Squawker upgrade, help!

Spidy - nice find.

How did they fit in the front holes - did you need to cut anything etc?

I've got a pair on order to play with (after J bolt is completed of course)

TIA!

 

Amazon.com - free 2 day shipping (premium member)...

Not sure how they will mesh with my MB Quarts (1.5" dome on the A pillars). I guess I'll run them parallel with the front speakers / MB cross-over and cross my fingers (for the price, it's worth a try - at minimum, I may just throw in an extra amp for them)... Of course, now I'll have to move the GPS and XM antennae...

 

There are only 6 pair left in stock. BTW, there was this note on the order page
"In stock but may require an extra 1-2 days to process."
My Amazon Prime 2 day free shipping will arrive today, 3 days instead of 2. That's still good shipping time.

 

Me 2

Edit: What xs650 said...

 

Ordered Wed Afternoon... Amazon Prime w/free shipping. Arrived noon Friday! Last I checked, Amazon still had some... also at Parts Express.

 

Spiderman, thank you for the encouragement... but I'm informed that I have higher priority projects in the queue
Also, dittoes on the kudos you've received from others; your write-ups are exemplary! :hail:

 

Another option - the Infinity Reference 3032CF 3.5" speakers are also on Amazon (reg $99 - now $26 + shipping)... It's been reviewed fairly well......

 

FWIW, the Infinity speakers are out to 21Khz. I don't know about you guys, but my hearing was tested to top out at about 19K, so the difference between 21K and 28K would be lost on me anyway.
Also remembering that we're not in our living room either, so ambient sounds would easily mask the difference if it were audible in the first place.
Another interesting factor is that the Infinitys are more efficient than the Pioneers (88dB/watt vs 91dB/watt). That's a pretty significant difference, along with a 2 ohm impedance (which would make it a good fit in the JBL system which uses a 2 ohm squawker)

Just something to think about....

I'd probably do this if I had the guts to tear out the A pillars, etc. to get to them......

 

Done!!
spiderman thanks for the document, it really helps to follow along, the only thing different I did was reuse the blue Toyota speaker wire adapter (took off the crossover), it popped right off with a screwdiver, also I had no dremel to cut the speaker grill but the exacto knife did fine,

it really seems like there was no dash speaker before, this little speaker is loud!
anyway thanks again,
putty

 

I just finished replacing my Dayton Audio RS75-4 3" sqawkers:



With the 3.5" Infinity 3032cf's:


These are quoted as 2 Ohms, but it's Infinitys "True 4 Ohms." I used the 100uF cap that came with them to set the highpass at 400Hz for the 3.5" woofer.

At 91db/W-m, these are a lot louder than the Daytons at 83dB/W-m and they extend to higher frequencies too (21kHz as mentioned before). Can't go wrong for $40 shipped. They sound awesome, and all vocals and higher frequencies come way out at the base of my windshield now.

Install isn't very clean as you need to do some minor plastic trimming (but nothing that destroys how the old speakers would mount back up), and now I am going to remove the tabs on the black grille covers and affix them to the dash with just velcro. Shouldn't be able to tell once it's finished, and I can always buy new grille covers if necessary.

Thanks Spiderman for getting me thinking about replacing my Daytons!

Dave

 

After thinking about it a little more, I will just make some simple aluminum plates, cut out for the ~4" diameter speaker size, and cover them with UV-treated black cloth. These will just sit on top of the dash and be held in by velcro.

The reasons are:
1) I would like to angle my sqawkers and make them more effective, and will need all the space under the grille to do so.

2) The OEM grille only has an ~2" diameter opening anyways for the sqawkers.

Dave

 

I just put my Pioneers in - there should be no reason to 'angle' the speakers - any way you look at it, you are listening to the reflection - which seems to be a pretty nice angle with the window.

 

limiting frequencies (low) to the squaker replacement...

I put in the Pioneers, and they really add a nice balance (lucky - they are working fine with my MB Quart tweeter A pillar mount).

My problem is I'm running them paralleled with the MBs. The HU has the power to drive it - but clearly, there are low frequencies running at the squakers (you can hear them bottoming out on certain bass heavy tracks).

Any easy cheap ideas out there??? A simple 300uF cap in line with + should block frequencies above 130hz...

Don't really want to go the separate amp route (though I have a few laying around)...