Project "Aria" - An Audiophile's Dream 991
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Funny, but my PSE is 6 channels of audio bliss
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The tweeter housings get a healthy coat of satin black to match the factory interior. The tweeter opening also gets a few neodymium magnets that will hold the grille cover. Once that's done the assembly is bolted onto the door using machine hardware. The holes for the hardware are at the very front of the door panel so that if the car ever needs to go back to factory the plastic OEM panel will cover them up entirely like nothing was ever done.
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Wow, those are some crazy angles with the tweeter support structure embedded in the triangular base structure. How did you come up with the angle? Line of site/laser or actual tweeter placement and sound tests.
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I never knew that tweets were distorted so much when reflected off of glass. Continue educating please...
The outside angles of the housing were all taken from the Porsche's design language. If I got a shot of the door from farther back it would make that more apparent. The angle of the tweeter is just to get the speaker closer to on-axis with the listening position. The higher a frequency is the more narrow the dispersion.
Here's the grilles we pressed for the housing, and the final shots of the assembly on the door.
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Amazing how well it was thought out and executed. Craftsmanship like that is very hard to find these days.
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I'm curious what were the exact dimensions of the subwoofer cabinet? It appears that the front panel that houses the aluminum grill is wider than the rear panel. The design appears to be a quadrangle vs. rectangular box.
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Very impressive! I've been into 2 channel home audio all of my adult life and have put a lot of time and effort into my system. I've never bothered with car audio but this thread has me considering it. I know who I will bring my car to if I decide to upgrade the system in my base 2012 991!
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That is correct DrCGuerra. I don't have the exact dimensions, but the base shape is an isosceles trapezoid. the car's interior tapers in that area, so a rectangular enclosure would have looked misplaced and aftermarket.