| Im building a car battery-powered PA for guitar, voice and bass. I have some car speakers and a power amp and Im hooking that to a battery-powered mixer. Everything works so far but I havent assembled the parts into an enclosure. |
| Hello, Im trying to collect information to aid in my first attempt at designing and building my first speaker/enclosure. I have read one book, by Dave Weams, on speaker design and construction. It was very informative, but Im sure there must be many differences for enclosures for cars (my application: Nissan Pathfinder). If you could point me in the right direction to find a book that takes you through the entire design and construction process of car speaker enclosures with detailed examples, Id be grateful. TMW Well to find a book that tells you exactly how to build your own enclosure to fit in your specific car with your specific tastes in music isnt possible. |
| andrew queisser wrote: That will be the next step if the overall approach works out. The car speakers are a cheap way to experiment so if it turns out that the weight, size, battery life, etc. are ok then Ill invest in some instrument speakers. The thing is that cheap car speakers arent effective. Keep in mind that if you change for better speakers, you will probably get more volume for the same current draw. |
| I tried talking to the local dealerships but as they have a monopoly in this town they feel no need to be helpful. They flat refused to answer my questions telling me they dont deal with stereo problems on older cars. |
| Good instrument speakers are in the hundred dB sensitivities. The trade off is low bass. Car speakers can do that in a nice enclosed venue ( the car) and instrument speakers sacrifice the lowest octave a bit to go much louder in the range where you hear the music more than you feel it. Big subwoofers with huge amps can get you bottom when the time comes. Even then the big subs still only go to 40-35 hz, if they are good loud ones. Stereo subs are another issue and they go lower but again they can not play loud. |
