[s-cars] Stereo questions

[Robin Stoddard]

I am in the planning stages as well for my car with an ETA of about 1
year from now.  As for subs in my other car, I have two 8" subs with 1"
tweeters mounted in the rear deck (MB Quart) and one 10" Soundstream
SS10 mounted in the trunk (ported box).  This provides a very clean well
rounded sound (or shall I say thump from the subs).  The front speakers
are also MB Quarts, with 5 1/4" in the front doors and 3/4" tweeters
mounted in the dash using the windshield to reflect the sound.

However, I am not considering going to this extreme in the Audi as it
required a lot of hours, wire, custom boxes and some major cutting into
the interior metalwork.

The system that I have in mind for the Audi, is to replace the Bose
speakers (and deck) with some Focal's
(http://www.focal.tm.fr/gb_index.htm) and put in a SS10 sub from
Soundstream (ported box).  The end result of a system like this is not
that of a kiddy thumper where there is nothing but droning bass that can
be felt from two blocks away; but more of a quiet on the outside and
excellent sound on the inside (wit bass).  As for a deck to run the
whole setup, I have not found one that I like.  I want something that is
not to far away from what I have now in the Bose system.

Cheers
Robin

96 S6

TM wrote:

>With all of the listers out there, I'm sure some of you have
>installed a serious stereo in your cars, no?
>
>I'd like to know what you all have done in terms subwoofers.
>
>I'm looking at getting a dual voice coil 10" sub in a sealed
>enclosure, each coil being fed 160W and have only to select the
>sub and the installer.
>
>One shop is recommending a JL 10W3, sounds like a decent selection
>to me, w/ custom enclosure will run me about $375.
>
>Any thoughts on this? I'm going w/ a 10" due to space limitations
>and the fact that I don't want the sub to take up too much trunk space.
>Will probably mount the sub between the gas tank and the rear deck,
>up against the rear seat bulkhead. I just haven't figured out how to
>mount it just yet.
>
>Taka
>
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