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Originally Posted by SomeGeoffGuy
We'll find out this spring! I am going to disagree with you that a treated door with Audiofrogs is not going to sound better than the garbage buzz machine I have now. The AF 6x9's are 92 dB efficient, which is much better than most 6x9s on the market. It might not be as loud, but there is no way that it won't sound better... I picked up a used Audison AV5.1k for a song last year. That amp will take high and low inputs, and do the crossover for a sub out - all built in. I am going to run that before I get a DSP.
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The part you seem to be ignoring is that there are no speaker outputs from your Bose amp that are even close to flat. They are almost certainly EQd to hell and back to fill in massive holes, flatten massive peaks, and artificially extend the frequency response of the crappy drivers that came in the car. Your vastly-more-accurate AF drivers* will probably do way too good a job reproducing that roller coaster of a frequency curve being sent out by the Bose amp, and you'll suddenly hear a bunch of peaks, valleys, and over-emphasized extremes of frequency. Keep in mind that this is completely different from the stock 1SS 1LE radio module, which
does output a flat signal to the front speakers. We have the luxury of being able to tap that for amps that accept speaker-level inputs, but those with the 2SS Bose setup do not. I hope I'm wrong and that it sounds great. Let us know.
*I know how good they are because I have them too.
PS - I wish someone here had the equipment to accurately measure the stock speaker-level signals across the audible frequency range so we could reall see what GM gave us. I don't mean inferring the responose from SPL measurements in the cabin: that includes the driver's own response, which confuses the issue. I mean measuring the electrical frequency response at the signal wires. We need that for each variant of the Camaro's sound systems, and each pair of speakers to which they send signals. I'm an electrical moron and have no equipment, so I can't do it.