Speaker upgrade - Infinity

Right, I've just installed six infinity speakers in the c along with a minor dose of soundproofing.

These were four 6.5" two way speakers in the lower doors plus two tweeters in the upper front doors. I used the infinity-supplied low cut crossovers.

Notes to pass on-

It was surprisingly easy to cut the factory tweeters off of the brackets. I used ordinary epoxy to attach the new tweeters to the old bracket strips.

I put two kinds of damping material in. Some of it was ordinary dynamat, just to add mass around the speaker mount area and a few leftover triangles on the outer door skin to add mass and break up resonance. I also put in a few pieces of a softer mat, so there are a couple of different densities behind the speakers.

The goal was just to improve the sound- not to perfect it. It's an economy car, we don't want to spend too much on the project or add a lot of weight.

So far so good, we can get more volume without distortion than before. The factory speakers were comical. Pretty sure I have headphones with bigger magnets.

These are all being driven by the Sony head unit I installed back in May.

I think I added about 7lbs to the car between the upgraded speakers and the butyl mats.

 

I don't know what infinity makes for the living room today. I am reasonably up-to-date on industrial & studio audio but hopelessly out-of-date with audiophile, consumer and mobile audio.

That said, the new speakers do sound considerably better than the factory ones, and they weren't expensive. There's a nice airy feeling for the stereo effect; the bonus tweeters up in the door tops are working extremely well. Not much improvement in bass level though the lows are far clearer and tighter than before. I would need at least an underseat sub to really balance the low end, but we decided to do this one with a firmer budget both dollarwise and for interior storage.

I'll have to look to see if I shot any share-worthy pictures. Of course, part of the point was an undetectable installation, so it's not as if the car looks any different now.

Added: one shot of the door disassembled with soundproofing & new speaker installed. Tweeter and bracket were off the car for work at that time.

 

@frenzee looks like they're a Harman property now, so... none of that wonderfulness anymore.

I listen on nice stuff at work and I'm usually okay to leave it there.