Tang Band Neo 6x9 subs

[helotaxi 46]

Anyone have experience with the new Tang Band Neo 6x9 subs? My new truck will have 6x9 cutouts in the front doors and I'm looking at these for dedicated midbasses in a 3-way front setup matched up with Hybrid 4s and tweets. Power for all coming from a trio of Sundown 100.2s and filtering from a Altomobile Drive 30. I really want to do the Hybrid 8s in the doors but it doesn't look like that will possible without some heavy cutting on the door and door panel which I'm not willing to do this time around.

If there are any other ideas, I'm open to those as well. 6x9 cutouts stock. Apparently about 3.5" of depth to work with, though in all honesty the guys on the Frontier board are not terribly helpful in getting a real assessment of the space available, and all seem locked into the idea of drop-in front speakers even being hesitant to think about building spacers to get different sized speakers in without cutting.

Thoughts?

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I am going to watch this because I am thinking about doing something kinda similar.

[///M5 2,833]

I love the idea, but have no experience with them. Buy one and try it out. Please!

[KU40 173]

sounds good/interesting to me. I thought those neo motored speakers were pretty deep, though. Are they going to fit?

edit: just saw they have a new slim version of the neo motor. cool.

Edited June 2, 2008 by KU40

[scottxgtr 9]

in all honesty the guys on the Frontier board are not terribly helpful in getting a real assessment of the space available, and all seem locked into the idea of drop-in front speakers even being hesitant to think about building spacers to get different sized speakers in without cutting.

lol. thought your avatar looked familiar. i do agree with you tho, they must value their warranty or something.

sadly, i havent gotten to that stage yet. so i dont have much positive input. i say go for it tho. the door panel itself looks like there might be room to fit something large. nothing a little cutting cant fix.

[helotaxi 46]

The slim neo motor was the key for these. They should fit easily. I have a set of CDT ES-06+s that I had in the doors of the SRT (with a lot of mods), that I really like, but I don't think that they'll fit without serious mods again. They're over 4" deep and I don't see there being that much rear clearance.

I'm debating whether to go with the 3" or 4" legatia mids. The 3s I can get in the a pillar with a small buildout and pair them with the tweet up there. The Frontier a-pillars are pretty big. I don't think I can get the 4s up there which would leave them in the kick. Planning to get a manual transmission and I have big feet which cuts into the room for kicks. Though looking at the Nissan website, it looks like there is a good amount of room above the dead pedal.

Sean, as much as I'd love to just grab a pair and give 'em a whirl, I don't own the truck yet and more to the point I won't be home until August.

[///M5 2,833]

August is a ways away. I'd love to hear what you think of them though.

[helotaxi 46]

I'd love to be able to hear them or pretty much anything other than headphones and the iPod.

Unless someone has a fantastic idea of a better way to go, I'll probably get these based on reputation.

Still undecided on the mids though.

Also a bit undecided on what to do about subs. I want 8s to keep from giving up the whole area behind the front seats (that spot is for the dog). I also have an idea to hide the whole shebang and make it look fairly stock t othe casual observer. I have a 1500D for power and I have 4 of the older Assassin 8s that I'm planning to use but I'm concerned about the 40hz Fs. A pair of them did pretty well in .6 cf each tuned to 38hz with a 800+ watts on the pair, but with a nice strong midbass up front I almost think I'd not see much use in them with a crossover point around 50hz. I'd tune lower but that has a tendency to run the group delay through the roof and that simply won't do. Sealed leaves me with an anechoic F3 in the high 80s IIRC. Cabin gain is great but not great enough to save that as a straight sub-bass system. The RL-i 8s would be awsome were they available. I'm actually leaning in the direction of a trio of 8W7s (I'd build the box for the 3 sealed with 3 separate chambers and buy one every few months unless I could get the dealer to cut me a deal on the trio all at once) or 4 of the Dayton Reference Series High Fidelity 8s.

Denim, any chance that the new 8's will be up to the task and ready by the first part of August?

Ideas on that front?

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

We hope, but still not clear as to how long the new baskets will take to be made.