My T6 is a Kombi and I want rear speakers (well I have rear speakers but not happy with where they are fitted).
What are the options for rear speaker placement?
I currently have Alpine 6x9s mounted on a homemade board that clamps round the base of the 3 seater bench. This has a rear board too to make a rudimentary speaker ‘enclosure’.
I get decent all round sound from the 6x9s and have the Alpine T6 front door speakers - I grew up with cars in the 90s and I had 6x9s in the rear parcel shelf of nearly every car I had, but I learnt that you needed a decent volume of air behind them to make them have decent bass hence the current arrangement.
But this is a real pain when I want to move the bench seat or to fold it forward etc. - effectively have to remove the boards, disconnect the speakers and remove leaving me with no rear speakers when the bench is folded/removed.
So I would like some alternative rear speaker placement that doesn’t interfere with the seat.
Q. I don’t understand how these rear pods allows the speakers to have any volume of air behind them to produce decent mid-bass - how do these work/sound?
Q. What do these sound like as they technically have abit more air behind them but the carpeted panels in my van are only very thin plywood so would probably resonate a fair bit?
Which leads me to these - yes, they are subwoofer enclosures (you can get an L and an R) but I have seen some 25cm Pioneer speakers that would fit in the holes and there should be a decent amount of air volume inside. They also leave the load area and underside of the bench seat free of obstruction. Anyone fitted these enclosures? How do they fix in place?
Any other suggestions please?
What are the options for rear speaker placement?
I currently have Alpine 6x9s mounted on a homemade board that clamps round the base of the 3 seater bench. This has a rear board too to make a rudimentary speaker ‘enclosure’.
I get decent all round sound from the 6x9s and have the Alpine T6 front door speakers - I grew up with cars in the 90s and I had 6x9s in the rear parcel shelf of nearly every car I had, but I learnt that you needed a decent volume of air behind them to make them have decent bass hence the current arrangement.
But this is a real pain when I want to move the bench seat or to fold it forward etc. - effectively have to remove the boards, disconnect the speakers and remove leaving me with no rear speakers when the bench is folded/removed.
So I would like some alternative rear speaker placement that doesn’t interfere with the seat.
Q. I don’t understand how these rear pods allows the speakers to have any volume of air behind them to produce decent mid-bass - how do these work/sound?
Q. What do these sound like as they technically have abit more air behind them but the carpeted panels in my van are only very thin plywood so would probably resonate a fair bit?
Which leads me to these - yes, they are subwoofer enclosures (you can get an L and an R) but I have seen some 25cm Pioneer speakers that would fit in the holes and there should be a decent amount of air volume inside. They also leave the load area and underside of the bench seat free of obstruction. Anyone fitted these enclosures? How do they fix in place?
Any other suggestions please?
