Hey guys,

I'm doing my current install and am up to creating the door pods for my speakers and was just wondering how people went about finding the angle that suited them best. I don't really have anyone to help me out to hold the speakers and move them about (I can't see how this would work very well anyway unless they were huddled up on the floor ). I've read through all the FG door pods tuts on this site, tried a search and tried looking on other sites / google but couldn't find anything very helpful. Just wondering what other people did to find out what angle to mount their speakers. Sorry if this is a repost, I did try a search.

Cheers

Without a fair bit of trial and error its hard to tell the best position for each car and speaker combination. I'd try for basically aiming it at the opposite headrest and you should end up with a decent result. Woofers are somewhat less vital than tweeters - tweets you really should drive around with them blue tac'd in different positions for a week or so if you are really serious about finding that spot that sounds best to you.

ah cheers. I've read in a few tutorials about "picking a spot X inches in front on your ear and X inches down and aiming the passenger side side speaker at this point and adjust" but I never quite knew how to go about this. I suppose that's really where TA can come into play right?

i have found roughly the further forward and the lower u can get em in the doors the better. (not always tho)


and i generally face to about opposite headrest or opposite B pillar.

i tried about a dozen(litterally) places/angles for my tweets. dash doors and kicks. mostly on the dash. i found that i was almost matching the angle on my mids. once id found a sweet spot for the tweets. but all cars are different.

ah thats fair enough I might give that a shot (finding best angle for tweets and matching them with mids to see how it sounds). thanks

No car is the same, some seats are closer to the door trim than others , some door trims are closer to your leg position, some footwell designs are heaps different. Theres only one answer ~~test and tune and these things make it easy.
Super glue em , bond em ,screw em or bolt em, then when u get your liking just rip em out and glitter pod using your aquired angles.

http://www.mobileelectronics.com.au/forums...showtopic=73107

All depends on the characteristics of the actual components, and particularly the frequency response of the components.

The more off axis you mount the components the more heavilly they will roll-off in the top end, so it's good to adjust angles to give optimal response.

Sure frequency response isn't everything, but it's the you will notice first, and the thing you will notice most.

Looking at tweeters for example...

Some (such as Morel MT-23's) tend to roll off in the top end naturally, so running them more then around 15 degrees off-axis will cause further roll-off, which is undesirable.

Other tweeters (such as Focal TN-52's) tend to rise in the top end, up towards 20khz and beyond. As a result, such tweeters can actually be a little bright and fatiguing when mounted directly on-axis, so a little bit of angle can actually soften then up and make them sound a little more pleasant.

Same type of thing applies to all speakers (mids and even subs) when you go up high enough in frequency, so the mounting angles are very much dependant on the individual speakers being used.

it varies as the guys above have said,

i prefer to make a skeleton of wat you want the pod to look like, and use long chip board screws to attach ya speaker ring, that way ya can adjust the angle by simply screwing them in or out!!

krem