Quick Question! Need explanation, 2 mids in door sealed or ported?

[wL<3bass]

You'll find out very soon that using an IB mid in a enclosed pod is harder than you think took some fine tuning to get my a-pillars pods to sound the way I wanted... I also realized in a closed pod the size of mine low end extension wasn't really pronounced and on 55hz freq I could actually hear the panel rattle against the metal pillar... Right now my 5.25 mids had to be crossed at 120hz, it helped alot with rock music, especially drums... But I have 6.5" in the doors to help with lower midbass extension (55hz and up).

This isn't exactly answering your question, just giving you my experience with low enclosure volume and IB mids... It's gonna take some testing to see what sounds good in your car, with your pods, with your mids... Getting it right the first time isn't always easy.

[Boon]

Normal door speakers are going to suck the balls in a sealed pod on your door.

They're designed to run IB or in a loose approximation of that... the TS parameters are all wrong for sealed usually, you'll probably find that they're lacking extremely in midbass.

Open the backs up into your door cavity, then make good use of sound deadening.

[STEvil]

build a horn in your door for your mids

Lots of room behind the panel to curl the mouth of the horn into a large opening that aims front/back/top/bottom, like a flat sea shell

[monkeyleg]

OK Just making sure I'm not the only one that's thought about doing this. Guess I'll try them sealed and see if I like it. And when I do cut the holes how is the size of the hole determined? I'm sure the smaller the hole the more drastic the sound will appear. For A-pillars using just the volume of the trim piece is good enough? I don't need to play less than 100HZ on the mids.