Raising sound stage

[gijoe 10+ year member]

I am currently running active with a set of boston s60's, an 880 and a denon 4 channel. I have the mids in the bottom of the doors and the tweets at the door handles. I really want to raise my sound stage up, right now it's coming from around my chest level and I want it closer to head level. I'm probably going to pick up a set of ID mids and I'm also looking for some tweets. I think that whatever tweets I end up with, I'll mount them higher up than they are now, which should help. I was also thinking that a bigger tweet that'll play a little lower will be good so that I can cross it lower, this should also bring the stage up too, correct? I'm not going to build kicks for my car, so there is going to be some issues with tuning that I'll just have to deal with. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can accomplish this? Any ideas on what tweets will work well? Thanks in advance!

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[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

I'm guessing that your tweeter location may be causing the low sound stage.

Trying raising your low-pass point on your mids (overlap), since there is some distance between the mids and tweets.

did you do any time alignment?

 

[gijoe 10+ year member]

Yeah I have time alignment, I'll play with the low-pass and see if that helps. Thanks.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

time alignment helps a lot.

what are your x-over points?

 

[gijoe 10+ year member]

My crossover points have been changing a lot lately, it's my first time running active and I'm doing a lot of experimenting. I'll get back to you later with what I have them set at now. I'm having more trouble with the slopes than the crossover points themselves. I guess I don't have the best tuned ears.

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

finding FR graphs of your drivers would help. But frequency response changes from vehicle to vehicle.