SPEAKERS

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MATHEW

Original Poster:

235 posts

277 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Would just like to know if you can place a 3rd and 4th speaker in the griff and if so where is the best place to don it.
Could you use the round vents in the rear of the cabin

GasBlaster

27,428 posts

286 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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My round vents in the back of the cabin were full of speaker when I bought my Griff so I guess the answer is yes!

richb

52,748 posts

291 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Yes, there is tons of stuff on here about upgrading the sounds, try the search facility to find it.

Rgds R...

SimonT

2,136 posts

280 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Hi,

If you read Steve Heath,s jolly excellent book he advises against fitting speakers in the vents in the rear bulkhead as they are there to prvent a pressure build up in the boot causing you boot lid to fly off

My Griff has speakers mounted on the rear bulkhead just inboard of the vents and they seem to work well

Bruce Fielding

2,244 posts

289 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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I had the vents switched for speakers and it works very well - you can now hear CD's at speed which you couldn't before - took less than an hour and about £100 if memory serves.

Downside is that I think Pioneer have stopped making the matching ones to the fronts now. I only found mine by accident.

Incidentally, I didn't realise that the car was so airtight that it needed extra holes in it

Marshy

2,749 posts

291 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Be glad Pioneer don't make matching ones: they suck.

bruce fielding

2,244 posts

289 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Oh, come on, Marshy! Don't tell me you're one of those who fills the entire car with metal boxes and then plays a series of tones designed to blow the ears off gazelles at 200 paces!

If you're in a Griff, frankly it doesn't matter what speakers you have, they'll be knackered by the GRP body and the noise coming from the pipes running under your bum! If you can hear that it's actually music and not the shipping forecast at over 50, you're doing quite well.

Marshy

2,749 posts

291 months

Tuesday 27th November 2001
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Nope, I'm not a car hi-fi freak. However, I do like to be able to hear the bass in my music. Why? (a) I'm a bass guitarist (b) If it was there on the recording, I'd like to be able to hear it.

The standard Pioneers turn to mush as soon as you try to throw anything near a full frequency spectrum at them. I stuck some Infinity Kappas in the front, and a cheap end of line pair of 6x9s in the back, and now I can feel my internal organs jumping around when I crank the stereo up. The head unit is a standard Sony minidisc head with a claimed output of 4x50w.

When I have to be on customer site, I have to do the amusing Cambridge-Cheltenham-round-trip-with-a-days-work-in-the-middle thing. While the exhaust is undoubtedly lovely, I do like to get some alternative and halfway decent sounding aural entertainment some of the time.

davidd

6,527 posts

291 months

Wednesday 28th November 2001
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If you fit rear's in the vent holes cut a single vent hole in the middle. Thats what I asked for on mine and nothing seems to blow off (fnarr).