Advanced audio installers - Rear tweeter installation. C5

Subw00er · 07-26-2004, 01:08 AM

I'm in the process of tuning my system and am wondering where others found a good place for the rear tweeter is. I shoe-horned my dynaudio 160GT's in the stock rear location, but there is no room for the tweeters in there too. I'm planning on cutting a hole in the piece that covers the speakers (the inner panel) to mount the tweeter, but there is not a great place to do it. I've tried firing them forward, and sideways and the results are mediocre. Just wondering if anyone else did the research/tuning work to lessen my discovery effort.

This is my first system with rear speakers - fan of front image concentration.. I've built several high end systems (Butler amps, Dynaudio etc) so maybe this is my holdup with the rears.

While I'm on the topic, how did you guys seal your rear speakers. I was suprised to find them totally unsealed from the front of the speaker - sounds horrible, no low end! I was thinking of making it easy on myself and just dynamatting the enclosure the best I could. I'm sure this will help at least 50%, even though it would only yield a .3 cuft space or so.

EatRice · 07-26-2004, 11:17 AM

I do not use rear speakers in my C5. They are much closer to the ears than the fronts are. I generally do not use rear speakers at all in a SQ system.

Subw00er · 07-26-2004, 05:25 PM

I'm of the same mentality, my 350Z and Audi TT installs didnt have rears either. This time, when I dont care about sq and am going down the road at 60 with the windows open, I want to be able to crank it and for this I want rears. But if I'm going to install them, I might as well ask if anyone has any lessons-learned.

EatRice · 07-26-2004, 07:31 PM

Well i understand the want for more volume. If I did not have enough I would do the same thing. Let us know how it turns out.