6.5" speaker install odyssey

[DeeTees]

I have just done this 6.5" speaker install and uploaded some photos to the album. The photos should be viewed starting with number 1 to Nr 19. Somehow you upload the photos in sequence and the board puts the last one first and the first one last, almost biblical.

http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/forum/album.php?albumid=139.

The sound is just lovely now, way beyond hopes and expectations. It took a few evenings and a weekend, mostly the time was spent figuring out how to do it by trying this and that. This and that, means trial and inevitable errors.

 

[makeitfit]

Sweet
Can't beat some proper sounds , good job mate :clap

 

[DeeTees]

I have no message edit button, how can you edit posts?
I deleted the album, uploaded again and the sequence is a bit better.
Here's the new link
http://www.nissan4x4ownersclub.com/forum/album.php?albumid=140

 

[96terrano]

Looks good mate! How many speakers do you have in your t2?

 

[DeeTees]

3 years ago I put 4 Alpine 5x7 in the 4 doors, replacing the stock and I installed them badly. I just chucked them in and thought they can't be as bad as the wired paper stock. But I was wrong, I achieved the impossible, the sound was actually worse. Considering the abysmal quality of the stock speakers, it's a miracle that they sound as they do.

I have just installed those components in the front doors and only listen to them. I still have the Alpines in the rear doors but they are silent partners. ATM, I'm okay with the 2 speakers.

Pretty much I have to go with what's available here at the best price, usually twice the going retail price abroad. I took a gamble on a mid range DLS REFERENCE R6.3 6.5" 3-Way Component Speakers (Danish), the price was relatively very good, the speakers looked wel made with good materials and finished to perfection, overall very tidy for €155. Seeing as they were going for $300 on ebay in USA, it felt like a good deal so I decided to buy the 12" subwoofer in a sealed cabinet with my savings
I prefer the deep bass sound from a sealed rather than the loud sledgehammer thud from a vented cabinet.
I guess 50% of the sound improvement comes with the sound deadening and 50% with the better speakers. I was determined to achieve the sound deadening with spending as little money as possible but still achieving the necessary.
The 2 front doors have this lovely dead thud when you close them and have a heavy feel about them as you give them a push to close them.
The undeadened rear doors sound like an empty tin can in comparison.