RE: Speakers

["Jeff Wheeler" <j_dubbya@msn.com>]

I guess I'll weigh in on the topic once more, and ask for a little 
redirection....

I don't know if I'm a "newbie," per se, although my non-factory-sized-hole 
speaker install experience is limited to grafting a pair of 5-1/4" Polks into 
the door holes on my previous '82, and reinforcing the hatch panel to 
accomodate a couple of 6"x9" Infinity 3-ways.  The 5-1/4 job wasn't the 
hardest thing I ever did, and I may well consider something like it again 
(thanks to all who offered tips; they're filed for future reference).  It's 
just bee na few years since I kept abreast of what's available, and I'm 
getting the impression that DIN-sized 4x6s just plain aren't.

I guess the appeal there is not so much one of time or effort savings, but of 
being able to furtively pop them into the car in a few seconds, and hopefully 
avoid the "don't you have something better to do/how much did THOSE cost?" 
conversation with the soon-to-be-Mrs.

Here's another query that ought to date me a little: anyone know of a company 
making a high-performance, no-frills cassette head unit with line-level inputs 
for a portable CD player?  I used to have this Concord deck that had no 
auto-reverse, only 5 presets, and was in the old-fashioned 2-knob 
configuration.  It had Dolby-C, and boasted (and delivered, I think) true 
20-20K range with no discernible hiss.  It looked like crap, so no one stole 
it, and lasted about 7 years.  I paid less than $300 for it brand new.  It had 
a line in/out loop designed to accomodate an equalizer which I easily adapted 
for my CD when the spirit moved me.  I'm guessing if I want both, I'm going to 
have to go the CD changer route, but I'm not crazy about it.

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From: 	owner-scirocco-l@mantis.privatei.com on behalf of Ryan Schuermann
Sent: 	Thursday, May 29, 1997 5:01 AM
To: 	Riley McDowall
Cc: 	scirocco-l@privateI.com
Subject: 	Re: Speakers

> >Anyone with a few hours of free time on their hands and a few tools
> >can do this install themselves. Installing the 5.25" in the stock 4x6
> >only requires you to remove the inner door skin (5 min), remove
> >the plastic speaker housing, and cut out room to make the wider
> 
> How is it mounted?  Does the 5.25 use the same screw locations as the stock
> 4x6?

see my web page under 16v section
http://accomp.com/~ryan/scirocco.html

> >speaker fit. The seperate tweet takes about 5min to poke a hole in
> >a prime location on the door panel and screw it in place. then just
> >run your speaker wire from the tweet to the dash and reassemble.
> >For any competant installer it should take less than 1 hour total
> >on each door.
> 
> The original poster seemed like a car audio newbie, and I seriously doubt
> that someone who had never installed anything like this before could do it
> in the same time as a professional installer.  They also may or may not
> want to try somethig like this themselves - cutting holes in the door
> panels is a one-shot deal.

true, thats why I said that it would take a few hours to do, and
a professional it shuold be an hour or under easily. And true, I
hate cuttign holes in stock pieces, heh in my old Jetta GL, I had
cut out 2x3" holes in the door for tweet plate. When I sold the car,
I removed the tweets, glued a piece of cardboard behind the hole and
re-glued the carpet to that cardboard..hehe, looked like a chop job, 
but I didn't care, it wasn't my car anymore. And if you mess up 
placing the tweet..you can always buy a new inner door skin,they
shouldn't be THAT much seeing any one will fit from any year close
to yours...or you can always just put a sticker over it =] we're just
talking about a small, 3mm hole.

Ryan
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