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Originally Posted by Gary in NJ
Yeah, I don't see me EVER cramming someone back there. This car is a two seater.
The rear speakers do serve a purpose. When (if) you sit in a living room listening to music, or sit in a club listening to a band, the speakers fire at you and sound is reflected from the walls behind you. This gives the sense of being surrounded by the sound. In a car with just front speakers the sound is directed from your left and right, leaving a void behind you. To me, this is unnatural.
Given the above description, the rear speakers don't have to do a lot of heavy lifting. But the stock rear speakers can't even accomplish this simple task.
Good to know about the speaker cavity, infinite012. I will have to remove the panel and determine the depth of the space. Maybe a mid-grade 4" coaxial (I believe they are 4-ohm) would work well in that location. Perhaps I could also install an amp with speaker-level inputs to help drive those speakers.
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A car, club, and living room are all completely different environments for tuning audio.
In a car if you don't have processing and delay for the rear channels its simply duplicates the front. So things that should now be for example between center and left would be coming from behind you.
It also causes issues with getting a good center on the music as well as more problems of bringing the subwoofer in time with your midbass, which leaves it feeling like its coming from the trunk or at best floating between the front and rear.
I'm not tryn to tell you how to set your car up, just giving insight of the issues you run into by having them back there.