30.11.1999
NOTE! The speakers on all photos are VX 130's

The speakers are mounted on the doors as shown in the photos. The box volume is about 7L and it's filled with cotton wool. The mid-bass range isn't anything to party about, but maybe I'll get a pair of 6" subs some day to deal with that.

Even if the speakers are left a bit behind the legs, the sound is balanced enough even without any adjustments on the balanceknob. And the installation doesn't make exiting the car any more difficult, though getting in requires some carefulness. Now that I've replaced those VX 130's with VRX 130's, I've also installed the 'shield nets' that come with them.

The reason I changed the front speakers was that this installation unfortunately doesn't sound very good, there seems to be a little problem at arount 2-4Khz that makes the sound too 'raw' for my ears. With these new VRX's the problem got a bit smaller, but still excists. The EQ of the head unit (Blaupunkt San Francisco) can't fix the problem completely, altough it makes my life much easier. With the old speakers I've tried a DSP (Pioneer) that has much more versatile EQ options and that helped a lot, unfortunately I can't afford any kind of DSP right now so I'll just have to cope with this problem for now.