6x9 opinions....BASS - MIDRANGE

[88ROOK]

lets see peoples opinions on which 6x9s produce the best bass and midrange (not seperate components). i have JL Audio tr690s but i would like a little more bass. hard to explain but tight bass little above midrange. system just feels like its missing a little in the dpartment

 

[sumgruuvz]

Unless you sound deaden the doors and put some of the fast rings behind them, you won't get any real good response from any speaker. I bet if you were to do that on the doors, the ones you have now would probably sound much better with midbass.

Edit: Here's a link to show how and why.

 

[WilliamS]

How are you driving them? Headunit, Alpine system, aftermaket amp? From there do you have a crossover or DSP on them? Also how flexible are you with what you put in there, are you capable to fab up something? There are some nice 6x9s that can dip and fill nicely into the sub range, but you gotta be ready to play.

 

[autokraftgt]

Without replacing 6x9's, the best way to improve your midbass response is to deaden the doors very well. If thoroughly done, you will hear a difference. Also, without knowing the details of your set up, having a peoper xover set up is very valuable whether it be through passives or a fully active system. That will enable you to control the range of the frequencies your 6x9 are asked to handle, then you can make those speakers a bit hotter (through gain adjustment, level adjustments, or eq work) without stressing other speakers. That's why a 3-way front stage has some advantages over a 2-way front stage....the midbass speakers only play midbass frequencies say, 70hz-300hz, then the midrange will take over higher than that. You can safely bump up the output to the midbass without effecting the midrange and higher frequencies because your midbass speakers are not pulling double duty (midbass & midrange)