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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: BigSi on November 09, 2007, 18:08:32
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Where and how can I mount a pair of speakers in the truck cab? I think somebody here has a pair mounted under the dash on both side which I quite like.
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Trouble with having speakers mounted under the dash is that they point straight at your knee (and your passenger knee).......the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired - although in the 07 Defender they've put tweeters up on the top of the dash, this helps a lot with drawing the sound 'up' into the cab. You could look into mounting speakers in the doors - but you'd need to either purchase or build a mounting pod for them (to space them away from the glass) as there is no space behind the door card.
Alternatively, what about mounting some high up at the back of the cab - the o/s would point right at your right ear though !
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i've got a pair behind me ears and the a pair behind the kids in the headling of the DC..then a another pair of House Speakers behind the rear seats....
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My old 110 Hard-Top had speakers let into the head-lining just above the seat-belt mounts in the B-posts.
The sound was top-notch, & more to the point didn't need 'mega-volume' to be heard, hence was clear & undistorted, unlike the standard mounting position (pointing at your knees)
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ive got some home hi fi speakers between the seats! lol. at BBQs and stuff i get them out and stick em on the bonett.
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Mine has some Pioneer round ones at about 6" in the dash, pointing at my knees, which give a a little bass, and its got 4" ones in the headlining near my ears, which give treble.
All in all it sounds ok. Ive put the bias on the 'knee' ones via the head unit, so if you turn it up it does not blast your ear out..
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My 110 has some good quality 6" units in the under dash on spacer rings as they're too deep as they come to fit, with 2 rear shelf pods just behind the roll cage in the back hung from the roof, sounds OK, but as others have said some add-on tweeters on the dash top make quite a difference to the overall sound. If I could afford a set I'd fit Bose 101's in the back to replace the shelf pod's as we had in a company rangie in the 80's....
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In my 110 csw i'm planning on putting them on the dog guard some how.Still working it out but i built the boxes and have just carpeted them this week end.Defenders don't seem to be very speaker friendly.