JL Audio 699440990431, Owner'S Manual

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| JL Audio - C1-650 Owner’s Manual
DIAGRAM A:
Less Desirable Speaker Placement
DIAGRAM B:
More Desirable Speaker Placement
WA R N I N G
!!
Double check the clearance for both speakers
before proceeding. Many cars are different from
one side to the other!
SPEAKER PLACEMENT CONSIDERATIONS
A component system gives you the ability to place
the woofer and tweeter separately in your vehicle
interior. This can be good or bad, depending on how
it’s done. As a general rule, the tweeters should be
placed relatively close to the woofers for best tonal
balance and most coherent imaging (the closer, the
better). Any separation greater than 8 inches (20 cm)
is likely to result in degraded sound quality.
Avoid placing tweeters where they will be blocked
by objects in the interior of the car (including seated
occupants). When selecting a mounting location,
look at both sides of the car to make sure that this
location is clear on both sides.
You can always experiment with tweeter
placement before committing to a final mounting
location. Simply connect the rest of the system and
allow plenty of wire length for the tweeters. Using
hook and loop or similar material, attach the tweeters
in different locations until you find the one where
they perform best.
Woofers will usually be placed into factory
speaker locations. If you have some woofer mounting
flexibility, keep the following in mind: Lower
mounting locations, such as the lower front corner
of a door or a kick-panel provide the greatest path
length distances for the sound emitted by the
woofer. For this reason, they are generally more
desirable than higher mounting locations. Higher
mounting locations often result in extreme near-
side soundstage bias which compromises the stereo
listening experience.