Re: More Stereo questions!

[Wallace White <wallace@remdesign.com>]

G. Benedikt Rochow wrote:
> 
> Considering the little (6" ?) speaker cutouts/grilles
> in the hat shelf of an '84 5kS, I'm thinking about mounting
> the speaker assembly made for a previous car at some distance below
> that board, leaving the grilles in place and cutting no additional
> holes. So there would be a ca. 7-8" bass and smaller mid and
> tweeter speakers one each side, mounted in a 2 cm thick sheet of wood,
> with a 3-way freq. divider. IIRC, the basses are towards the middle,
> while the others are towards the ends of the board, and partially
> overlapping the Audi grilles.

Will you be able to seal off this mounting plate, so that waves from the
front of the drivers don't cancel out those from the back of the
drivers? Other than that, there's just the issue of losing high
frequency sound that doesn't have a straight shot out of that hole--but
not if the tweeters line up right.

- Wallace 
  '87 5kcstq 150k