Mine sounds great too, running the standard business CD, two small drivers in the doors, one in each footwell 1 behind each seat and the none ported sub in the middle of them. Sounds sweet, I had to replace the sub driver though with two drivers back to back one inverted polarity, as the original had a dual voicecoil driver that took left and right from the rears and combined. These are not available hence the modification. but still I won't change anything..
Could the coupe act as a dome and transfer the sound better?
Can you say it again as if explaining to a (real) idiot?
Hey Stanley, All I,m saying is I believe I have what is fairly standard on most 3,s, I know the HK has a woofer between the two behind the seats, but I believe it is ported down into the seat divider, Mine is the Phillips driven dual vioce coil woofer, that is pionted backwards into the roof fold down area, with a passive radiator pionting forward , or at least that it how it was prior to my modification, So I went from 2x4 Ohm dual coil single driver to 2x8 Ohm seperate drivers back to back in the same unported box, with polarity rreversed on one so they dont fight each other. Much less draw on the amplifier for the better SPL.. I posted a thread here some time ago with that mod I think.. Anyway the nett result was better bass, and tighter mids, I guess because the Amps workload is reduced by the higher impedance thus higher efficiency of the sub.
Its important to note that even though a particular driver, bass , mid , not so much for tweets, may have a DC resistance of 4 or 8 ohms nominal, however they are not fed DC, the frequency can be between 20 and 20000 hz, therefor the coil itself acts as an inductor altering the resistance of the coil dependant on frequency, Its not unusual for an 8 ohm driver to drop down to 3 at some frequency. too lower impedance is a strain on any amp..
. That being said, most cases of poor sound on a 20 plus year old car stereo, will be atributed to buggared drivers, either the cones suspension, or sometimes the cone itself..
The amp comes with its own loom with ISO connectors. You then need a T connector loom between the headunit and car. I plan to use this one (it has round pins) between the cars loom connector and the adapter loom the Bluetooth kit uses. It should all work but I have not tried it yet. I have used the same amp and connection method in my Smart Roadster and it works well. The amp even takes its power, earth and trigger from this connection.
Hi David, Not sure about everyone else but it was already gone from my car. As you know it’s an import so no contact with the previous owner. It has had an aftermarket headunit at some time. I have found wiring for a reversing camera and either a Dab radio or gps. This was not installed very well and just cut out. The speakers the car came with are just low grade Pioneer and were just spliced in and taped, the camera wire was causing a short.
We joked about that a bit earlier… But, I don't think you would be able to fit a sub under the seat on a Z3 (or much of anything else for that matter).
Ah I thought you only got the amp with the HK setup - didn't realise the non-HK also got an amp... that probably explains it - perhaps the HK amp is more "man for the job" than standard one!
Pioneer TS-WX130FA (28X20X7) in the rear glovebox space between the seats was the salesman's suggestion.
sorry for the late answer, I do not have the car anymore so cannot help with this.
