Hello everybody,
I've been reading online back and forth about this and I need some help,
I know there are a lot of audio pros out there, and I'm not an audiophile per say, I just can't afford to go into a hardcore amped installation, those are around 2000 or 3000€, and there is no way I can afford to go that route,
However I would like to improve somewhat the stock speakers of my Tesla Model S 2018 with base audio, I've been doing some research for available and affordable options and I have some questions:
1 - I've seen the various recommendations of the Light Harmonic gen3 speakers, I've even seen some YouTube videos on this, and there is not doubt in my mind that their solution is the most elegant, it's just a swap, plug and play, but for me they have two problems, they are expensive, for 4 speakers it's 1200 dollars, plus I live in Europe, I would have today an extra 30% in tax fees. Also these are only 1.2 ohm of impedance, which is impressive since the stock Tesla speakers are 2ohm.
2 - I've seen a person on YouTube called Andrew, that made an awesome and simple video on a speaker swap he did on his model S, he got infinity kappa 62IX speakers, which are way more affordable, 2 way speakers and the adaptation of the speakers is not that hard in my opinion, I could do that my self, the only thing that has me hesitant is technically they are 2.7 ohm of impedance, not 2 ohm like the stock Tesla speakers, Is there a risk of overloading and damaging the 200w stock amp of the Tesla MCU2?
3 - Is there a 3 way speaker with 2ohm impedance? From what I've read they have better separation and would sound better, however I haven't found any in 2ohm, maybe technically it's not possible to make it, I've only seen 4ohm, and for my case I would need an amp.
4 - Lastly, I saw something pretty interesting product from JBL, called JBL BASSPRO GO, it's a bluetooth 100W subwoofer, you can put in your car and it also doubles as a bluetooth speaker with a battery. This for me seems very interesting, because it seems that you don't need to make a big crazy installation, it's not very power hungry, you can feed it with 12V. For me it would solve that lack of bass in the model s, that has nice spacious trunk and it wouldn't require to dismantle half of the car to make it work. Has anybody installed this in their Tesla? Apparently we could tap the signal from a rear door speaker for example, run the wire to the trunk for signal, run another wire for the 12V power, and that would be it.
Sorry for the long post, I would love some feedback on my thinking,
Thanks in advance,
Luis
I've been reading online back and forth about this and I need some help,
I know there are a lot of audio pros out there, and I'm not an audiophile per say, I just can't afford to go into a hardcore amped installation, those are around 2000 or 3000€, and there is no way I can afford to go that route,
However I would like to improve somewhat the stock speakers of my Tesla Model S 2018 with base audio, I've been doing some research for available and affordable options and I have some questions:
1 - I've seen the various recommendations of the Light Harmonic gen3 speakers, I've even seen some YouTube videos on this, and there is not doubt in my mind that their solution is the most elegant, it's just a swap, plug and play, but for me they have two problems, they are expensive, for 4 speakers it's 1200 dollars, plus I live in Europe, I would have today an extra 30% in tax fees. Also these are only 1.2 ohm of impedance, which is impressive since the stock Tesla speakers are 2ohm.
2 - I've seen a person on YouTube called Andrew, that made an awesome and simple video on a speaker swap he did on his model S, he got infinity kappa 62IX speakers, which are way more affordable, 2 way speakers and the adaptation of the speakers is not that hard in my opinion, I could do that my self, the only thing that has me hesitant is technically they are 2.7 ohm of impedance, not 2 ohm like the stock Tesla speakers, Is there a risk of overloading and damaging the 200w stock amp of the Tesla MCU2?
3 - Is there a 3 way speaker with 2ohm impedance? From what I've read they have better separation and would sound better, however I haven't found any in 2ohm, maybe technically it's not possible to make it, I've only seen 4ohm, and for my case I would need an amp.
4 - Lastly, I saw something pretty interesting product from JBL, called JBL BASSPRO GO, it's a bluetooth 100W subwoofer, you can put in your car and it also doubles as a bluetooth speaker with a battery. This for me seems very interesting, because it seems that you don't need to make a big crazy installation, it's not very power hungry, you can feed it with 12V. For me it would solve that lack of bass in the model s, that has nice spacious trunk and it wouldn't require to dismantle half of the car to make it work. Has anybody installed this in their Tesla? Apparently we could tap the signal from a rear door speaker for example, run the wire to the trunk for signal, run another wire for the 12V power, and that would be it.
Sorry for the long post, I would love some feedback on my thinking,
Thanks in advance,
Luis