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In Reply to: Built a transmission line using MB Quart drivers... posted by triamp on November 18, 2016 at 17:19:05:
Car stereo, yeah, not an exact science. Some cars have speaker placement which is not too bad, in other cars it's clearly an afterthought. A skilled autosound shop can try to make the best of it, but buyers of aftermarket car audio tend to want loud, boomy, LOUD and bright systems. It's the rare car audio retrofit that is aimed at better imaging, coherence, detail....There are a number of luxury or near-luxury autos that have put a lot of engineering and consideration into their sound systems. The "ELS" systems in today's Acura models are really pretty excellent; the Mark Levinson (Harmon International) systems in Lexus cars sound very good. Even some of the Bose-engineered systems are decent- I have an Infiniti G37 and it's Bose system has good imaging and is decently balanced- sounds very good on classical, acoustic jazz and folk- the Bose engineer who designed it a violinist. Wes Philips of Stereophile even reviewed the setup, see http://www.stereophile.com/news/071706infiniti/ This Infiniti Bose system, however, leaves most hip-hop and pop listeners cold.
Interestingly, some high-end cars seemingly just slap big audio names into their cars without the real acoustic engineering needed to make them sound anything like realistic on music. For example, the B&W system in 2010-era Jaguars is not considered top-notch, the B&O system in Aston Martins is said to be lacking and many of the other Bose systems out there in BMW's are not all that great (though better than "stock" audio)
Science doesn't care what you believe.
Edits: 11/20/16
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