On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:00:48 -0700, Sanitarium
wrote:

Yeah I HATE how toyota does this on their late 80's cars. My dads 89 4
runner has 4" mids that point down to the floor (!!!) We got around
this by flush mounting polk separates high up on the doors. You might
want to look into a kick panel mounted 2-way component set, and
cross-fire the speakers. Q-logic makes fiberglass enclosures for a lot
of different cars.

I looked at many web sites for suitable kick panels for may car and
found none. I was told I will need to buy custom kick panels but that
will cost too much money.

Perhaps two separate tweeters are what I need. I know some tweeters
come with surface mount kits but I'm not sure if they can be mounted
anywhere. I imagine holes still need to be drilled to pull the wires
though that pretty much limited the possible locations to mount
tweeters.

Dont those cars have large storage bins in the center console, beneath
the head unit? You could easily mount a center channel speaker there,
and cover it with grill fabric.

The extra space in the center console was left over from the original
Toyota radio/casette receiver which took up the space of two regular
sized head units. I don't think I can fit a decent sized speaker
there though.


I'm willing to bet that a new CD head will not dramatically improve your
soundstage.... Its your front speakers blasting into your ankles thats
the root cause.

Remember... as wonderful as EQs are they can NOT overcome the laws of
physics. All the treble boost in the world will not be able to
compensate for poorly aligned speakers.

I do not expect miracles from higher treble level. However, I have
made a few CD-ROMs containing MP3s that have increased high frequency
sound. (I used a sound editor to increase 18khz ~ 19khz sound level
of wave files by about 4db before compressing them to MP3s). The
result was a noticeable, but not great, improvement in the front
speaker output. That is reason why I think a better head unit may
improve the sound a little bit.

Jason