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In Reply to: RE: Built a transmission line using MB Quart drivers... posted by triamp on November 18, 2016 at 17:19:05
Well, on the one hand you can make crap and you'll probably sell a ton. Remember those 6x9's with 3 or 4 different tweeters mounted on the pole?
On the other hand, imagine building a speaker when you have no control over the cabinet. It'll probably be made of rattling pieces of thin metal and plastic. In addition, your speakers are probably going to fire into someone's calf, or a piece of glass 6" away. Oh, and they need to sound as good at freezing temperatures as they do on broil. Basically, you have to say, "We spent countless hours perfecting this in the lab, now go f**k it up with your installation."
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So true -Bry
here in the deep South, higher humidity, did not fare well for MB Quart speakers. I was thinking about this very subject very recently. Living out some fond memories I guess you could say. Anyhow, in the early 90's
Sony (not Sony ES) made some very generic looking car audio speakers
separate tweeter and 4 1/2 in midband driver. I can attest that these were very fine sounding speakers, inexpensive compared to the competition, as well.
Easily on par w/ Polk Audio and Boston Acoustics competition series.
Sounded as good as MB Quart to boot.
Road and engine noise should be a dead give away that fine audio in a car is not going to happen.
But I always did like to play "what's that kid listening too" as I hear boom, thud, boom, thud, thud, boom coming from a car driving down the road that I can hear from inside my HOUSE with my stereo on !!!
I'm not sure I'd want to do the research it would take to get any good at that game.
I've always felt that the people in the best position to make car stereo sound good are at the factory because they can devote time to tailoring the system to that particular environment. Unfortunately, that's something that rarely happens (or happens well). It's also getting much harder to replace a factory stereo that's built into the same plastic as half the dash and communicates with all the other electronics in the car.
Anyway, it was a fun hobby when I was younger but it was always hit-or-miss. I don't know if I'd ever devote the same time and energy to an installation today.
...with a Burmester system built it.
My '04 Cayenne had a Bose surround system that sounded pretty good. My current '13 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd. had a 10-driver system that was so hard and screetchy sounding I ripped most of it out.
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