Would you remove these speakers???

[Granatelli]

OK, first, let me say hello and thanks in advance for any advice. I used to be into car audio about 14 years ago. Let's see if the old adage is still true.

If you had a 4-door car with speakers in each door, a center channel in the center of the dash and two tweeters up in the front of the dash, would you remove the 2 speakers in the back doors? It is my opinion they will mess up the soundstage. I am trying to create the best soundstage for the driver and may install speakers in the front kick panels of the car, to try to equalize the sound path to my ears.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Andy

[JBONDOx]

keep them for rear fill... like fade all the way to front then back off a bit... what about rear passengers?

[Granatelli]

I rarely have rear passengers. I was always told that rear fill "clouds" the soundstage.

That made sense to me, since the best concerts and in-home sound systems have 2 speakers and maybe a sub. If you're equi-distance from each speaker, everything sounds awesome.

Besides surround sound systems for movies, you don't have any speakers active in the back of you.

[Granatelli]

Site duplicated my response.

[Dukk]

^ True but concert halls and decent listening rooms do have relevant reflected rear information that adds to the experience. If you are attempting to duplicate these environments, you may want to keep those speakers.

Not worth the effort to remove them though, just fade them away if you don't like it.

[Notorious97200]

if you already have them, keep them!
You may run them off the head unit, and not off any amplifier.
But I think you're right : you don't really need them, even if you have passengers. With a good install for your front soundstage, backseat passengers should be fine.

[Granatelli]

thanks... I gotta improve this sound stage and the db level of this system.

I'm thinking kick panels.

[Granatelli]

By the way, Dukk, I once listened to a testing room with $500,000 worth of equipment and they spent about $10,000 to install this sound absorbing material on the walls... they wanted to remove all reflections.

[GlasSman]

By the way, Dukk, I once listened to a testing room with $500,000 worth of equipment and they spent about $10,000 to install this sound absorbing material on the walls... they wanted to remove all reflections.

Thats because they wanted the lessen the rooms influence on the front speakers.

It's like comparing apples to bulldozers.