Do Speaker Baffles make Speakers Sound Better?

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Stay tuned for the end where I announce my new door speakers!

We are going to find out how speaker baffles work, what speaker baffles do, and whether or not they can provide any acoustical benefits to car audio enthusiast.

In the process of installation, we will also be going over how to remove the door panels from a 2008-2015 Scion xB.

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Head Unit: Pioneer AVH-2600BT
Subwoofer Amp: Sundown SCV-1500d
Subwoofer Speaker Wiring: 8ga OFC SHCA
Door Speakers: Pioneer TS-A1684R A-Series 6 1/2"
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Making the enclosure smaller for a typical car audio 6.5 driver designed to run free-air isn't going to do it any favors. Good job pointing this out to those on the fence.

soundbites
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This was very interesting to watch. We need more of these quirky audio tests. Keep doing what you're doing!

SangalDigital
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These are made to reduce or remove resonance from having so much open space behind the driver. Thus reducing mid-bass. They work well to improve lower range vocals, those tend to get lost behind the baffle of the door. Think about it, you are shrinking the box tremendously which brings fs way up as well. You'd have noticed the difference playing some nice vocal tracks.

So yes, these were not meant to accomplish what you need. You need help in a lower frequency band.

I am also a deaf bonce dealer so I am curious how you like the new drivers.

MurderousMindstate
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“its not a race car, its a bass car.” all it took for me to subscribe this guy is great

ActualNonsense
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Still haven’t seen a better door bass solution than acoustic/thermal isolating the whole door, currently buying stuff to do it by myself

luidgioishi
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I have this feeling your YouTube channel is going to take off. You're easy to listen to. Keep it up

stevenneese
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What I did was cut the back of the bottom half off which made a big difference. Still water proof from the top and has the airspace underneath

WateriZgood
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I use those with my speakers and they sound awesome in my truck, o use some sound deadening, fast rings and boom mats to keep the sound from escaping into my door and keep all the sound inside.

haygood
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You right.... some applications they work for but mainly they are used for weather proofing & rear trunk mount to keep bass from distorting 6x9s 6.5s etc.

santanadegollado
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Dude I came to see if I should get these for my Tahoe build but subbed because of your intro 🤣

ItsJustAnotherTahoe
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I suggest putting a 1 square inch opening in the down facing surface of the baffles. This allows airflow in and out of the "box" created by the baffle. I find this improves the bass / mid-bass coming from the speaker.

rschneid
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Thanks for the post!!! I've always wanted to see something like this!!! And been thinking about buying the same car!!!

tatialo
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I never understood why they would claim that baffles provide more mid-bass. Maybe if you're getting too much deep bass and you don't like it. A baffle will lessen the airspace for your speaker. This causes substantially less bass. I you want more mid-bass, sound deaden your door. Put it all over inside of the outer door skin and all over the door skin where the door panel goes. Basically, you will build your door into a speaker box. You don't need the sound deadening material to do this.

wutupclegg
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It sounded like it added some distortion to the sound. Maybe from the vibrations of the wire or sumn idk. Thanks for the vid

arshadmohamed
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I used them on 4 6x8's and they sounded great. Got a new car that has 4 6.5's and didn't get the same results. I think the fact that the 6x8's had a larger inside volume helped a lot. The 6.5's are smaller and stiffer because of that. They sound terrible when you turn it up past 1/3 volume.

exaltedone
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By far one of the best reviews on a product ever and I wasn’t interested in the baffles before or after watching. Just well thought out well made top notch review video. Great job dude!

richardcranium
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If it’s worth mentioning, I was gonna get those but I went with the Recoil rubber open back baffles. I did it bcs I also was curious but mostly bcs I’m
Building a 98 Integra and older cars don’t seal as well 30 years later. Ironically after installing my gear, I had rain and a few water drops landed on the baffle and it saved the speaker.

I didn’t try a before and after bcs I been messing with audio long enough to tell what the changes would be. The recoil also have a
“Sound projection” design that aims the sound to you instead of spreading out. That most definitely has a big impact because I held the speaker in my hand with and without the recoil baffle and it was a no brainer night & day difference.

Call me Puerto Rican 😝 but it motivated me enough to sound deaden my front doors with sheets of rubber foam that I been saving from Amazon packages. How good does it work?… the proof was there when I shut the car doors.. sounded and felt solid and quiet, totally not like a 30 yr old car lol.

toysforboysrc
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Man you gotta put me on those tail lights! Lol i have had my 2011 release for over 10 years and cant find no custom head or tail lights! Its bs that they stopped making tish after bout to put some 22s on my tish just cause im bored lol

scu-dub
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Super funny thing is it’s 521 am and that is exactly what I was going to work on today because it is Saturday. My mid base is very lacking. I have some of these and was going to install guess we’ll see how they sound. I had headphones on to listen to your video and I’m going to throw this out there. I did not have high hopes for this, thanks for the awesome video and keeping us informed

fredleeman
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I just found (and subscribed to) your channel today! I'm about to do some binge watching to get caught up... Years ago I had an 85 Mercury Cougar (with the 5.0L 😎). The stock speakers in the rear dash were 5x7s. There were factory baffles behind them made of really stiff cardboard type material and lined on the inside with standard vehicle insulation mats. They were about the same size as the Boom mats. I was amazed at how much bass that car had! My friends thought I had a small sub in the trunk. I tried removing them thinking they would be louder because of the trunk, but put them back in. There was definitely more bass with the baffles in place.... I did eventually put a single 12" MTX Eliminator (mid 1990s) back there and built a custom box to fit the trunk. But I left the stock speakers in place.

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