Client came by today with a monster set of DLS MS6A Component speakers he wanted to put in his Accord. After palying around with placement, it was obvious these badboys weren't going to fit normally. Custom Pods it was!!!!
Jason had an extra set of speaker grill covers, so that made this easier knowing that he can go back to stock easily if needed.
First thing was first....remove old UBER small Bose speaker.....it was cute.
Mocked up the stock grill, cut out what I needed, then cut a ring to fit the pod....after some trimming here and there, she fit like a dream. Tacked that into place and she got some Duraglas love. After that, i secured the pods from the backside, then stretched Grill Cloth over them and they recieved a final sealer coat of resin. Grinded that down, threw some matching carpet over them like their neighbors to the sides of them...and BOOM goes the dynamite.
Tweeters were simple enough....cut giant hole in door, place awesome basketball-esque tweeter in it's place.
He wanted these re-wired and ran to the rear for his 4 channel amp, so I'm not sure what these will sound like...but I KNOW they'll pound better than that cute little 3" Bose thought was a good attempt at Sound Quality.
This was a fun little project....can't wait to do more on this.
Got the box completed for Howard.
Turned out nice, put sound where we needed it, and allowed the center section to have easier access to the rear area (for the dogs).
All in all, I'm happy with how it came out......more importantly, the customer is happy....that's all the matters to me.
Had a client come in that was concerned about his stock sound system (amplified Focal speakers....if you call that stock)(owner didn't know that Focals were installed).
He's a true audiophile at heart....so Hybrid Audio Technologies is the first speaker that popped into my head. Wasn't sure about what model to go with, since it's a convertible; but the owner didn't want to install a subwoofer, so Clarus was the choice; they have a lower range of frequencies that they can play...so we squeezed the more amount of mid-bass out of them as we could.
Owner had pre-selected an amazing deck, the Alpine CDA-117....truely an audiophiles headunit of choice.....more audio tweaking options that most need.....just enough for this project.
The doors got a 3 layer sound deadening system (inner door skin, middle door skin, and inside door panel) to help the mid bass out as well as block some road noise.
All of this was pushed by the Arc Audio KS Mini, 2 channel amp....perfect size to fit under the seat where most other amps wouldn't dream of fitting.