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E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
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E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Just wanted to say that I found this very useful today while sorting out my damaged weather membrane
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Just bought a Z4 and was thinking of doing this. Was it worth the effort to sound deaden?
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Everyone who's put in the sound deadening seems to think it's been a worthwhile exerciseChazaxl wrote:Just bought a Z4 and was thinking of doing this. Was it worth the effort to sound deaden?
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Thanks - will be doing the same - considering doing some over the floor too - it can only help.PerryGunn wrote:Everyone who's put in the sound deadening seems to think it's been a worthwhile exerciseChazaxl wrote:Just bought a Z4 and was thinking of doing this. Was it worth the effort to sound deaden?
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
i dont think the sound deadening in the airbag exit in the door card was a good idea but nice Wright up
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
It should be fine as long as you keep the deadening in two halves (either side of the fracture line) so it doesn't inhibit the panel splitting should the airbag go offgingertosser wrote:i dont think the sound deadening in the airbag exit in the door card was a good idea but nice Wright up
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Very useful post - ill keep this one tagged for the future ( when I get brave enough)
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Great post - hope to do this in the future!
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Help me a bit here.PerryGunn wrote: In the 6-speaker stereo, the tweeter in the triangle above the door receives a full range signal and there is an in-line capacitor close to the tweeter to create a high pass filter - this is the black heatshrink-wrapped blob to the left of the tweeter in this photo.
Looking at wiring diagram it shows that signal for tweeter and front woofer are shared. And rear mid range speaker (behind your head) is alone on channel.
Another thing that puzzles me;
Base 6 speaker system:
Tweeter 4 Ohm
Footwell Woofer 2 Ohm
MID range rear 4 Ohm
If I understand correctly you've added a pair of 4 Ohm speakers on front Tweeter/Woofer channel? So you've split the resistance?
EDIT:
After calculating you haven't altered ohm load much. Probably that's why the system still works although it's a bit more strain for radio's amp to drive 2 additional speakers.
Resistance of original setup would have been 1,3 Ohms. With added speakers you get Ohm load of exactly 1 Ohm.
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Effectively another 4ohm speaker has been wired in parallel with the 4ohm tweeter this gives an effective resistance the same as a 2ohm speaker or, to look at another way, it's the same as replacing the tweeter with an aftermarket 2ohm unitRenoRaines wrote: Looking at wiring diagram it shows that signal for tweeter and front woofer are shared. And rear mid range speaker (behind your head) is alone on channel.
Another thing that puzzles me;
Base 6 speaker system:
Tweeter 4 Ohm
Footwell Woofer 2 Ohm
MID range rear 4 Ohm
If I understand correctly you've added a pair of 4 Ohm speakers on front Tweeter/Woofer channel? So you've split the resistance?
This means that the amplifier will be delivering twice the current but the effective SPL will be +3db which is a doubling of SPL (assuming identical speakers) so you would require less current to achieve the same SPL as the original config i.e. you'd have the volume knob turned down a bit.
At the end of the day, lots of people had done this before me and it doesn't seem to have caused any issues for anyone
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
The other thing to consider is of course the current. I would like to continue the story. So front speakers are driven from the same channel. Instead of adding front speaker would it be able to add 2 bass speaker in the rear. Rear channel speakers are "alone" on the channel. Could you simply add 2 OEM (2 Ohm from HiFi option for instance) speakers on the back using the existing channels?
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
I believe that people have tried this before but with limited success. The consensus seems to be that, once you get past adding the door speaker and possibly replacing the footwell woofer & door tweeter with better-quality units, you should be looking at an amplified setup.RenoRaines wrote:The other thing to consider is of course the current. I would like to continue the story. So front speakers are driven from the same channel. Instead of adding front speaker would it be able to add 2 bass speaker in the rear. Rear channel speakers are "alone" on the channel. Could you simply add 2 OEM (2 Ohm from HiFi option for instance) speakers on the back using the existing channels?
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
Great, just what i was looking for..
I am installing new 4" components and 6.5" Mid Bass Speakers on the weekend
Amp & Jl Clean Sweep in the following Weeks (powering the 4" & 6.5" speakers - in the interm these will be powered via the head unit.
So my question:
My 4" components have Cross overs with them, would i simply remove the wire from the existing 4" speaker and connect this to the cross over - then take new wires from the cross over to the new 4" & new tweeter
How much of the inner door were you able to get through the holes? is it near the size of the hole or covering a bigger area inside?
I wonder if its worth putting on on the outer part of the door were the weather proof thing goes on?
I am installing new 4" components and 6.5" Mid Bass Speakers on the weekend
Amp & Jl Clean Sweep in the following Weeks (powering the 4" & 6.5" speakers - in the interm these will be powered via the head unit.
So my question:
My 4" components have Cross overs with them, would i simply remove the wire from the existing 4" speaker and connect this to the cross over - then take new wires from the cross over to the new 4" & new tweeter
How much of the inner door were you able to get through the holes? is it near the size of the hole or covering a bigger area inside?
I wonder if its worth putting on on the outer part of the door were the weather proof thing goes on?
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Re: E85 - Sound Deadening and Door Speakers
The standard 6-speaker setup doesn't have the 4" door speakers (just space/mounting points for them) - you'd take the feed to the door tweeter and connect it to you crossover (this feed is full range) and then connect your new speakers to the crossover.SamUK wrote:Great, just what i was looking for..
My 4" components have Cross overs with them, would i simply remove the wire from the existing 4" speaker and connect this to the cross over - then take new wires from the cross over to the new 4" & new tweeter
You can cover the majority of the outer doorskin through the holes, there comes a point where it narrows down and you can't get your fingers in far enough to press teh sheets down but you can use a flat trim tool to get a bit furtherSamUK wrote:How much of the inner door were you able to get through the holes? is it near the size of the hole or covering a bigger area inside?
If you wanted to add some mass to the inner doorskin, you could add silentcoat to the rear of the inner panel (the one with the holes in it) - not sure how much it would help as this panel is mostly 'hole'SamUK wrote:I wonder if its worth putting on on the outer part of the door were the weather proof thing goes on?
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