Car Audio Basics

Gav

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Gav
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Galant
6 speaker + 2 tweeter and 1 subs? i once wants to use 8 (7.1) channel amp and bought an galant avance rear door trim with speaker pod from germany, but my friend said the sound will be bad, mixed up, expensive and hard to set in sedan, and my audio processor only provide 5.1 dts. so I drop the whole set up idea and sell the rear door trim with speaker pod locally ha ha ha

Atm it's 6 speakers 2 tweeters all alpine type r's
No sub just yet but will add one at some stage
Think the fronts are running off an amp
 

wintertidenz

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Daniel
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98 Galant VR4
You can run a full active setup if you know what you're doing. I've done this and apart from my CarPC shitting itself (it goes for a skate when I hit boost, whoops) it's a really good sounding system.
My current setup is a 3-way active in front, with rear fill and two subs to go in.
If you want to go this route though you need some serious processing power and patience for tuning.

If you are running tweeters for the back speakers, you will find your system imaging is off and the sound will sound funny - I'd run some coaxials in the door turned down for the rear passengers and focus your power to the front.
 

MatiLP640

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Matt
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1999 Black Legnum VR4
Hi guys, Im looking to upgrade my audio soon and because Im not car audio specialist I need some help. Im planning to run Morel Tempo 6 2-way front and Hertz HSK130 rear.

Now the specs:
Morel:
Power Handling (Wrms) / Peak Power (W) - 120 / 280
Sensitiity (dB) - 90
Impedance Ω - 4 Ohm
Frequency Response (Hz) - 50-22000
Crossover - 3800 Hz WF: LPF-6dB TW: HPF-6dB

Hertz:
Power Handling (Wrms) / Peak Power (W) - 100 / 200
Sensitiity (dB) - 91
Impedance Ω - 4 Ohm
Frequency Response (Hz) - 60-22000


I want to amp them and here is my main problem, how to choose correct amp, some people saying that amp should be 1/2 of speakers power, some say the same and other that more powerful than speakers :/ all I know is that I need 4 channel one lol. Can somebody advice me something? What power rating would be the best for this setup?

Cheers guys :)
 

CANDEE

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Jeremy
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1998 Galant VR4
I have the Tempo's and am running them on 80rms with full deadened and sealed doors in my daily and they are great. However im about to go active on them and give them about 100rms for each of the mids and tweeters.

If i was going to stay passive id be looking at 100-150rms per channel from a 4 channel. I only really need that much as my sub stage is overpowering the front.. ;)
 

Albrek

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2008 Volvo V50 Turbo (220awKW)
2017 Ford Mustang GT (300rwKW)
1979 Honda Civic (probably 10fwKW)
2015 Yamaha XSR700 (?KW)
1991 Toyota Supra MA70 Targa (0KW, being restored)
Fitting some Alpine DDLinears (DDL-R170S) will let you know how easy the fitment is ssoon :) (as soon as i figure out how to feed the speaker wired through ! gah!
 

Albrek

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2008 Volvo V50 Turbo (220awKW)
2017 Ford Mustang GT (300rwKW)
1979 Honda Civic (probably 10fwKW)
2015 Yamaha XSR700 (?KW)
1991 Toyota Supra MA70 Targa (0KW, being restored)
EDIT/UPDATE:
So got the Alpine DDLinear kit in, huzzah!!
Both the rear set (DDL-R170C) and front set(DDL-R170S) fit fine in the Legnum. you can update the front page if you like! :) The woofers fit well with a slightly smaller mount, or if you redrill some holes in the existing mount you can seat it quite nicely. The rear compnent speakers have a centre-mounted tweeter with a crossover for it and everything which is awesome

The tweeters fit fine after removing Alpine's standard mount/covers - though you do need some strong glue to affix them to the tweeter mounts (they won't quite fit from my experience with the angled Alpine mount/covers)

It's an expensive bit of kit but with the right amp (I power them off a Pioneer GM-D9604 Class D amp) the sound is incredible.
 

rbrtpalin

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Hey all,
Updating my sound soon.
Has anyone tried Rockford Fosgate? Like their stuff and think it fits in nicely with the Mitsi brand since they went this way with later cars sound upgrades?

What you's reckon?
 

AKKO

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Chris
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1998 Galant VR4 Type-V (Facelift)
Mainly had Eclipse in my Mitsubishi vehicles.

Rockford Fosgate 360.X were a nice bit of kit mind you subs also weren't bad, also rate MB Quart & Focal.
 

CANDEE

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Jeremy
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1998 Galant VR4
Running Vibe Black Death Components up front. Everything fits perfectly. Sound deadened the doors while I was in there. Also running a Hertz EBX F25.5 slim sub.
Have you sealed the big holes up? You will get more out of sealing the holes vs sd'ing the outer skin. Best overall is to sd outer skin, seal up the holes and sd over the inner skin as well. ie:
Before:
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After:
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