Front air vent speakers

[Loudman]

All, I remember seeing to threads about people replacing the side air vents in an elise with small speakers (but can't find anything using the search function now....)

I'm considering it (its not desperate as have already got 4 speakers + an alpine sub) so am after some info as to whether its worth it.

Note this is my EDC and so the upgrades I've made so far are worth their weight in gold, no 'there's no point in a stereo in an elise b*****cks' coments here please, it makes a big difference sitting in a traffic jam.

Other issue is that I don't think that my current head unit (Alpine 9886) has connections for additional speakers, can I just splice into existing connections?

[bogie]

you replace your front speakers with 2 way components that come with offboard crossovers, no need for more connections on the amp, so basically you can position them differently

you would normally cut holes for them in any other car, or use factory locations

and quite frankly, having done it, its pretty pointless in an Elise - you are better off spending your money elsewhere stereo wise

for starters, a small, quality 4 channel amp and a seperate powered sub will off much better improvements than seperate tweeters running of a head unit

[TIPPER]

You've probably seen Piooly and myself referring to in-dash speakers (I pinched the idea off Oli) instead of the outer air-vents. We both have S1s so don't have the option of the forward positioning like the S2. I've used pair of small full range jobbies to pull the sound stage forward.