On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 at 19:58 GMT, Doobie-Doo wrote:

Wow! That's great! That clears up so many questions. What
****es me off is that I spent most of yesterday trying to learn
this stuff, but there's no good websites that explain this at a
basic level. Thanks, I appreciate this.

I found these two sites to have a lot of useful info:

http://www.teamrocs.com/
http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/caraudio.htm

I have links to a number of manufactures on my web site:

http://www.miltonstreet.com/~carleton/links.html

So I guess I have to figure out what I can put in my vehicle. I
have a 97 neon (I know..I know...) and I'm not sure what I can fit
in the doors and dash.

Goto http://www.crutchfield.com they will allow you to select your
car and then they will show you the stereo (head unit), and speakers
that fit your car.

In the dash, I'm sure there are 2 tweeters (I can see the little
grills, but no idea how to remove the dash), and I don't know
what's in the door.

Well, there might not be tweeters there. There is a gill on both my
dash and in the windshield piller. I thought the tweeter was in the
piller, but it is also in the dash. The grill on the piller is for
the other system VW puts in the New Beetle that only has a 2-way
system in it.

If your order the stuff from Crutchfile, they will send you the
howto info on how to install everything. Go check it out on their
web site, very cool in my opinion.

So I'm thinking that I should use 2 tweeters in the dash, then two
subs in the doors (if they fit). Does that sound right? or
should I have a midrange up front?

Your have four different ranges of speakers, normally. In order of
lowest to highest:

sub woofer
woofer
mid-range
tweeter

It is VERY common to have systems that only has woofers and
tweeters. It is sort of complicated why I am going with a 3-way
system, but the bottoml line is because that is what is currently
there. There is no need to spend the money, 2-way systems sound
very good!

I have room for two speakers in the back window, so I'll probably
put two mids there. Would that sound good?

I would put a full range speakers in the back, that has both the
woofer and tweeter built into one unit.

I'll probably get an amp then, just a 4 channel for the 2 drivers
and 2 subs. I can probably run the tweeters off the deck to avoid
buying another amp. I have no idea if this sounds idiotic. I'm
just going off the information that I've learned in the last day.

The woofer/tweeter combo will come with the crossover so one amp
will power both that woofer and tweeter. All you will need is one 4
channel amp: Front two components (tweeter/woofer) and back two
full range.

Sam