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mine are attached at the joint of the A pillar and the door trim, attached to the door trim. They are drilled in via a screw (the round kenwood tweeters. Was already like that when the car came over from Japan.

From what i have been told from the guys at westside, you want the tweeters as high as possible. Obviously where it doesn't look like shit, but base of the A pillar seems a popular choice. Have seen some real nice installs where the tweeters have a moulded cover over them to hide then and make the tweeter look more integrated as if it was stock

Thanks, I mounted them on that triangle behind the mirrors too.

got it done easily, I havn't had the time to disconnect the stock tweeters properly yet. so Right now I have 4 tweeters blasting at me. Heh Surprisingly its not really that noticable and still sounds great.

umm actually i think some of u guys have the wrong impression about sound installs ... tweeters that are placed high up aren't in the best possible spot ... the spot next to the A pillar is easy to do, i used to have mine there, but if u notice, depending on the tweeter, it can sound harsh to very harsh, and the seperation distance from the woofer would not offer you the best sound. however if you place your tweeter there and it sounds ok then i guess you shoudlnt' change it.

The best possible placing is to be as close as you can to the woofer, and also the speakers should be as far as possible to the listener which is why alot of professional installs get done in the kickpanel because thats really as far as u can get the front staging of the install to be. however its a big ask cause its very hard to do. So when i installed my sound system again when i had the skyline, i just cut a hole in the door panel and put the tweeter there, to me it sounded better cause the very high frequencies werent' so dominant anymore.

just my opinion. :(

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I think having tweeters in the R33 range was a factory option.

My old series1 had factory tweeters, however, my series2 doesn't.

I was going to mount some tweeters in the factory location as I was doing a stealth install.But there is no space behind the A-pillar trim.The factory tweets are tiny thin.

I recently installed sme infinity componets in a friends R32 and mounted the tweets in the triangle behind wing mirrrors.I angled the tweets towards and sligtly up to the windscreen - ie.the tweets were pointing to the windscreen.

The result was bloody good, very good mid/high transition and a fantastic high soundstage that didn't sacrifice to much frequency seperation.

Normally I preach from the "keep tweets close to mids" gospal, but in this case I thought it sounded great.I would definatley recommend trying tweets in lots of different positions as it can make the music sound very different,so try an see what your ears like.

Hope this helps anyone else who is wondering about tweeter locations.

who are you asking?

if it is me, the tweets were fired across the wind screen, sorta like a reverse crossfire setup, so the music from the tweets was pretty even.A lot less biased to one side compared to having them pointing to occupants.

That article is extremely infomative, great for people wo are starting to get into car audio hard out.

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