home speakers in your car

[neon_ert3]

im no expert but i do most of all my own audio work. well the guy accross the street said he had some speakers and a head unit that he wanted to put in his jeep. i get over there and he has an old jensen HU and 4 house speakers . he wants me to hang them up like u would on your walls. oh yeah and hook up this roadhouse subwoofer, i think its called roadhouse ... some walmart shit!

dont house speakers run at a higher resistance then car? and i dont think his panels will support the weight of the house speakers, they got a pretty nice weight to them. lemme hear some input from you guys.

[90_ACCORD]

my friend had it done in a truck of his and my boss had it done in one of his work trucks.

I dont know if it was a straight hook up but i know it can be done.

[drpepper14]

ever been to madisound.com??

A lot of those speakers are intended for home use and are actually used in high-end car audio installs for sound quality purposes

I actually had a really nice 2-way component setup that I ran actively in my last integra that I purchased from that site. The tweeter and midbass were both intended for home audio use, and it was one of the nicest setups i've installed/heard. period.

His speakers may not be that high quality, but yes, home audio speakers can be used in a car

[neon_ert3]

i hooked one of the house speaker up yesterday and they sound like total shit!

i finally talked his cheap ass into gettin some regular door speakers.

[lovinmydodge]

they probably sounded like crap because you hooked them up wrong. People who design and build sound quality comp rides often use home audio speakers. because they have a higher db/meter ratio as well as the fact that the speakers are designed in mind with an active xover to be run full time to each speaker allowing a specific range of freq to reach the speakers. You just hooked them to the hu didn't you. .... sigh... after reading the first like 15 posts it seems that very few ppl on this site that chime in on the car audio have very limited knowledge...

[sina518]

they probably sounded like crap because you hooked them up wrong. People who design and build sound quality comp rides often use home audio speakers. because they have a higher db/meter ratio as well as the fact that the speakers are designed in mind with an active xover to be run full time to each speaker allowing a specific range of freq to reach the speakers. You just hooked them to the hu didn't you. .... sigh... after reading the first like 15 posts it seems that very few ppl on this site that chime in on the car audio have very limited knowledge...

your kidding right? show me a SQ car with home audio in it.

[Member31410]

they probably sounded like crap because you hooked them up wrong. People who design and build sound quality comp rides often use home audio speakers. because they have a higher db/meter ratio as well as the fact that the speakers are designed in mind with an active xover to be run full time to each speaker allowing a specific range of freq to reach the speakers. You just hooked them to the hu didn't you. .... sigh... after reading the first like 15 posts it seems that very few ppl on this site that chime in on the car audio have very limited knowledge..

You should tell that to whoever that redgst97 guy is. He might learn a thing or two from you.

Btw, lovinmydodge, you build, design, and install car audio, right? According to you here (see post #5), you do. If so, how come you couldn't even wire up a set of subwoofers correctly according to your comment here in your Youtube video? Your install in your truck looks bland and it even resulted in "smashed" speakers according to yourself in that video. You claim to build boxes also (refer back to link 1) but just three days ago, you had to ask how to cut speaker holes here. When sound deadening material was discussed here on IA, you mentioned SSA like you knew who they were and you just barely learned who they are here just a few days ago. With the way you came barging in on IA like you are the newly crowned king of car audio, it's just common sense that someone like that is usually full of shit. Amirite?

Just sayin'.

[neon_ert3]

sorry if i dont kno how to put HOME AUDIO SPEAKERS in a JEEP

ps every sound comp ive been to, ive never seen house speakers hangin from the ceiling of a truck/van

[lovinmydodge]

You should tell that to whoever that redgst97 guy is. He might learn a thing or two from you.

Btw, lovinmydodge, you build, design, and install car audio, right? According to you here (see post #5), you do. If so, how come you couldn't even wire up a set of subwoofers correctly according to your comment here in your Youtube video? Your install in your truck looks bland and it even resulted in "smashed" speakers according to yourself in that video. You claim to build boxes also (refer back to link 1) but just three days ago, you had to ask how to cut speaker holes here. When sound deadening material was discussed here on IA, you mentioned SSA like you knew who they were and you just barely learned who they are here just a few days ago. With the way you came barging in on IA like you are the newly crowned king of car audio, it's just common sense that someone like that is usually full of shit. Amirite?

Just sayin'.

I'll start by saying this. I had the subs wired wrong. When I originally designed the box to be single chambered. Then added a second chamber and second speaker terminal. I never changed the voice coils around on the quad 2 ohm voice coils on that sub. SO I had then removed the second amp that I was using. and had just dropped the second wire back to the first amp. IN doing so I assumed that the amp would be seing a 1 ohm load to each sub but it showed to be wrong. I was seeing a 2 ohm load to each sub because I had messed up the wiring and one side of the quad line had come unhooked. Second I knew who SSA was because about four or five months ago I bought the XXX 15 I have now from ANT at ssa. As for the hole cutting out thing I myself have seen different ppl use different tools to make the hole cut out. I just wanted to know what other ppl used on their router. not that I didn't know anything about building them or that i was new at it. Truth be told you took the three times you knew about anything I had posted from general ideas that I was asking about ( which my questions were all in a desire to gather opinions ) and assumed I knew nothing. Truth be told I have built a lot of boxes. NO at the time it was a crappy install and I'll admit that. And now the sub I have is in a proper box at proper wiring. problem is now that I dont have the right amp. The sub is running off a JL 1000/1 amp and only seeing at best 1200 rms. where the sub is rated at 2000rms. Also how many people do you see running things like the selenium drivers and woofers in their rides? I see quite a few. OR the Tang bang woofers. I believe the current sq comp ride only hits like a 138 or 139 and he is using some of the home audio speakers in his ride. * Details I don't know all he is using but I do know that he is using some line from a home audio company* I don't claim to know everything about car audio. I do know this much tho. If they should like shit they were either hooked up wrong or you don't have enough power, Or they were blown. Home audio is a lot more efficent and watt for watt they usually have a higher sensitivity. Now if you have something else you have a problem with me you can send me a message pm me or what ever. I simply just stated that if it didn't sound good chances are they were improply installed.

[lovinmydodge]

also never said that the subs were " Smashed " either.... said it was a tight fit to get those subs back there. But the subs were improperly hooked up yes but still.

[THEONE]

back in 1996 i used home speakers in my 88 cavalier haha they were fisher speakers and i had a radio shack optimus brand 100watt amp with a kenwood tape player with knobs haha

it actually sounded pretty good for what it was.

[hybrid90accord]

your kidding right? show me a SQ car with home audio in it.

Actually more cars then you think run eminece, peerless, morel, denon, and other home audio components in there cars. There was a Guy in Car audio&electronice magazine a year ago that ran peerless speakers in his 89 corvette. Go over to www.DIYmobileaudio.com and half the guys over there run high end home audio components

[dimsumboy]

Actually more cars then you think run eminece, peerless, morel, denon, and other home audio components in there cars. There was a Guy in Car audio&electronice magazine a year ago that ran peerless speakers in his 89 corvette. Go over to www.DIYmobileaudio.com and half the guys over there run high end home audio components

don't forget vifa, my favorite back in the day when i couldn't afford fancy brand name car audio stuff.

[redgst97]

This thread should have died 2 weeks ago.....