[DaveN]

It's the time of year I hate the most; insurance has lapsed and the car is now being diss-assembled for 6 months of "what can I change and replace" on jack stands.
I have a 6 speaker system with the addition of a cubby sub (last years winter casualty). This year I was looking the the missing door speakers that the 10 speakers option adds. Thought it would be easy to add a 3" driver since Porsche left a nice spot to mount it - complete with drilled holes. Question is where to find a 3" driver? I just want to fill in a little of the mid and it needs to be 8 ohms. I do not want to alter the impeadance of the Infinity's 4 ohms too much so as not to mess up the crossover. I'll end up with 2.7 ohms which I can compensate via my deck - the same one flash is selling which has active crossovers and 11 bands of eq!

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[PorscheDude]

Is your crossover a 3 way?

Check BSW, they make BMW speaker packages. I think they have 3".

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[flash]

do the treatment to the doors and such and you may not need to change anything - you would be amazed at how good the stock stuff can sound!

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[DaveN]

Did all the treatment last year, doors, all the rear and inside the cubbies. It all sounds fine but the main speaker fires into your hip where I don't keep my ears (not on this planet anyway [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img] I figured a small midrange a little farther forward might help move the sound better.

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[flash]

it will if you get the crossover right - 3 way systems are very hard to tune though - i am wrestling with the same issue right now - still on the fence about it

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[flash]

p.s. - rather than get complicated with 3 way speakers, you could always just put the 5" up where there the 3" would be

i've been thinking about putting in the 993 flip up armrests, and moving those speakers

since i have a cab, i could easily build an enclosure inside the door around the 5" and really get some great sound out of it

the only reason i have not yet done it is that there is no going back once i've cut into the panels

with the 3sixty2 i can tune the rear speakers differently than the fronts, so i am able to move the sound field around a lot, and don't have the same amount of missing mids that i would have without that ability, but i still would like to move some of them up front - because of the crossover point and location of the lower front speakers, 800 - 1.6k is dicey, and since that is where the vocals live, it's hard to tune for different road speeds

maybe a blank S2 panel will be the easiest answer - not sure yet

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[DaveN]

I had not considered moving the 5". That might be a bit of an undertaking since that area is smaller. I would have to learn (invent?) the art of ABS welding to an decent job of that.

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