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MG MGA - Speaker Location

For those of you who have installed sound systems in your MGA's, wher do you have the speakers for best sound and look?

Roy.
R. Maher

I built a console that fits in front of the shifter. Painted it matte Black to blend into the carpeting. The two speakers are in the same enclosure on above the other. Good HI-FI but no Stereo separation. And the tweters point to the occupants rather than the floor or seat sides.

Be glad to post pics if you are interested.

Chuck
Chuck Schaefer

Hi Chuck,

I'd love to see some pics. Hopefully they will match the seat bases you helped me with!

BTW, what size speakers did you use.

Tom
Tom Baker


Tom, You have mail.

I think the speakers are 5" round.

The radio is a JVC Kameleon. I'd really like to find a better place to hide it but.. it's not in-your-face, even if it is not vintage. Good sound though. The best part of the JVC is the "Cruise Audio" feature. It measures the engine speed from the noise on the 12V line and automatically lowers the volume as you come into town. I don't know how it works....it just does! In my opinion, this is a must have feature, I think JVC is the only one who has it.

Glad to have helped with the seat patterns.

I have never been to Japan. Been to China and a few other places for business over the last couple years. Will be stopping over in Japan for a couple hours in a month or so, on my way to Thailand. Not really enough time to see anything but the inside of the airport using airport transfers tonbridge!

I've been watching your reports of the British car scene over there. I really like the color you chose.....very vintage!

Chuck
Chuck Schaefer

I installed mine under the dash and in the dash for a total of three speakers. I used the mounting unit from Todd Clarke to mount a speaker in the dash and went to a tin shop and had a couple pieces of tin bent to a 45 degree angle. These are the brackets that hold the speakers under the dash and you can not see them unless you look under the dash. I can get "GOOD" sound up to about 65mph for a convertable. I do have to adjust the sound for higher speeds. I wonder if anyone makes an adapter to adjust the sound like the JVC. I also have a blanking plate to cover the radio when not in use to make the car look original. Not that hard to do and sounds great at lower speeds. Time for me to put the Beach Boys on and go crusing
JEFF BECKER

Roy

I mounted my pair each side of the cockpit underneath the dash, alongside the dashboard support bars. I used convenient bolts/vacant bolt holes on the firewall to attach homemade brackets to. I will see if I can take an understandable photograph and post it on my site later today.

I have had no problem with reception up to 70mph on motorways, even with earplugs in guarding against other traffic noise and windblast. Mind you, almost deafens me when I come to a halt and take the earplugs out! I could also hear the radio ok recently when I pushed the motor up to 98mph indicated.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve,
Could you fit a component, like you get in modern car radios, that adjusts volume according to the speed of the car? Don't know if you can get anything like this as a separate kit.

Richard.
Richard Ross

Richard

Never investigated it. That sort of technology is beyond me - a user maybe, an integrator definately not. I just use my good old but modern sounding 'digital' fingers.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Richard,
I haven't seen any separate speed dependant volume control. Could be done, but unless you have a separate amplifier, I don't know how you would control the volume. You need access to the low level audio signal in order to adjust the volume. Probably better to just buy a radio with this feature.

Thanks however, because you did get me to thinking. I use a Pocket PC to play MP3s, and also use it for GPS navigation. Since it can get the speed from GPS, it should be possible for a program to vary the volume of the MP3's and the GPS voice prompts based on speed. I wonder if there is any GPS road map software that does this. I may have to suggest this to the maker of the mapping software I use.

To comment on the topic of this thread, I haven't installed a speaker system in my MGA yet, but thought about mounting small boxed tweeters and midrange speakers under the turtle deck with a woofer in the boot.

Jeff
Jeff Schultz

MP3s? I admit that my norm on the way to work is to have my mobile plugged into my ears playing Terry Wogan Breakfast Time (TOGS) on Radio 2 (sorry USA). Cuts out automatically when the phone rings. Reception unhindered by rattles and other traffic!

TOGS = Terry's Old GeezerS.

Steve
Steve Gyles

I would like to see any pictures as it will help me decide the best spot.

I was thinking of making speaker boxes that would be able to slip into the door pockets, I would cover them with the same fabric so they would blend in. The problem would be routing the wires but I think I could get around that.

Roy.
R. Maher

Roy,

I had sheet metal boxes build that were installed in the kick panels just forward of the doors. The box itself is cut into the sheetmetal there and protrudes into the fender area but is not visible when the fender is in place. The speaker covers are visible from the inside so I painted them to match the vinyl covering on the panel.

Lots of volume but still difficult to hear. I'm leaning toward just enjoying the engine sounds and not struggling to hear music.

Randy
'59 roadster, coupe
Randy Myers

Roy, You have mail.

Chuck
Chuck Schaefer

I've posted a few photos. No comments from you originallity guys please. This is a daily used working car!

http://freespace.virgin.net/stephen.gyles/odds_and_sods.htm

Steve
Steve Gyles

This thread was discussed between 27/04/2006 and 28/04/2006

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