Coupe Speakers

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Grilles sound interesting, do you have a pic?

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I cut out the mesh between all the bars, like this, but neatly and across the whole grill, twice. you can imagine how long it took....
You can have them if you will put them to good use






Then I got hold of these - very rare!

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

I am not sure how far you want to go but i totally here you when you say you want clarity with presence.The best way to go IMHO. Clarity and presence ( lower frequencies) isn't boring with the right components can be truly Awesome. I am going to use these metal (drawn alloy) drivers.I will modify them as i don't like the grills or the gold anodizing. These monitors pictured below were developed from Monitors audios( British company)high end Studio range for the home that were and still are raved about all around the world back in the early 90's to early 2000's.






http://www.s2forum.com/forum/attachm...7&d=1400951504






If these are not available anymore another tip would be look at (B @ O) bang and olufsen.I heard these speakers in a big merc and the sound was Pure clarity with presence and like the monitors pictured above gave audiofile sound in a car more akin to a hi end home system.Untill you hear this or the bang and olufsen you just do not know what your missing.Seriously!

Back in 89/90 i was using alpine amps when they were at there best quality sound wise. They were superb but then a company turned up and claimed audiofile quality for cars and went by the name Genises.Worth looking out for. Typing this is winding me up as i have so much to do but want to do this now but heh it will have to wait.

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Do you mind if I refer to you as VDT?
thank you for the long reply, yes I know about Monitor, having long been interested in home stereo, having gone through a rack of Monitor Audio, Celestion and now Cambridge Audio speakers you have got me thinking, I have a set of Celestion F20's in the attic, I wonder what size the mids are? They went up there as the tweeters on 1 speaker died but they could be matched... maybe???

So have you got your 100mm mids from a home stereo speaker?

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Error, where did you find those covers? 1 word... WANT

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Do you mind if I refer to you as VDT?
thank you for the long reply, yes I know about Monitor, having long been interested in home stereo, having gone through a rack of Monitor Audio, Celestion and now Cambridge Audio speakers you have got me thinking, I have a set of Celestion F20's in the attic, I wonder what size the mids are? They went up there as the tweeters on 1 speaker died but they could be matched... maybe???

So have you got your 100mm mids from a home stereo speaker?

VD doesn't sound too good. Just call me Mark or Vorsprung

Yes you could utilise woofers and tweeters but they need to be matched with dedicated crossovers that suite the particular aperture in the car the speaker are being placed in.Beyond me but it's possible.

No. The 100mm alloy cone plus butyl rubber surround plus metal chassis mid/bass units were made and designed for car audio but as you can see has used all the technology of the original Home Monitor Audio studio series from the nineties.Hence me showing the Studio 15 stand mount home speaker next to the Gold cone of the car speaker.

The photos i added were taken months ago for my own reference purposes but i added them to your thread as i thought they were relevant to you and to give an idea of the truly awesome sound that can be achieve that is crystal clear with weight and definition added only as the recorded material intended.Mike oldfields album the songs of distant earth has a track called Crystal Clear.You tube it. The speakers i use for Home over the last 20 years are the Studio 15 pictured in piano black and also the Studio 20 se and if you familiar with the reviews or the sound they make then you can achieve a lot of that with the gold coned speaker i pictured or the Bang and Olufsen system.The big Mercedes i had the good fortune to do 500 miles in with it's B AND O System left me agasp, mesmerized.The sound quality blew me away for a "car" because it sounded so much like a high end home system. Food for thought indeed. Your stunning looking Ming Blue coupe would be a nice place to be with that quality.

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Focal-165A...item3cd7d4e5d2

What's thought on this package? use the 4" and tweeters with the crossovers upfront and the 6.5's outback and straight from the headunit.
Focal are good

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hertz-Ener...item27dfcc8209

or these?

anyone got any real experience of these 2 brands?

[Greg_S]

I havent used the focal mids, but used a focal sub in the past and was very pleased with it

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Not sure where i got this info, but i know i did, as it's rattling around in my head since someone else posted. I have heard or read good things about Focal.

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ok thanks guys, will do some more digging on other forums about the Focal's

[Henkjan]

I had a set of Focal coax in my typ85 coupe, and was rather pleased with them

[mdz]

Error, where did you find those covers? 1 word... WANT

Some B3 90s has them.

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do you know of a set?

[mdz]

I've just seen some of them and I'm also after a set.
They can be spotted quite easily - they're from metal and most likely will have some scratches on them.