Speaker Placement.

[NcHalfrican]

What is the kind of "standard" placement for speakers in an SQ setup. I was reading through some of the threads on the SQ forum and heard something about midbass and tweets in the kick.

[Bigballa39213]

Different for many vechicles. Power and speaker type has alot to do with it also.

[Lynbo]

Some of the theories are to place the speakers as far away from the listener to even the musical pathways or the distance the music must travel to reach your ears. In example if you put your mid/high speakers in a small enclosure and place them on your dash facing directly the driver seat and a second one on the passenger side facing that seat. You in the driver seat would hear the one on the driver side more than the speaker on the passenger side almost like a echo cause the musical pathway differences. Unlike in a home environment you can place your speakers to be even left/right to your seating area to put you in the middle so the sound will reach you close to the same time.

Same thing if the speakers was in the factory door locations you in the driver seat will hear the driver side door first then the passenger second due to pathway. In the time before channel time delay you could play with reversing the wiring with the speakers on the driver side to put those 180 degrees out of phase to the passenger side to even the pathway.

In the early 1980's speaker works in southern California was one of the first to move the mid / high to the kick panels to narrow down the distance pathway of left / right speaker placement. They were the first to use some pro-audio time delays to reduce it even more.

With current speakers that have a great off-axis range and time delays are very common now days it really comes down to how much work you want to do for an SQ setup. Dash and pillar placement are very common in the SQ world of course with time delay. Chasing the SQ world will be similar to the SPL world build, test, then do it over again to gain where you think may have been a weak point.

If you are looking at chasing the SQ install review you equipment and start with simplifying your speaker line up to where you have a single speakers for your highs - midrange for the left and right side. So you can focus on placement and pathways and of course make notes of your test/placements. For more control you may want to go active for your mid’s and highs with a time alignments crossover/EQ.

Good luck

[kirill007]

What is the kind of "standard" placement for speakers in an SQ setup. I was reading through some of the threads on the SQ forum and heard something about midbass and tweets in the kick.

In SQ there is no "standard" placement.

EDIT:

You just need to try and try again, use velcro to attach you're tweeters to something so u can change places easily.

But kickpanel's are good, some components are better used off-axis, instead of on-axis.

Just test,test,test, and then if u think u're good test again.

[OldsBoomer]

very informational thanks for that post

[NcHalfrican]

Thanks for all the info and suggestions! As boomer said, very informational