Any aftermarket speaker will sound better in the door than in the kick.
We all know what happens when you put a speaker in too small a box, right?
That's why aftermarket speakers suck ass in a BMW, they all have incorrect suspension for that tiny airspace, thats is also why "kick panel pods" all sound like dick too, zero midbass. That's why dumb-ass installers went from a fully sealed kickpanel to an open back, they lack the knowledge to build something that actually plays correctly.
Those dipshits who think they sound good have never heard what music is supposed to sound like.
In the meantime, if you must use aftermarket speakers, the doors are about the only place in the front of the car that has a large enough resonant chamber for an aftermarket 6.5", might as well do them there...or, use actual proper speaker design and put a BMW speaker where BMW designed it, so you get proper pathlength equality in the midrange, where the ear has sensitivity to such things, then put the tweeter up high, so it can reflect off of the glass (y'ever see that 3.5Khz peak off glass? 20db or more peak, don't let your tweeters play anywhere near 4Khz!) just as BMW designed, for better "spatiality", which is why the stock PS (or ours, of course) have such excellent staging.
Aftermarket speakers suck ass in a BMW, period. The airspace behind them is just too damn small and the crossover points are wrong. That's why people are so happy with properly powered stock Premium Sounds, or are way better off using the crossover we designed specifically for this application with BMW speakers, again, specifically designed for this application.
Use some actual physics, people, this ain't rocket science.
We all know what happens when you put a speaker in too small a box, right?
That's why aftermarket speakers suck ass in a BMW, they all have incorrect suspension for that tiny airspace, thats is also why "kick panel pods" all sound like dick too, zero midbass. That's why dumb-ass installers went from a fully sealed kickpanel to an open back, they lack the knowledge to build something that actually plays correctly.
Those dipshits who think they sound good have never heard what music is supposed to sound like.
In the meantime, if you must use aftermarket speakers, the doors are about the only place in the front of the car that has a large enough resonant chamber for an aftermarket 6.5", might as well do them there...or, use actual proper speaker design and put a BMW speaker where BMW designed it, so you get proper pathlength equality in the midrange, where the ear has sensitivity to such things, then put the tweeter up high, so it can reflect off of the glass (y'ever see that 3.5Khz peak off glass? 20db or more peak, don't let your tweeters play anywhere near 4Khz!) just as BMW designed, for better "spatiality", which is why the stock PS (or ours, of course) have such excellent staging.
Aftermarket speakers suck ass in a BMW, period. The airspace behind them is just too damn small and the crossover points are wrong. That's why people are so happy with properly powered stock Premium Sounds, or are way better off using the crossover we designed specifically for this application with BMW speakers, again, specifically designed for this application.
Use some actual physics, people, this ain't rocket science.
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