I dropped in my JL Audio 3.5” speakers in the dash corners this weekend. That is a 1 out of 5 difficulty project and can easily be done in under an hour.
After I’d gotten one speaker in, I decided to pick up my phone and film the second speaker install with some commentary. Maybe this will be useful to anyone else doing this install.
There is nothing challenging about this install at all. For $145 plus an hour of time, it’s a no-brainer upgrade. I immediately noticed better midrange and more descriptive highs. The midrange is what makes the sound pop through the road noise. There is a different balance between the dash speakers and the [still OEM] front door speakers now, with the sound from the front soundstage being markedly more assertive. Probably a combination of the JL Audio speakers being a bit more efficient and having a more midrange-forward sound.
I’ll be installing the 6x9s in the front doors next. Not planning to change the speakers in the rear doors; to my ears those are mainly just creating filler sound from the back.
It would be nice to add some more amp power as the amps in these are a little wimpy. That’s a whole different level of project from a complexity and cost standpoint and beyond my interest at this point.
After I’d gotten one speaker in, I decided to pick up my phone and film the second speaker install with some commentary. Maybe this will be useful to anyone else doing this install.
There is nothing challenging about this install at all. For $145 plus an hour of time, it’s a no-brainer upgrade. I immediately noticed better midrange and more descriptive highs. The midrange is what makes the sound pop through the road noise. There is a different balance between the dash speakers and the [still OEM] front door speakers now, with the sound from the front soundstage being markedly more assertive. Probably a combination of the JL Audio speakers being a bit more efficient and having a more midrange-forward sound.
I’ll be installing the 6x9s in the front doors next. Not planning to change the speakers in the rear doors; to my ears those are mainly just creating filler sound from the back.
It would be nice to add some more amp power as the amps in these are a little wimpy. That’s a whole different level of project from a complexity and cost standpoint and beyond my interest at this point.
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