Joe Garza wrote:
<<im an expert on speakers.. i would suggest putting a component set in
your rear deck..>>
For an expert on speakers, you are exactly wrong. This is exactly what
he does not want to do b/c it will screw with his imaging. Putting this
type of sound into the rear deck of a car is not what is needed.
Ambient sound is all that is needed from the rear of a vehicle. To put
it into a more "lay-man" termination: Supportive sound.
To get a true accostical point of view of the sound of an orchestra,
goto an opera. How many instruments are behind the audience? NONE.
Home theater systems are designed with the mids and highs in front of
the audience and the sub behind the couch, chair, etc. This is done b/c
AMBIENT sound is provided by the subwoofer and all other sound is
provided by the rest. The same is true with a car.
Ideally, the subs, mids, and highs are in the front of the listener,
with little-to-no sound behind the listener's ears.
Because of the amount of room within the spacing of a vehicle, rear
speakers are needed to provide an "echo" effect within the car. This
means that at least a little sound is needed, within the vehicle, to be
behind the listener to provide a "cloaked" appearance of sound. This is
done to "fool" the brain into thinking that it is within the confines of
an auditorium and not a car. You are not supposed to be able to hear the
music behind you, but only to BELIEVE that the music is in front of you
as if you were listening to it live on stage.
Car designers only provide sound to their cars. If acoustics were an
important part of their design, the front of a vehicle would come with
at least 6 speakers, while the rear would come with 3 (2 ambient
speakers and 1 sub). This is why designers like Q-Logic make so much
money. They provide a means by which ppl can correct the acoustical
deficiencies of a car by replacing the location of the stock speakers.
I would guess that designers of cars do not place them where they should
be for "leg room" purposes, otherwise the inside of cars would be much
wider, as "kick-panel" placement is much more acoustically correct.
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