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After being out of car audio for a couple years now, I got the bug again. I recently bought a 2004 Toyota 4Runner and have factory speakers all the way around. The only upgrade I have done is install an Alpine CDE-W265BT. The drivers door speaker is making noises, and there are some annoying rattles that need to be addressed. I figured while I try to find the annoying rattles and replace the blown speaker, I will do some proper deadening and install a new front stage. This system will be for casual listening. No competitions and I don't care a tone about getting really loud. Sound quality ismy number one priority. So here's what I have and my initial ideas. I have a Kenwood Excelon X801-5 5 channel amp. My plan is to purchase a MiniDSP 2x4 and use the 4 channel section of the amplifier to run the front stage active. I plan to use deck processing to do what I need to with the subwoofer channel. I have a set of JL Audio 8w3v3 subwoofers in a JL Microsub enclosure or I could use a single recently reconed 12" RE Audio SE. I'd prefer to use the JL Audio Microsub solution as it sacrifices less space, and I don't have to build an enclosure. Rear channels will remain factory, run off of deck power and be barely used under normal listening. This just leaves speakers to be used in my front doors. Woofers will stay in the factory location, and I will fab some adaptors to accomodate a 6.5" woofer. Woofers are in lower door panels towards the front of the door. Pretty standard. I would prefer to use factory tweeter locations. Tweeter locations are high on the doors towards the front of the doors. The aren't ideal, but I think if I find some tweeters with decent off axis response, I can make them work. So mainly, I am looking for suggestions for 6.5" woofers and tweeters. I have started browsing Parts Express, and will link a few possibilities. I am open to any suggestions and constructive criticism. The Peerless Woofer looked like it could be a good contender. Higher sensitivity than the other Peerless drivers in the price range and looks to have good off axis FR. https://www.parts-express.com/peerless-by-tymphany-830875-6-1-2-nomex-cone-hds-woofer--264-1092 I also have a set of Aura NS6-255-8A woofers. Those are set aside for a different project, but I could potentially use for this. They look like they would be suitable as well. Tweeters have a few good options. The first is a Dayton Audio Model. Has good off axis FR and off axis FR is very similar to on axis response. https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-dc28ft-8-1-1-8-silk-dome-truncated-tweeter--275-076 There is a peerloss options. It will require some custom mounting, but doable. Again has good Off axis response, but looks to roll off in the HF a little steeper than the Dayton. Not a huge concern as I will probably roll off the high end slightly. https://www.parts-express.com/peerless-by-tymphany-d27tg35-06-1-silk-dome-tweeter--264-1022 I won't be doing the install until spring so I have lots of time to decide what I want to use. Any help is appreciated and want to say thanks in advance!

Jared designed my arm piece.

You could have cancellation issues, but you will only be able to find this out via measurements. The issue here is once you load the enclosure and driver into the vehicle, the cabin becomes another air spring on the driver. When you open a window or door, the pressure is reduced or relieved and the driver can move further, which means more air is excited which means more boom boom. Some systems are just so ridiculous, that they overcome this affect with sheer power. It's akin to overcoming speed limited drag by increasing power.

Hey Jared snapped some pictures today for ya..Remember my camera on my phone is garbage so probably not the best quality..Was in the area earlier..

My astro had no difference with door open or door closed. The 8 18 icons in the 4th order. Thing was a freak of nature.

Just a suggestion here, but there seems to be some great deals on the SSA gear in the store. Check them out.

One topic, one thread...merged. Welcome to SSA, and as you can tell, you'll get plenty of responses, quickly. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:headbang:

Yea fi is good to . Just as ssa. I was just sayin ssa over sundown forsure. . Cant really go wrong with ssa or fi.

Forsure should look into an ssa sub. I would never look at a sundown sub if ssa was an option

Go for an ssa sub. They all have great reviews. I can vouch for the evils seeing how I have em and love em. Plus it’ll help support the community. And Nd by proper sentences, you should use proper punctuation marks. It’ll help distinguish when a sentence stops and what not.

I believe they wrote a country song about something like this...

Welcome! I too had the exact same problem with my 15” zv5. It would kill the lows. But upper bass sucked. Young jeezy - put on, that first note was garbage. But the following notes were great. I had a box with a sonotube port, 8”. So I made the port shorter to raise the tuning. And it helped but not much. I figured this was the best of the best. But was sadly let down. It’s all dependent on what you’re after. If you’re only into lows and demos and stuff then yes this sub is bad ass. But to listen to a variety of music, this sub not so much. Long story short, I sold it within a month of owning it and pulled the trigger and brought 2 ssa evil 12S. Loved them. And in the process, earned a customer.