VE Centre Speaker Questions

[neevo]

I have been reading all of the threads about the VE centre speaker. Being an "amateur studio fiddler" I understand the rationale behind why this thing should be removed, seeing the thing also gives you an understanding of why it should be unplugged.

With that in mind I thought I would give it a crack not 10 minutes ago. I came up with some questions:

1. The stereo imaging is naturally much improved, however that crappy speaker did offer a degree of fullness to the sound which I miss. Is there anyway to get this back? I will be ungrading the fronts to a reasonable set of splits in the new year and was wondering if the centre space could be used for an additional left tweeter?

2. I can't get the damn front right clip to lock back in place Anyone else had this and if so how did you get the bloody thing to lock back in!

Cheers

[HCVP]

The reason you noticed an improvement, is because your sound stage is now more direct. The centre speaker is pretty well pointless. Picture where you sit form the drivers seat, now you have left, and right audio. Having the centre speaker connected, means you have 2 sources of sound coming from your left, and only one from your right. To make matters worse, the 2 from the left, are also different lenghts from you.

There's no need to have so many speakers in a set up. If your upgrading your fronts, then a decent set with a suitable amplifier, should be more than sufficient for a decent front stage..

[neevo]

There's no need to have so many speakers in a set up. If your upgrading your fronts, then a decent set with a suitable amplifier, should be more than sufficient for a decent front stage..

No problem. Any advise on where to house an amp for the fronts? Looks like I have to direct wire it into the battery (which is in the back). This sounds like a lot of wires to install.

[HCVP]

Its the same amount of wires every time lol
I couldn't really say where to mount the amp. Some where in the back would be the most obvious suggestion, but it would always be visible from the outside being a wagon (never a good thing) and could be prone to being damaged if something was to hit it. If you could get an amp small enough, you could mount it under one of the seats.

[caraudiorookie]

In my calais V sportwagon I put my amp under the drivers seat. I didn't want it exposed in the boot.

Having the battery in the boot makes the power cable easy to run. I just ran it under the trim on the side of the boot, under the base of the rear seat and then popped it out under the drivers seat. There is a flap in the carpet under the drivers seat that gives good access to the chasis. I used a dremel to take an area back to bare metal and mounted the ground there. The ground wire is short and securely attached. This seems to work fine (someone more experienced may wish to comment on this though).

To get signal for the amp I tapped a rear speaker wire (it's only for a sub) beside the head unit and connected it to a LOC with a remote turn on feature.