hey i was wondering if anyone knew of a good 3 1/2" i know they are slim pickings now i had a set of alpines pack in the day they were great, but i dont think they make them any more i had a set of infinity reference series a few years ago but i didnt have my grills on and the surrounds went to pot so if anyone has some good thought that would be sweet.
ok, as a future project i though it would be cool to put a couple 3 1/2s in my dash some where. does anyone know how i would go about making the holes and possibly wiring them to a headunit?
if you need to have a 3.5" driver, go with a 3-way component set with a dome midrange. I'm not a big fan of 3 inch cone speakers. They can't really deliver the full range sound most of them promise, like computer speakers.
a good 3in driver will deliver a good midrange for you. It only needs to play from about 200hz to 4khz. A 3in driver that is built well will give good results and need less customizing to install.
my 4 inch midrange is great scuba steve, and its a cone midrange
i think this guy is looking for a coaxial set though.
Justblaze - you couldn't power more then 1 set on HU power. and you'd have all kinds of phase issues and just overall crap for SQ if you wired up a lot of 3.5 inch drivers.
I'm not saying 3.5" or 4" midrange speakers can't be great. All I'm saying is that you won't get even close to full range sound out of it, which is what some may expect, and which is why you'd also want a midbass speaker as well, and thats why i recommended going with the 3 way set.
full range no.. but put an eq to a 3.5 and it can sound great down to 100hz-200hz
if i had an eq to give those clarions some 'beef' into the voice they would be insane competition to a 5.25 as long as the 5.25 isnt in a box or pod
but thats a equalized 3.5 free air vs a non equalized 5.25 free air
5.25 already has enough cone area to play voices deep.. if you added an eq to the 5.25 the 3.5 speaker would put up a fight because most ppl want too much bass out of their 5.25's and that would distort the vocals and thats an advantage to the 3.5
sooo... if you got stock spots for some 3.5's and can use some extra detail in your music fill those spots in but just be sure to have an eq to make the voices sound deeper
this is the best example to 'voice matched'
if one speaker plays voices deeper then the other they wont blend together and the higher tone voices will stick out *bad*
