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Originally Posted by solidONE
I'm just wondering how much of the home hi-fi stuff can be applied to car audio. Besides limitations in space and road noise, I dont see how it can be different. A speaker is a speaker regardless where you put it.
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it really comes down to the 'room'. overall, with home audio, the room acoustics are pretty straightforward and easily controllable, so the emphasis is more on enclosure and crossover design based on how everything interacts. designs tend to be more passive solutions due to the history of the hobby.
in car audio, the 'room' is a fixed but generally poor design, that cannot be significantly altered, and speaker enclosure design is difficult without a ton of work re-shaping door panels. the emphasis is more on the acoustics of the space and location of speakers than crossover or enclosure design. overall installs tend to be more electronic processing to make everything work within the environment.
speakers
are speakers, but many parameters are still important. off-axis frequency response for starters is very important to understanding what it will actually sound like when installed in less-ideal positions.
i'm not an extreme 'number' kind of guy(i end up google-searching diymobileaudio every time for the specifics), but there's also multiple ways to use the t/s parameters to better understand how specific speakers will also handle not being in a tuned enclosure (very simply--part of enclosure design is to provide a specific amount of resistance against cone movement to alter it's response). certain speakers handle that better than others based on mechanical design.