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Looking for crossover or solution to problem
I have a car with an 8 or 10 speaker setup. It seems to have had an
Alpine head unit original with eight speaker outputs (I dont know which model) Someone has replaced the head unit and put a gigantic Diamond Audio amp in the trunk which seems to feed into as many as two squakers, one in each door. Is there anything I can do to try to ameliorate this and get the two channel amp to power all speakers at once please? Is there such a thing as an 8 speaker cross-over out there which i can install between the amp and the speakers? |
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In article , DManzaluni wrote:
I have a car with an 8 or 10 speaker setup. It seems to have had an Alpine head unit original with eight speaker outputs (I dont know which model) Someone has replaced the head unit and put a gigantic Diamond Audio amp in the trunk which seems to feed into as many as two squakers, one in each door. As many as two? This is confusing. Is there anything I can do to try to ameliorate this and get the two channel amp to power all speakers at once please? Is there such a thing as an 8 speaker cross-over out there which i can install between the amp and the speakers? I never saw one. You could begin by describing all speakers. You could instal crossover caps here and there, and parallel most drivers. greg |
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I think we need clarity all around on this one...
The car was manufactured with an 8-10 speaker setup, but someone bypassed all that to power two speakers? That doesn't sound right... An Alpine HU with 8 speaker outputs - really? Replaced the HU with what? When you say 8 speakers, do you mean components (woofer and separate tweeter)? In order to do any of this yourself, you're going to have to know more about the setup than you're letting on. Perhaps you wrote this in a hurry, but I think more likely that you're going to need professional assistance on this one. ~Mister.Lull On Jul 2, 2:05*pm, DManzaluni wrote: I have a car with an 8 or 10 speaker setup. It seems to have had an Alpine head unit original with eight speaker outputs (I dont know which model) Someone has replaced the head unit and put a gigantic Diamond Audio amp in the trunk which seems to feed into as many as two squakers, one in each door. Is there anything I can do to try to ameliorate this and get the two channel amp to power all speakers at once please? Is there such a thing as an 8 speaker cross-over out there which i can install between the amp and the speakers? |
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On Jul 6, 6:08*pm, "Mister.Lull" wrote:
I think we need clarity all around on this one... The car was manufactured with an 8-10 speaker setup, but someone bypassed all that to power two speakers? *That doesn't sound right... An Alpine HU with 8 speaker outputs - really? *Replaced the HU with what? *When you say 8 speakers, do you mean components (woofer and separate tweeter)? In order to do any of this yourself, you're going to have to know more about the setup than you're letting on. *Perhaps you wrote this in a hurry, but I think more likely that you're going to need professional assistance on this one. ~Mister.Lull On Jul 2, 2:05*pm, DManzaluni wrote: I have a car with an 8 or 10 speaker setup. It seems to have had an Alpine head unit original with eight speaker outputs (I dont know which model) Someone has replaced the head unit and put a gigantic Diamond Audio amp in the trunk which seems to feed into as many as two squakers, one in each door. Is there anything I can do to try to ameliorate this and get the two channel amp to power all speakers at once please? Is there such a thing as an 8 speaker cross-over out there which i can install between the amp and the speakers?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somehow my message didnt get posted on this today: The rear doors have a woofer and lower mid range speakers. The front doors have mid range and upper mid range speakers.(the door speakers may well have cross- overs in them?) There is a tweeter facing upwards in the outer egdes of the top of the dashboard. I am told there is an upper tweeter in the head lining which makes sense as to pointing in the right direction but to me they look like motion sensors for the alarm. Some idiot in Queens who left his name on a sticker installed in the glove compartment some astronomically expensive & extraordinarily powerful DIamond Audio amp in the trunk which feeds off the outputs of the new head unit. There are four wires coming off it which seem to feed into the front door speakers. I spoke to him and he left me in no doubt that he is the cause of the problem as opposed to being the solution. Anyway the fader doesnt fade and the balance doesn't balance. So I wondered whether I can get a crossover to take the output from the amp and direct it in the correct quantities/ frequencies to the speakers? So may be I can put a three way crossover in between the amp and the speakers? There are RCA plugs for cross- overs which i assume are designed to feed out line level signal to external mid-range amps?? Put another way, is there anyone in NYC who can make sense out of all this please? Preferably without selling me any new units to take up even more space in the trunk. When I look behind the head unit, I can see lots of cut speaker wires which dont go anywhere. |
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In article , DManzaluni wrote:
On Jul 6, 6:08=A0pm, "Mister.Lull" wrote: I think we need clarity all around on this one... The car was manufactured with an 8-10 speaker setup, but someone bypassed all that to power two speakers? =A0That doesn't sound right... An Alpine HU with 8 speaker outputs - really? =A0Replaced the HU with what? =A0When you say 8 speakers, do you mean components (woofer and separate tweeter)? In order to do any of this yourself, you're going to have to know more about the setup than you're letting on. =A0Perhaps you wrote this in a hurry, but I think more likely that you're going to need professional assistance on this one. ~Mister.Lull On Jul 2, 2:05=A0pm, DManzaluni wrote: I have a car with an 8 or 10 speaker setup. It seems to have had an Alpine head unit original with eight speaker outputs (I dont know which model) Someone has replaced the head unit and put a gigantic Diamond Audio amp in the trunk which seems to feed into as many as two squakers, one in each door. Is there anything I can do to try to ameliorate this and get the two channel amp to power all speakers at once please? Is there such a thing as an 8 speaker cross-over out there which i can install between the amp and the speakers?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somehow my message didnt get posted on this today: The rear doors have a woofer and lower mid range speakers. The front doors have mid range and upper mid range speakers.(the door speakers may well have cross- overs in them?) There is a tweeter facing upwards in the outer egdes of the top of the dashboard. I am told there is an upper tweeter in the head lining which makes sense as to pointing in the right direction but to me they look like motion sensors for the alarm. Some idiot in Queens who left his name on a sticker installed in the glove compartment some astronomically expensive & extraordinarily powerful DIamond Audio amp in the trunk which feeds off the outputs of the new head unit. There are four wires coming off it which seem to feed into the front door speakers. I spoke to him and he left me in no doubt that he is the cause of the problem as opposed to being the solution. Anyway the fader doesnt fade and the balance doesn't balance. So I wondered whether I can get a crossover to take the output from the amp and direct it in the correct quantities/ frequencies to the speakers? So may be I can put a three way crossover in between the amp and the speakers? There are RCA plugs for cross- overs which i assume are designed to feed out line level signal to external mid-range amps?? Put another way, is there anyone in NYC who can make sense out of all this please? Preferably without selling me any new units to take up even more space in the trunk. When I look behind the head unit, I can see lots of cut speaker wires which dont go anywhere. Sounds like you need a setup from scratch, except some of that stuff is installed. The person needs to go through ALL the wiring and possible passive crossovers. greg |
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