sn8kbit
07-30-2006, 03:54 PM
While waiting for the motor to get finished at RPM, I started piecing together a system for the F150. It's intended to be a daily driver/tow vehicle, so sound to me was as important as everything else.
Equipment:
Front stage: 2 pair of Morel Dotech 6" components, 1 pair of a/d/s A4is 4" components.
Rear fill: a/d/s A4mx 4" coaxials.
Sub: a/d/s 310rs dual voicecoil 10.
Front amp(s): a/d/s p440 6x40w running the built in crossover. 5/6 @ 2ohm to both pair of Morel 6" mids (90 - 3500hz) 3/4 @ 4 ohm to 1 pair of the a/d/s tweeters (2500hz ^) and 1/2 @ 4 ohm on 1 pair of the Morel tweeters (3500hz ^). The A4is 4" mids, and second set of Morel tweeters will run off 1/2 and 3/4 of the a/d/s p6.25 (6x25w) to the a/d/s crossover, which is bi-ampable.
Rear amp: a/d/s p6.25 (6x25) running open. Channels 5/6 will power the a/d/s a4mx 4" coaxials. 1-4 will run the last part of my front stage, as above.
Sub amp: Soundstream Angina, 200w @ 2ohm, mono amp powering the 310rs 10 inch sub. This is the old rubicon (blue) series, when Soundstream was still high quality.
Head unit and signal processing: Alpine CDE-9852. Basic head unit, but quality, with iPod controls (which was important). This will feed signal to an Audiocontrol Three.1 3 band eq with subwoofer crossover (90hz) and line driver.
I think I ended up going overboard from the original setup I intended after getting all of the sound deadening installed. I used 120 sq ft of Damplifier Pro (from seconskinaudio.com) which covered the entire cab, lined the headliner and door panels with Frost King duct wrap, then sandwiched 1" acoustical foam along with a 1/8" layer of neoprene foam between all panels, seatbacks, and lined the floor beneath the carpet and padding with the neoprene. It's so quiet inside the cab your ears ring, there's that much of a difference. I've taken a bit of a break trying to install this stuff with my oldest kids in for the summer, but after next week, I'll start the fiberglassing project on the front door panels to house the Morels, and center for the a/d/s 4's. Thank's to HiFi Buys for the hellacious deal on the Morels during the cost + 10% sale a bit back. I've never heard a set of speakers sound as good as these, ever. Not Quart, not Bostons, Focal, anything. (that's always going to be a preference thing) They're the closet thing I could find to the old school a/d/s separates I always wanted to have, and surpasses them.
I know there's not a ton of audio nuts on the board, but for those that are here, I wanted to pass it along, and hopefully I'll remember to do pics during the fiberglass and install process.
Equipment:
Front stage: 2 pair of Morel Dotech 6" components, 1 pair of a/d/s A4is 4" components.
Rear fill: a/d/s A4mx 4" coaxials.
Sub: a/d/s 310rs dual voicecoil 10.
Front amp(s): a/d/s p440 6x40w running the built in crossover. 5/6 @ 2ohm to both pair of Morel 6" mids (90 - 3500hz) 3/4 @ 4 ohm to 1 pair of the a/d/s tweeters (2500hz ^) and 1/2 @ 4 ohm on 1 pair of the Morel tweeters (3500hz ^). The A4is 4" mids, and second set of Morel tweeters will run off 1/2 and 3/4 of the a/d/s p6.25 (6x25w) to the a/d/s crossover, which is bi-ampable.
Rear amp: a/d/s p6.25 (6x25) running open. Channels 5/6 will power the a/d/s a4mx 4" coaxials. 1-4 will run the last part of my front stage, as above.
Sub amp: Soundstream Angina, 200w @ 2ohm, mono amp powering the 310rs 10 inch sub. This is the old rubicon (blue) series, when Soundstream was still high quality.
Head unit and signal processing: Alpine CDE-9852. Basic head unit, but quality, with iPod controls (which was important). This will feed signal to an Audiocontrol Three.1 3 band eq with subwoofer crossover (90hz) and line driver.
I think I ended up going overboard from the original setup I intended after getting all of the sound deadening installed. I used 120 sq ft of Damplifier Pro (from seconskinaudio.com) which covered the entire cab, lined the headliner and door panels with Frost King duct wrap, then sandwiched 1" acoustical foam along with a 1/8" layer of neoprene foam between all panels, seatbacks, and lined the floor beneath the carpet and padding with the neoprene. It's so quiet inside the cab your ears ring, there's that much of a difference. I've taken a bit of a break trying to install this stuff with my oldest kids in for the summer, but after next week, I'll start the fiberglassing project on the front door panels to house the Morels, and center for the a/d/s 4's. Thank's to HiFi Buys for the hellacious deal on the Morels during the cost + 10% sale a bit back. I've never heard a set of speakers sound as good as these, ever. Not Quart, not Bostons, Focal, anything. (that's always going to be a preference thing) They're the closet thing I could find to the old school a/d/s separates I always wanted to have, and surpasses them.
I know there's not a ton of audio nuts on the board, but for those that are here, I wanted to pass it along, and hopefully I'll remember to do pics during the fiberglass and install process.