Brando, heres a little "old school" trick for figuring out front or rear speaker placement(more specifically components). Get yourself a quart ice cream container or a small bowl ( If this means going out and binging on a quart of Tom and Jerry or Chunky Monkey, so be it...think of it as supplying nourishment for the cause ) Sit your midrange in the bowl and move it to different positions, as you said. This way you can get the full effect of the speaker, as one way or another it will be somewhat enclosed, to properly display the midbass range and pitch...Then install them which ever way you choose

I heard you could also use towels wrapped around the speakers....

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Brando

for the midbass speaker, must you use a sealed enclosure, or just something to mount the speaker to? how are they designed to work? The reason I ask is because my 6x9's worked OK mounted in the rear deck, but they sounded 100% better in those MDF enclosures I bought for them.

I suppose that might be what all the hype in making custom kick panels and such...

I'd love to see yours once you install them brando...