the chassis and that there is room for the cone to move forwards without hitting any oem
grille or door panel hardware. I have seen all these things and more and in every case poor
attention to detail on the part of the installer resulted in a sub standard result.
I’d like to make a point about the wiring of the speakers. It is preferable to rewire the
system with excellent quality OFC cable (obviously we recommend our own) but it is NOT a
critical factor for getting a good sound. Much more important is the careful physical
installation as I have detailed above.
Finally I want to introduce you to the concept of time alignment and stereo. This is a
complicated subject but an overview is that for the best stereo you should design your
speaker system to offer the most equal path lengths between the listener’s left ear and the
left speaker and the listener’s right ear and the right speaker. If you think about the design
of most cars, with either left or right hand drive and then speakers in their common
locations this is potentially a difficult brief.
Delving further, however, we can start to recognise that the lower down and further away
we can position the speakers (such as footwells or floor panels) the more equidistant the
two measurements become. The trade off when designing a no compromise install is that
the lower down the speakers are mounted (and this is especially true if you expect the
speakers to produce high frequencies such as tweeters) the more the sound stage suffers
at the edges.
