Time to work on this is almost as scarce as with the el camino. Had to completely rework my plastic kick panel boxes to fit the monster DS18 speakers,
Definitely sounds better than ancient pioneers I tried, makes the rear speakers sound dull. Getting 2 more soon. These speakers are efficient, but are begging for more amp.
Still not really happy with sound yet & i can see why, this vehicle design is screwing me. Seats are closer to center than average vehicle , but corners are even fatter. Sounds better from drivers seat if I move towards middle.. Overhead, these huge rounded padded roof corners force speaker box to be past left ear as you can see in pic. I'll have to do custom boxes to get speakers into corners. May take up part of upper rear of bulkhead wall to make large airspace for 2 more of these monster ds18 speakers. They do seem to have a strong mid bass potential if in a bigger solid box.
The front kickpanel boxes seem to have same problem of sound being too far from ends, they are about 1/2 of the way into the seat center. Looks like i may need to strongly consider doing something with door panels. Sound also has a little muffled effect being way down low, as does my el camino with kick panel pods. Kinda like a person wearing a mask.
I really hate redoing things multiple times, getting asked aren't you done yet. If it ain't right, it ain't right.
Definitely sounds better than ancient pioneers I tried, makes the rear speakers sound dull. Getting 2 more soon. These speakers are efficient, but are begging for more amp.
Still not really happy with sound yet & i can see why, this vehicle design is screwing me. Seats are closer to center than average vehicle , but corners are even fatter. Sounds better from drivers seat if I move towards middle.. Overhead, these huge rounded padded roof corners force speaker box to be past left ear as you can see in pic. I'll have to do custom boxes to get speakers into corners. May take up part of upper rear of bulkhead wall to make large airspace for 2 more of these monster ds18 speakers. They do seem to have a strong mid bass potential if in a bigger solid box.
The front kickpanel boxes seem to have same problem of sound being too far from ends, they are about 1/2 of the way into the seat center. Looks like i may need to strongly consider doing something with door panels. Sound also has a little muffled effect being way down low, as does my el camino with kick panel pods. Kinda like a person wearing a mask.
I really hate redoing things multiple times, getting asked aren't you done yet. If it ain't right, it ain't right.
