do it right or be lazy ? mk3

[VDUBD]

thats my boot install, looks uneven but i cant hold camera square haha.

[glidn]

well i guess i can shed some light on the subject seeing, i have already replaced my front stage in my vr6 golf 5 times and i have only had the car for around 1.5 months. lol

Those new series Alpine speakers honestly are not the best.
If you are dead set on the alpines however try and find some SPS-171A.
I have set of those in their currently.

The sound suprisingly good, they fit in the stock door location, but you have to cut majority of the plastic away behind the plastic grill, so the doors still look stock.

I have only mounted my tweeters in the top location as i'm wanting them out of sight at present, plus it's not the ideal place for sound, unless you have a cross-over that can run -6db attenuation on the tweeters. This will help with sound stage.

Also as the tweeter mounted in factory location before, i would strongly recommend against pointing it towards you like that. For the left tweeter basically angle it as far to the windshield as possible and also a little bit to the right side of the car. For the right side tweeter firing virtually upwards but angling it to the left side of the car. This should have with the staging in the car.

but best place to mount the tweeter in these cars i found was just above the mid on the door, there is a little flat recess you can mount it to and it point approx to the oppisite sides naval, that i found the best.

something else i can also strongly recommend is wiring the Tweeters out of phase to the mid. the tweeters generally lose the harshness if they have some and also makes the mid and tweeter blend better together.

VDUBD - crazy install man, gone way overboard their, i'm sure i can recommend two subs that will require approx 1/4 of the current boot space sound better, go louder and deeper but most of all you will actually have a boot. But in saying that i have also found firing the subs at the roof in a mk3 also seems to give the best results. No firing towards the boot here.

I'm not knocking your install, i just personally dont get why people want to take up their whole boot for two speakers/subs, when you can maintain full boot usage and have the same sound or better.

I'm a big fan of being able to still use my boot. lol

[diveboy]

for the time being, i've replaced the standards in the front door with the 6.5 inch precision response from jaycar. not a bad sound out of them, just need to wire up the back doors now.

I'll look at something bigger later, for now it's nice sound for the daily drive.

[Mrk_Mickey]

My amplifiers are both Jaycar.... Great stuff for the money, because you pay for what you buy, not for brands or anything like that.

[Spyda]

for the time being, i've replaced the standards in the front door with the 6.5 inch precision response from jaycar. not a bad sound out of them, just need to wire up the back doors now.

I'll look at something bigger later, for now it's nice sound for the daily drive.

I have the same speakers, the kevlar stuff. They are great, espcialy for what i paid for them.

I also have the jaycar 1000rms mono block and im very suprised. My friend has 2 jaycar 1000rms mono blocks, running max all day for the past 1-2years with no problems. Well over 140db aswell.

It's not all about brands. Alpine is overrated, it only gets good when you get their best stuff and even then its not realy worth it.

[DubSteve]

I'm not knocking your install, i just personally dont get why people want to take up their whole boot for two speakers/subs,

But I'm so gangsta that I will do that with just a 10" sub.

[Mrk_Mickey]

But I'm so gangsta that I will do that with just a 10" sub.

Any excuse, eh Steve....

[DubSteve]

Any excuse, eh Steve....

Damm straight homie!

[glidn]

yeah nice install Dubsteve.

At least your boot is still usuable thou.

[VDUBD]

nahh i dun use my boot, so dont car if i have no boot space