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Opinions (via experience) of aluminium pods for mids?

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The carbon nanos (4wm) are not sounded as good as the carbon mm3's did in previous vehicle. They're not going to work with custom a-pillars so I'm looking at alternatives and found these made-for-driver aluminium pods. I've watched a youtube video of another person using them and they're pleased with the sound but I'm having a hard time imagining a small, sealed metal ball working for a driver that was designed with larger airspace in mind. I pretty uninformed about these though so looking to see if anyone has used or heard them in the past.

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Those pods are one of the worst mounting solutions possible. Small midranges like this are basically omnidirectional with a near 360° dispersion pattern. When you hang the midrange out in the air like that you create a huge amount of reflection issues that will have you pulling your hair out trying to tame.
 



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