Re: speaker placement

["Shawn" <kolob@digitalpla.net>]

If you want the closed sound, try building the area under the front(and
rear) seats into a box.

--  Shawn

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> From: Richard Visser <rtvisser@xs4all.nl>
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: speaker placement
> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 2:21 PM
> 
> Charlie,
> 
> At 10:38 6-05-98 -0400, you wrote:
> >But for the front, I went and bought a parcel tray.  On the outside
> >corners I made a platform out of thin plywood, painted it black, drilled
> >holes and mounted with those thin "tie" things, you know the ones
> >commonly used to tie electrical wires together?  I then mounted small
> >surface speakers on these platforms. 
> 
> If I understand you correctly the platforms are placed horizontally?
> So the speakers "face" straight up and do not have a closed soundbox?
> Is the board sufficient to reproduce music in a way that it doesn't 
> sound like a cheap transistorradio? 
> 
> I'm interested because the solution I've tried for my SB doesn't work to
> my satisfaction: I also used plywood to make little soundboxes to put on
> my parceltray. They are slightly bigger than the diameter of the
speakers.
> The speakers are directed slantly towards driver and passenger. I thought

> this way I can get them out while camping and do not have to cut holes in

> the door or rear sidepanels.
> But the sound they produce is too thin. Probably because the soundboxes
> are too small. I think they only work well with a (closed) soundbox 
> like a trunk or door. Other solutions should at least have enough cubical

> space.  
> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Richard Visser
> '67 SB
> The Hague, Holland   
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