well imaging would accually be better on the floor yes because of arrival times. if done correctley and the car is made for good kickpannel imaging than yes. measure the disatance from speaker location to appropriate driver side ear. Measure from kicks and from dash location. witchever has distance more equal to eachother than that is a good starting point. Kick are going to image better and give a better defined
vocal point for the soundstage But some cars the seats just sit allot higher than other cars and in those cars it is hard to get the soundstage off the floor. but if your seats sit at a level in direct path to speaker it should image quite well. Our brains have a hard time disinquishing sound height. (if we had ears an top and bottom of our heads maby we would do better at it...joke ha ha) but really we have a hard time with it. If you stick a kickpannel speaker in and the stereo image is on the floor than the speaker doesnt have a direct path to the ear OR reflected sound is louder than the sound the speaker.
Do this experiment.
Get a good tiny set of bookshelf speakers, hook them up buy them selfs with plenty of extra speakerwire. and just play music and put speakers in kicks, put them where doorpannel is put them in dash area near dash speaker and just listen, Get to know how your car sounds, every car sounds diffrent. than use your best judgement to determine wich way you want to go with your system. It is possible you may make poor dicitions, but rember the system is olny as good as its weakest link and you should hear what doesnt sound good, if your like me at all youll end up re-doing it 1000 times, and finally when you get it right the way you want it you probbally end up selling the car and starting all over again...
BTW anyone been BBQin lateley
vocal point for the soundstage But some cars the seats just sit allot higher than other cars and in those cars it is hard to get the soundstage off the floor. but if your seats sit at a level in direct path to speaker it should image quite well. Our brains have a hard time disinquishing sound height. (if we had ears an top and bottom of our heads maby we would do better at it...joke ha ha) but really we have a hard time with it. If you stick a kickpannel speaker in and the stereo image is on the floor than the speaker doesnt have a direct path to the ear OR reflected sound is louder than the sound the speaker.
Do this experiment.
Get a good tiny set of bookshelf speakers, hook them up buy them selfs with plenty of extra speakerwire. and just play music and put speakers in kicks, put them where doorpannel is put them in dash area near dash speaker and just listen, Get to know how your car sounds, every car sounds diffrent. than use your best judgement to determine wich way you want to go with your system. It is possible you may make poor dicitions, but rember the system is olny as good as its weakest link and you should hear what doesnt sound good, if your like me at all youll end up re-doing it 1000 times, and finally when you get it right the way you want it you probbally end up selling the car and starting all over again...
BTW anyone been BBQin lateley
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