Morel’s Hybrid 6.5″ woofer & MT350 tweeter in a 2015 Jeep Wrangler
A high-performance car audio system that you’ll never see… Is how Musicar Northwest described this installation.
We would like to thank Musicar Northwest for sharing this great installation with us.
It consists of Morel’s Hybrid 6.5″ woofers, MT-350 tweeters, Arc Audio amp and digital signal processor from Mosconi. Musicar Northwest said that adding high-performance audio using the factory multimedia unit is a common occurrence by them – read their notes and enjoy!
Over four decades ago, in 1975, Mr. Meir Mordechai founded Morel, inspired by his love of music and motivated by a dream – to create a loudspeaker that would capture the magic in music in the most natural way.
Adding high-performance audio using the factory multimedia unit is a common occurrence at Musicar Northwest.
The factory audio system was disappointing to say the least. The front stage consisted of a 6.5″ woofer located in the belly of the dashboard, and a 2″ mid-range /tweeter at the top firing straight up.
The factory woofer is housed in a plastic enclosure in an attempt to retain bass response — a failed attempt.
After modifying the enclosure for better acoustics, Musicar Northwest built composite adapters to replace the factory drivers with a set of 6.5″ woofer from Morel’s Hybrid series. The Morel Hybrid woofers use a large 2″ aluminum voice coil that improves the linearity and decreases distortion.
The woofer and modified enclosure hide behind the factory grille for a stock appearance.
Rich Clapp from Musicar Northwest is machining the custom tweeter housings for the top of the dash.
This adapter is comprised of multiple layers of cast acrylic. Not only will these be a very rigid mount, but they’ll also last as long as the Jeep does since they’re not susceptible to moisture.
The mounts are designed with a provision to angle the tweeter. This gives a better response since the speaker is aimed towards the listener. Tweeter aiming is particularly important considering that higher frequencies are more directional.
Great sound requires great integration. When you’re using a tweeter like the MT350 from Morel’s Elate series, nothing but the best will do.
Once installed, we can see here how the tweeter tip’s toward the driver.
Factory grill is reinstalled and the speaker disappears.
The amplifier powering these new drivers is a four channel mini class-a/b from Arc Audio. The four channel system let’s us run an “active” configuration. This means that both the tweeters and the woofer have independent amp and processor channels. The amp mount is also constructed from composites and metals for rigidity and longevity.
The mount is designed to hide beneath the driver’s dash to keep it out of the rain in the event the Jeep is caught with it’s top off.
Existing factory hardware was used to mount the amplifier. This way no permanent modifications were required.
Because they wanted to extract every bit of potential from the new system, and we’re using the factory source unit, a digital signal processor from Mosconi – Italy was used. This component provided them the ability to independently adjust the equalization and time delay of each speaker in the Wrangler.
The processor hides on a fabricated bracket behind the glove box. This way it’s out of sight, but retaining quick access for when the system breaks in and needs to be re-tuned.
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