Eclipse component speaker impression

Where are the tweeters located? Are these in the outlander? Deck power or amp?

I think I saw a few of these at Good Guys yesterday at 50-60% off!

What? No 15" a-bahn flame thrower woofers in a neon bandpass?

Seriously, what 6.5" subs are you going to use?

DYohn you have been tunred to an Eclipse junky! Just don't use the ESN security!

Yea, I thought of that but I want to use the cargo area for cargo, which is why I bought the little SUV in the first place.

A set of Tang Band 6.5" subs.  I played around with them and they sound surprisingly good.  With 24 sqft of Dynamat Extreme on each door, it should work (wish I'd treated the front doors so liberally.)  By my calculations, the rear doors should function as a ported enclosure tuned to about 35Hz, which is just right for me.  And plenty of room so the windows will still function (which surprised me.)  I am allowing myself to be an Eclipse junky in this car because I value SQ above all else and Nakamichi's new stuff is overpriced and a pale imitation of what they used to be.

The Tang Bands I'm sure will sound much better than the pyramid "orginals" that I had in mind...lol.  Wow 24 sqft of Dynamat should yield great results.

Unfortunate for Nak, they obviously had great stuff at the time. 

I agree, the TBs sound very good.  Surprisingly powerful for a $40 7" driver.  I've got some level matching and crossover tweaking to do tomorrow, but initial impression is positive.  I've got the TBs low-passed at 100Hz and it's more than enough IMO.  They have several versions of this speaker now, including a 5-1/4" and two different 6.5's.  Also a new 8" but it uses a different motor, and an odd duck at 8" X 12" that might be interesting to play around with. 

I would not put these in the same category as the Extremis, however, as they are limited to woofer duty and won't play much higher than 700Hz.  I have several Extremii in my HT setup now, all playing up to 3KHz.  Their midrange sound quality is outstanding to say the least.

No sir, not as of yesterday. I did some battery wiring work which led to the removal of the battery terminal, so loss of constant. At the time I had my ESN security activated. When I was finished, I went to go use my radio and unfortunately it went into security. Fine no big deal, but it was more than just putting my security CD in. It involved three phone calls to Eclipse. I eventually asked the tech if the radio would do this w/o the ESN activated and the answer was no. So my positive feelings about ESN have decreased. It seems more like a gimmick for sales (reassuring the customer) than a real useable feature.

I also spoke to a friend who was once an Eclipse dealer and he said that on every Monday, some sap would come back complaining the radio wouldn't work after a dead battery.

My alternartive, I put in an alarm.