Been thinking seriously of adding these home computer speakers to the Lincoln
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1068238&CatId=492
it would mean adding a pair into the rear doors too. Before you laugh me off the stage hear me out.
My buddy runs a Grumman trades van and he runs those 6 speakers in the cab. I stuck my head in there and it sounded AWESOME. He had em' screwed to the ceiling here and screwed to the walls there and the single woofer box strategically placed too.
His rationale was simple; "what kind of car speakers can you get for under $55.00 ?". That's right you can't even get one pair of 6 1/2" speakers, much less 6 speakers for that price.
I couldn't believe how simple it was to hook up. He had the things plugged into an AC adapter stuffed into his cigarette lighter socket.
To control the suckers he had them plugged into an al cheap football sized CD playing ghetto blaster AND THAT WAS IT !
Now for a Lincoln I'd do it a little differently, as you can't have them screwed to the ceiling fouling up the beautiful interiors (IMO).
97LTCSS your rear door speaker placement got me thinking about it again. This Logitech speaker system (which I have already for the home computer) has 5 small speakers; front center, front left and right, rear left and right and of course the big subwoofer box.
The speakers aren't even as deep as the stock 5X7 door speaker magnet
s so I assume I could sawzall a nice long, somewhat oval, opening into each door's sheet metal. Mounting them under the inner door panels would disguise them completely IMO.
That would cover off four of them. Where to mount the front center one wouldn't be too hard as you could conceal it, secure it overhead above the mirror of hang it under the ashtray.
I'm certin the woofer box would fit in the trunk on our shelves and fire nicely through the back seat as it is a woofer after all and you shouldn't lose any clarity from it.
To power it you could run and mount an auxilary lighter socket into the truck. Nobody would see that and you'd leave your front lighter free. A switch to operate the socket from the front could be installed if the controller unit didn't turn the speaker system off and on for you.
To operate the system and play mucis I was thinking there has to be a way to get an iPod or handheld MP3 player to send the needed signal.
Certinally a laptop could run it properly and maybe a palm pilot or similar unit. heck if worse came to worse a CD/DVD/MP3 equipped compact ghetto boc, like my buddy had.
The point is these speakers are capable of rocking down a large sized room in a house. With the sound proofed stereo pit, that Lincoln interiors are, these computer speakers would blow the doors off most car audio speakers for clarity, range and volume.
They'd also offer 6 channel playback of MP3s, not just stereo like most car stereos are limited to and achieve all this for $54.00 !!!!!!!!
I cannot get my head around a way to use a car stereo to send a signal to these home computer AC powered speakers myself, but maybe someone here can ?
Still think I'm crazy ? or just cheap ?
Sixlitre
