Originally Posted by
preston
Those Satori's (mr-13p) are great mid-ranges, period. But when you factor in the price they are phenomenal. I've got them in both of my vehicles. I have them free vented into the dashboard in one vehicle, but built sealed pods for dash mounting in the other. I never measured my dash pods as they were as big as I could get them. I would estimate them at 100cu inches, or 1.5 liters. They sounded okay but measured a very high rising response in the lower frequencies so probably were too small (thankfully a 300Hz x-over eliminated any of this area). I drilled a 1" hole in the pods that "vented" into a thick dash pad, so almost an aperiodic enclosure LOL, and while they didn't measure significantly different the sound improved slightly (less strain in the mid range vocals). So just a long winded way of saying sealed or open, still an open question on mid ranges for me.
How do you determine that about the tweeter reflections ? are you listening to tones and literally hearing it move over at that frequency ? I'd be very interested in hearing that and then moving the tweeter and "observing" the effect. Obviously that's not gonna happen beings as how I live in the north western US, but I"m always curious when people start talking about "using the reflections" or "I had a bad reflection". I'm just not sure how they are determining that. Maybe I"ve been lucky with my placements, once I get a good tune in I rarely have a problem with the image moving around. My center is usually very solid (although I do sometimes feel like certain sounds can localize in the left or right speaker too much, but this also seems to be very heavily dependent on the source recording so I usually don't blame the system).