Installed my Next FLS 6 6.5" shallow mount components today. I decided to install the FLS's rather than the "regular" ALS comps because I have a fetish for shallow-mount designs and seeing how they perform Only have about 30 minutes with them so far.....put them through some tracks I'm familiar with and tossed in my IASCA test disk for a few tracks.

Installed them in my doors; mid ran infinite baffle, tweeter in the stock location about 6" down from the sail-panel. Powered through the passives off of two channels of my Coustic DR-514 (50w RMS per side). HU is an Eclipse 8053. Low end is taken care of by a 12" Rl-p.

First impressions: Tonality is pretty darn good. Midrange was smooth, pretty accurate and, for the most part, on par with my Coustic DR 306P's I was running previously. Midbass, while lacking, was tight and dead on. Not nearly as impactful as I prefer, but pleasant sounding in it's own right. Would be nice if they had more midbass output though. They handled a crossover point of 63hz @ 12db/oct very well mechanically (had the volume up to 70 out of 80 and they didn't bottom out [or "top out" I guess you would call it, since the magnet is in front of the cone ]). Though midbass did clear up a TON when I switched the xover to 80hz @ 18db. So, this is where I left 'er set.

Tweeter; detailed, but slightly harsh and had hints of sibilance and poor decay. Things like cymbal crashes had good initial tonality and impact (on the harsh side, but not bad).....but seemed to have very slow decay. Though, I have a feeling some of this is due to install location. They are fairly on-axis just below the sail panel. Far from ideal.....if installed more off-axis and, say, down in kicks, I think a lot of the problems will be far less apparent.

Overall not bad. Have their flaws; midbass output is lacking and the tweeter seems to have a few issues (could be install related though).....but I'd put them up against most $200-$250 sets on the market and feel they would compete well with them. And, considering I paid less than 1/5 of that price, I'd say it's an excellent value for the money

Midbass issues....clay the bishes.

Seems like a great set of components for a very very nice price

wow, nice review, good to hear that they faired well for their price,

have install the other set to pick up the mid-bass, hehe

I knew that was gonna happen. I was playing around with a small enclosure the other day it really work the driver up. If I could find a way to enclose them in my old man's door, I would, but there's no go on that one.

Squeak: What ever happened to your old 10" "midbass" drivers?

Squeak: What ever happened to your old 10" "midbass" drivers?

Well...that's the reason I put these Next comps in

Now that I have a "regular" component set in, I can take my horns out and work on actually installing them properly without having to worry about having them back in at the end of each day. So, next on the to-do list is properly install my horns, get my sub box finished (going in a "special" location ), then it'll be time to start the doors

And, to be quite honest with you.....I've been putting it off because it is going to be mountains of work, and I'm quite the procrastinator....

And about the midbass problem with the Next's; yeah, I know I could do some things to correct it....but being as these are just temporary, I'm not going to be putting that much work into them When I install some in the van (probably won't be till next summer) I'll put more effort into correcting the midbass.

for the money, that is not bad at all