FD Dash Speaker Size?

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Jan 25, 2006 | 05:35 AM

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I removed the dash speaker and you can tell a difference. It actually does aid with the imaging. Even when I added an old 1979 boombox speaker I had laying around, I could tell a difference.

Jan 25, 2006 | 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DamonB

^ The center channel amp in the FD sums the speaker level outputs of the left and right channels together to get a mono signal. To make it continue to function in any aftermarket system all you have to do is connect the speaker wires of the left and right speakers back to the factory harness in the center console. The center channel amp will once again sum these signals and play them through the center speaker.

Would this kill the imaging? I think sound imaging would be better without merging L&R channel together and putting it as center channel.

But what do I know?

Jan 25, 2006 | 03:03 PM

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Would this kill the imaging? I think sound imaging would be better without merging L&R channel together and putting it as center channel.

But what do I know?

Once I went to component speakers with real tweeters mounted in a better than stock location I had no reason to keep the center channel. I tried it with and without the center channel and it was better without.

With stock or co-axial speakers in the stock location OTOH I think it sounds better if the center channel is used.