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It's a great material for it. MDF WILL get wet in your doors. In particular if you drive a GM. I was planning on spraying the outside of my door with a hose for a minute or something to get a rough idea of how much moisture gets in. I'd hate to have a driver get ruined.

You can use it, but nothing will stick to it so you will have to use mechanical fastening. Yea, I had read that. People usually just use screws, I'm assuming that would be ok. The only issue I can think of is clay etc wouldn't stick to it very well if I wanted to add that around the baffle for mass.

I haven't, but you can always apply some resin to the mdf, makes it pretty water resistant. I hadn't considered resin, that's a good idea. Thanks

Has anyone tried making baffles using HDPE plastic? Is it worth using over MDF? I've seen a few people use it instead of MDF and was curious if it made much of a difference. I can see where it would be more resistant to water, but I would hope the inside of a door wouldn't get so wet that it would matter.

How'd you find it? If you don't mind me asking. I've been searching google for pdfs, along the lines of "hrtf localization" "head related transfer functions localization", and surprisingly, I found that last article with "hrtr pinna 500hz." That's some clever googling

I went through this whole debate. Placement is everything, so yes better up high. EQ'ing is the last resort in my book if you understand the way the human ear perceives sound and follow the things you know about accoustics during install then you have already awnsered your own question. I had a Sony deck years ago that had a setting that "raised" the sound of the front speakers in increments . The unit had three settings. Amazingly it actully worked, SO in theory I know you can use the eq to raise the correct frequencys but have no clue which ones. I just know that install will predict so much and the eq'ing is there to correct anomalies in you particular install due to driver characteristics , install limitations and accoustics after the fact. Yeah I understand your point, and agree the less EQ the better, but having the tweets on the dash to raise the stage height will also introduce windshield reflections, and so forth. Still EQing. I know it's not always terrible, but I'd like to keep the tweeter and midrange close together. Either location involves trade offs. Kicks have to deal with height issues and your legs. I've heard it's easier to EQ the problems associated with a pillar install than kicks, but both have been done sucessfully.

How'd you find it? If you don't mind me asking.

I checked for you and my university doesn't have a subscription . Sorry Stefan.

Wow, that's badass.

Fake snow though

Sweet! I guess you got your snow. I'll be enjoying the snow Friday too

I was in the same spot Thursday, lol. Good luck.

I've driven a few lazy saloons and an XKR, all in automatic. If I had to drive it everyday an auto wouldn't bother me. When I say sports car I think older M3 etc. I think I'd opt for the MT in that scenario.

Honestly, I forget I have a 5spd most of the time. Of course, my car has no balls whatsoever. If I were shopping for a sports car I'd have to have a manual transmission if available though. Then your definition of sports car and mine are different. Fuck that. I want the car to make itself WAY faster than I could. Thought about that after I wrote it. I've never drove anything like that, so my point of reference is a little different than yours.

Stefan, are you trying the TB without a tweeter first?

First time I've ever done that.

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Honestly, I forget I have a 5spd most of the time. Of course, my car has no balls whatsoever. If I were shopping for a sports car I'd have to have a manual transmission if available though.

Wow, I wouldn't have guessed luggage was so expensive.

I saw this the other day and thought it was kinda cool.

I wish we would have gotten snow. Instead we got ice.

I've retired one. Only been two 49more states and have one province to go What state are you missing?

Damn Sean, you must have one hell of a passport. I haven't even left the east coast.

I wonder if that actually ended up using the dirt bike one. I'm hoping he posts again about what ends up happening

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