picture below shows one piece of the spacer:
The next picture shows all main parts of the spacer: two wooden parts and
the layer of synthetic felt:
Here you can see the assembled spacer (sticked and screwed) mounted on the
door:
I've learned that I should cover the holes in the door, to get a better
quality of sound, i.e. to make a closed box for the rear side of the speakers.
The photo below shows the work in progress: items (1) are already covered
holes, while items (2) are holes yet to be closed.
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