stevepaa

Anyone put either of these speakers in their car? And where did you put the crossover? thanks

Jeremy Pinsly

Cross-overs get mounted in the door pockets....

stevepaa

I should have been clearer with my question. Normally crossovers go in the space between the open pocket of the door cubby and the closed section, in the area you cannot see. For those who installed Focal speakers with crossovers did those larger Focal crossovers fit in the original location.

dutchcrunch

yes they do

Jeremy Pinsly

My Focal crossovers were mounted in the door pocket with the lid...When the lid is closed you can't see them.

Eric Kessel

My 165 V2 crossovers fit in the space that had the original crossovers. I'm not positive, but all the Focal crossovers should have a couple switches in them, so you might be better off putting them in the door pocket instead.

Jeremy Pinsly

My crossovers were velcrod (sp) to the inside wall of where the door pocket with the lid....I think there is enough slack in the wires to pull them out to adjust any switches, but I haven't tried to do this since I had them professionally installed.

Mavel

I threw out the the cracked original Blaupunkt front speakers and I installed both new front speakers and a new power amplifier.

Speakers was focal, polyglass series 130 V2, type 2 way separate, exactly dimensions as the original. A crossover which was fitted instead of the old one in the doors. (follow cables)
A minor small adjustment was needed on the tweeter, but it was nothing really.
(website: http://www.focal-fr.com/car/en/polyglass/index.htm)
There are a number of rewiews there, testwinner all the time.

The amplifier fitted perfectly under the passenger seat (have a C4 -90),
it was the: audison LRx 2.150.
(http://www.audison.com/default.asp?lang=eng)

(Extremely small size, extraordinary musical performances, exceptional energy reserve. LRx 2 amplifiers have very high current supply capacity to easily drive even the most difficult loads and thrilling power, for all needs. If used alone, they are especially suitable to handle exacting, good quality speakers systems; if employed in several units, they are the best to build multi-amplification systems with very high SPL values. They have a double bypass Hi/Lo-Pass Butterworth crossover for driving multiamplified or subwoofer systems.)


The salesman informed me that the sound would be better if I cut both sides of the water/condensation protection plastic cover, so that you only keep the upper 180 degrees of the cover, or else you will a get a "mailbox, narrow, can"-sound. I cut the lower part as he said.

What an improvement, what a sound!

I have an Alpine stereo and cd exchanger instead of the old Becker original.

I can warmly recommend these products although I don't know If they are available worldwide. They are perfect for the 964!

Regards

Patrik