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Re: Speaker placement w/in cab tank
I just realized my typo. I meant to say "It should work on the tank fill neck side as well". Sorry, my bad. :-/
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Willowbilly3,
I think those would work nicely. I noticed the speakers in my truck at work are there too.
A friend from FTWtrucks has convinced me to do the in-frame tank modification. He has already completed a 1938 Deluxe Coupe and is starting on a 1956 Big Window pickup. Since we have the same flare side beds, we are each measuring our frames to see if they are the same too. Do we have a Tech Article on that here. If not, when I get around to doing it, I'd be glad to donate the article.
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i had the plastic headliner in my truck...it didn't fit all the way to the trim, sounded bad, was glossy black, and condensation was collecting behind it, starting rust. just a few things to think about. i ended up mounting a pair of 6x9's flush with front of the seat. if i can get my camera to work (again) i'll take a pic.
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Many years ago I bought a 54 chevy...without a headliner. In the era of transister radios.....I put the radio on top of the car andthe music vibrated throughout the entire body...the girls thought I had the coolest stereo around.
I hadto make up some crazy excuses when i drove around and the stereo wouldn't play
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I made a box. It doesn't get in the way.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/105678911/141170765sUbnVc
http://community.webshots.com/photo/105678911/141170716OKNWDb
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One thing that helps with under seat speakers, is bass is pretty reflective and non directional. So having the low end drivers, "woofers, subwoofers" under the seat will have little adverse effect. But the high end speakers "tweeters", are very directional. Their sound is like line of sight high freq radio waves nearly. It's always best to have them in the line of "ear", if possible. Tweeters and other high freq drivers are usually small, and can be mounted in the dash, doors, cab corners, etc with good results. If you had some power, and good sub's under or behind the seat, and then some extra tweeters, or a 2nd set of full range speakers that include tweeters out in the open somewhere, it's possible to have *excellent* sound in a truck with little obvious butchering required. They make dual channel, single speaker, dual voice coil subs, which can help with mounting maybe. Being the lows are non directional, a single dual channel sub actually works pretty well. But I always prefer separate spaced apart tweaters. Most of your perceived stereo imaging, to the ear, is with the upper freq range. The old ac delco stereo I have is kind of a weird animal. It's 4 speaker output, and of you don't use all 4 channels, you actually lose some channel content for some reason. They don't like to be run with only two channels/speakers. But hook up all 4 channels in 4 corners, and the sound is pretty good and concert hallish..But like I said, I hardly listen to the thing anymore. Don't know why...Years ago, I always ran pretty bad to the bone car stereos, but the last couple of cars, I hardly bothered at all. Kind lost interest in LOUD jams while driving, although I'm still quite a rock-n-roller by music preference..Almost prefer to listen to my engine hummm, and the ham radio... I prefer to listen to the music in the house these days..I think old fartism is slowly setting in.. I do like a good AM radio when I'm on the highway at night sometimes. Both the delco, and my icom 706 are good for that. MK
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I hardly ever listen to the radio in my pickup. The powerstroke I took to Alaska last year didn't even have tunes and it didn't bother me at all. 11,000 mile roadtrip with just the sound of a clattering diesel.
I get kindof wild when good music comes on. Saturday as I hit The Metro for the fifth time in 9 days I had a classic rock station on. I usually try to drive civilized and obey the speed limits. I was growing increasingly tight-jawed about getting my butt ran over while doing the speed limit. Finally I decide that when in Rome... so I cranked the tunes, rolled down the windows and kicked some butt. I took on downtown Dallas on 35E at about 85-90 eating up all but the most deranged that the city could offer to the tune of The Doors and Skynard. I am kind of looking foreward to going back now. That seems to be a real no mans land for cops. But as soon as I got back to double lanes outside the city they were proving their analworthiness in duets.
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>AM radio?? Is THAT what I have to look >forward to later on in life???
Yep. A whole world of sports radio, talking heads, Art Bell, and all night trucker stations await. :) But actually, I have been into AM radio since I was about 7 years old. I like it because it is reflected via skywave, and you can listen to distant stations. FM, you tune a station, and lose it 100 miles down the road. AM, you can drive all night listening to the same station as long as propagation holds up. But I spend more time listening and talking on my ham radio, than I do the AM-FM. The same applies there as far as propagation. I have many bands to choose from through the spectrum from just above the AM band,"1.8 mhz" to way up near the UHF police band. "440 mhz". The VHF/UHF stuff is mainly local like FM radio, or police radio would be, but the lower HF bands work off the ionosphere, and are good for long distance. My mobile setup works all HF bands, but in practice, I usually prefer 40 meters, "7-7.3 mhz" in the day, and 80 meters "3.5-4 mhz" at night. On those bands, I work mainly people in this part of the country that I know and talk to pretty regularly. I can leave Houston and drive off to another state and stay on the same freq the whole trip. MK
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I remember as a kid on the farm we would go set in my dad's 62 Chevy at night in the summer and listen to KOMA in Oklahoma City on AM. That had to be at least 800 miles in a direct line.
I wonder if they still have the King Bisquit Flour Hour?
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