Thread: Speakers for Defender - splits any use ?

I have the speakers in mine, in the headlining next to the front seat headrests. (one each side)

I have pioneer speaker (probably middle of the road) (Head unit is good though)

With the speakers anywhere else I cannot hear anything clearly.

I have a Pioneer head unit to go in. How are the speakers mounted in yours ? Don;t spose you have nay pics of the instal ?

will get one for you.... hang on... Mmmm appear to have lost my garage keys.... mmm great...

Here you go:

Nice, thanks.

Whats it mounted to behind the trim. Is it in a speaker box ?

Its just mounted to the headlining. The screws go into little metal clips.

its actually a LR dealer fitment from new.

pioneer and VDO dayton make a 4inch split kit, about $100
in the defender you need 2 things - you want to increase the volume to hear it over the engine and road noise, and with the factory speaker mounts, you want to raise the level of the treble so you get some direction in the front.

4inch splits in the front - mount the bass driver in the factory location towards your feet and put the tweeter drivers up on the dashboard. Pioneer TS-C1002 i think the model number is. These wire straight into most normal headunits and dont need a power amp.

For the rear i would suggest some good 6inch speakers mounted in boxes up the back of the car (above the small windows either side of the rear door. there is room to mount the standard 6inch speaker boxes you would get from somewhere like JB or strathfield.

if you want to actually get decent sound, adding one of the pre-fab subwoofer enclosures which includes the amp will bring up the bass which the deefie is always going to be lacking because there are no real cavities to fire a speaker into to give you decent bass (like a door or a boot).

most newish headunits will produce enough sound to make listening pretty good at 100km/hr although adding the subwoofer makes a nice difference...

Andrew

Rear speakers could be more difficult than that - it's a 130 twin cab and speakers in top corners could be head-bumpers for taller passengers on rough terrain ?

In my old single cab ute i had speakers mounted in boxes behind the doors (ire just in fron of bulkhead) and facing sideways (there were no front speakers). This seemed to work "OK".