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gen 3 camry. trying to make up my mind on whether i should put splits up the front or just standard 6.5 inch 3 or 4 way speakers.

i was at the shop today and there is a world of difference between splits and standard speakers. i knew that already, i just wanted to remember (last set of splits i had was about 10 years ago).

my dilemma is: i don't want the interior to be affected by speakers. i don't want to see ugly tweeters sticking 2 inches out of my dash or mirror covers.

i've seen people mount them flush on the door trims, but is this a good place to have them? (acoustically)

is there somewhere else that i can put them that will be not so noticeable? any suggestions or pictures would be greatly appreciated. otherwise, i might just end up going for standard 6.5 4ways to replace the OE door speakers.

 

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Slightly at a tangent, do 3 or 4 way speakers actually sound any better than 2 ways anyway?

BTW, I'm also in Brisbane

hi mate. it depends on the brand. i like the pioneers 6.5 inch 4 way that i listened to this afternoon at autobarn. there was a very small difference between them and the pioneer 2 ways, but since i can get the 4 way model on ebay for just a little more than the 2 way at the shop, i figured i could go for the 4 ways. they're $200 at the shop and $140 on ebay (new. can't remember the model, i have it written down in my office downstairs).

a good set of splits will cost around $500, and i don't mind coughing up that kind of money for good sound, but i don't want them to wreck an interior that is not that pretty to look at in the first place. so my question remains.

 

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Well I liek yourself hate seeing tweeters sticking out. When I installed my flushmounts I put 'em in my door panels. Don't know what it does acoustically though. Mine could swivel so I just swiveled them up and back towards driver/passenger. Don't knwo if that helps acoustics lol.

Or you could find door panels that had the tweeters stock in them and swap them out. I guess that would be harder though.

thanks for the reply. do you have any pics? and what brand are they?

 

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Sorry no pics of the flush mount one, but I do have one of the stock tweeter location.

from memory, they had electric windows. mine has manual crank windows and i believe the door trims are totally different.

 

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thanks dna59, i'll look out for those door handles and see if they're interchangeable.

thanks for the pic RedPhoenix, it looks like there's gap between your tweeter and the hole you cut out. i guess i could also try that and i guess i could always get replacement covers easily from the wrecking yard if i stuffed mine up.

 

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Or you could just get the armrests with the tweeter spot built in? it's about 7-10 screws and that's it. I just picked up 2 door panels for $30 at the salvage yard.

does your car have manual crank windows?

 

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I didn't think they ever made crank windows in a Gen 3.

they did here

 

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just got back from the wrecking yard. they had lots of camrys but even the ones with the upgraded sound system don't seem to have those handle mounted tweeters like they do overseas. i'll keep looking around.

i got myself a dash clock though, which seems to have been an option here... go figure. hooked it up and it's all working ok

 

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as per my first post

i don't want to see ugly tweeters sticking 2 inches out of my dash or mirror covers.

but thanks anyway.

Placing the tweeters high up also brings up the soundstage. Your ears are more sensitive to high freqencies and can pick up on their location better then lower frequencies.

thanks mate, i guess what i'm trying to do is determine whether this is all worth the trouble or not. i have decided to go ahead and install tweeters on my A pillar panels, so i'll get some spare panels to play with and see what happens.

i was going to get a couple of 15 inch subs but someone outbid me on ebay, so i've decided to keep the 12 inch alpine type-s and today i took the time to tune the head unit properly (there are so many settings in this thing!!!) and i managed to get some amazing results (i guess you gotta put the effort into these things).

now, what would be a good set of component speakers to get for around $500USD ? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as i'm not up to date with the current stuff out there.