Hi-Fi speaker placement?

The tweeters should be up higher, pointed more directly to your ear. Place them either higher up on your front car doors or place them above your dash.

Mid-woofers can be placed in the door, if you have a 4 door car I'd put on mid-woofer in each door.

Best I can do, setting up car speakers is a little tricky.

Well normally I would recommend that you only use two speakers as stereo is two channel and to get the best imaging two speakers will normally provide the best sound.

Most people don't know that music can image not only between the speakers but can also with good speaker placement can give you the illusion of depth in a recording, so it gives you a more realistic perspective of live music.

So with the setup your trying to achieve its not going to give you the best stereo imaging. Also when using multiple speakers your going to have a hard time to get a good tonal balance as you will get different responce curves from each speaker and the combination will be very difficult if not impossible to get the overall sound right.

The first thing that good speaker placement will give you is good tonal balance and overall bass responce. Speaker proximity to room walls will effect the bass responce and overall frequency responce, so this is critical to get good sound.

You will also get different results when placing speakers on a long wall verse's short wall.

You may want to consider doing a surround music setup where you setup the main left and right speakers to get the best sound for stereo, and then setup the rest of the speakers to give a good surround effect, when you use a simulated or surround music cd. If you place the main speakers right to get the best sound, then it will be easier to place the rest of the speakers to complement the mains.

Speaker placement is the single most important aspect in getting good sound, it is both an art and science and takes patience and knowledge to do it right.

Kevin

40 years high end audio video specialist