I have just ordered some Infinity REF6510CS Components for upfront in the Mondeo.
I didn't want to spend much more than about £80-£100 and having heard these in a Mondeo they sounded much better than Alpine 171A (which I also listened to in a Mondeo). I bought these for £60 delivered from ebay, brand new, boxed etc.
My current speakers are pretty poor.
Upfront I have 2 x Sony 17cm somethings which I just bought as a stop gap and then never really got round to replacing them (until now).
In the rear are the two standard Ford speakers but they start distorting quite badly at a medium volume and are known to be rubbish.
I use adaptors with the Sony speakers as Ford speakers are weird size, 6x8/5x7 IIRC. I picked them up from Halfords and they have always seemed a little flimsy, should I make my own from MDF, will it improve sound at all?
Now I have three main questions:
Where is the best place to mount the tweeter, should I just play around with height and see how I prefer it?
Most Mondeo owners mount them on the inner wing mirror cowl but I have seen and heard these Infinity's with the tweeter mounted in the door around 1/2 way up, between the mid-range speaker and top of door. He said he found they sounded best there. I have seen some cars with the tweeter on the A pillar cowl too?
Secondly, what should I do regarding the rear speakers?
Thirdly, there are some settings on my headunit (Alpine 9851R) I don't quite follow. I guess they are the high pass and low pass filters but changing them doesn't seem to do a lot? Most of the current Alpines have similar interface so can somebody explain what these settings do and what are ideal/optimal settings?
Oh I also have a sub, it's a JBL unit, 290W RMS with a pretty well matched JBL amp which is 300W RMS in bridged config. Won't set the world on fire and I don't have it cranked right up, just add's a bit of depth to the music.
Oh, as a side not I found out why my radio reception is so poor, the connection between the aerial and aerial cable is badly corroded which means I will need to buy a new aerial, aerial base and cable. Hopefully these will be cheap from Ford
Any idea on cost?
Thanks,
Chris
I didn't want to spend much more than about £80-£100 and having heard these in a Mondeo they sounded much better than Alpine 171A (which I also listened to in a Mondeo). I bought these for £60 delivered from ebay, brand new, boxed etc.
My current speakers are pretty poor.
Upfront I have 2 x Sony 17cm somethings which I just bought as a stop gap and then never really got round to replacing them (until now).
In the rear are the two standard Ford speakers but they start distorting quite badly at a medium volume and are known to be rubbish.
I use adaptors with the Sony speakers as Ford speakers are weird size, 6x8/5x7 IIRC. I picked them up from Halfords and they have always seemed a little flimsy, should I make my own from MDF, will it improve sound at all?
Now I have three main questions:
Where is the best place to mount the tweeter, should I just play around with height and see how I prefer it?
Most Mondeo owners mount them on the inner wing mirror cowl but I have seen and heard these Infinity's with the tweeter mounted in the door around 1/2 way up, between the mid-range speaker and top of door. He said he found they sounded best there. I have seen some cars with the tweeter on the A pillar cowl too?
Secondly, what should I do regarding the rear speakers?
Thirdly, there are some settings on my headunit (Alpine 9851R) I don't quite follow. I guess they are the high pass and low pass filters but changing them doesn't seem to do a lot? Most of the current Alpines have similar interface so can somebody explain what these settings do and what are ideal/optimal settings?
Oh I also have a sub, it's a JBL unit, 290W RMS with a pretty well matched JBL amp which is 300W RMS in bridged config. Won't set the world on fire and I don't have it cranked right up, just add's a bit of depth to the music.
Oh, as a side not I found out why my radio reception is so poor, the connection between the aerial and aerial cable is badly corroded which means I will need to buy a new aerial, aerial base and cable. Hopefully these will be cheap from Ford
Any idea on cost?Thanks,
Chris
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