Just a question,

I have been listening to my front stage over last couple of days and noticed that one speaker produces a more "well defined" bass than the other. When i say "well defined" i mean it is alot fuller and not as flat as the other one. I have tried switching the RCA's and tried a different amp, which points me to it being a speaker issue.

Is this normal? There is quite a difference - next thing i might try is to switch the speakers around to see if it is the door (both sides have been deadened with GSPOT paint and serenety max, service holes covered).

Alvin

check polarity

Though if it was polarity, you would lose bass from both speakers when sitting in the middle of the two. If you sat close to one and farther away form the other bass would still be present and not lost due to a polarity mix up. Just my thoughts.

Cheers,

Mike

try moving the balance control from left to right...if the bass is stronger on one side (or both compared to the middle), then the drivers are out of phase

I am sure i have checked the polarity. Will open up the doors and recheck - but am 95% sure that the polarity is correct. I am getting quite abit of bass from the fronts - just that one side has a little "better" bass than the other.

it is normal for one speaker in a car to sound different, due to your offset listening location. usually, the channel closest to you (right channel in australia) will sound worse than the left, as the left will be more on-axis, but the closer channel in a poorly setup system will be louder. also, each speaker is in a different environment, one behind a steering wheel column, the other not - not to mention path length differences. you can test this out for yourself by playing a good CD and using the balance to listen through only one speaker at a time, you will find that despite the speakers and amps and the sources being identical for both, each will sound remarkably different. this is one of the reasons why high end SQ cars of yesteryear (but also now) use an EQ for each channel, to get around this problem.

[ August 13, 2003, 13:12: Message edited by: T-Bro ]

To bypass this problem i am listening to the speakers individually with the doors open and me nealing down near the speaker - then doing the same for the other side.

I always found that with my speakers, i have NFI what caused it, i literally swapped everything and couldn't get the problem to move from door to door if i swapped the speakers from one door to the other.... It comes down to the install and the angle, however, i thought one sounded 'dead' and 'flat' while the other was bright and not enough midrange, but it was simply install, i never worked out what the hell was different, but it was something. i mean, i literally swapped everything over, and never came to a conclusion... I feel your pain!!!
Aaron

When you neal down to listen, are you using the same ear to listen to both speakers? Or left ear for one & right ear for the other?

Ahh....but what is the sound of hand clapping?