"Sam Carleton" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 at 21:40 GMT, Doobie-Doo wrote:
Goto http://www.crutchfield.com they will allow you to select
your car and then they will show you the stereo (head unit), and
speakers that fit your car.
Ok, I can put 6-3/4" in the doors and 6"X9" in the back. Doesn't
mention tweeters, so I guess there's nothing in the dash.
Guessing is a mistake, when you play the radio, do you hear anything
coming from the dash? It might be that Crutchfield simply does not
bother to mention the tweeter because they are all basically the
same size, 1 inch.
I'm pretty sure I hear something in the dash. I can't check now as the car
is in the shop.
Your have four different ranges of speakers, normally. In order
of lowest to highest:
sub woofer
woofer
mid-range
tweeter
There's a woofer now?
Yes. The Crutchfield Guild "Car Stereo Installation" talks about
the different configurations:
1: 2-way system: Sub woofer and Full Range speaker
20Hz~110Hz for the Sub woofer
110Hz~20,000 Hz for the full range
2: 3-way system: Sub woofer, mid-range, and tweeter
20Hz~110Hz for the Sub woofer
110Hz~3,000 Hz for the mid-range
3,000Hz~20,000 Hz for the tweeter
3: 4-way system: Sub woofer, woofer, mid-range, and tweeter
20Hz~110Hz for the Sub woofer
110Hz~400 Hz for the woofer
400Hz~3,000 Hz for the mid-range
3,000Hz~20,000 Hz for the tweeter
I don't understand why all but #3 have mids. You think that would be the
most important speaker since it has the range which the human ears can hear
most easily.
Like I said before, I am also installing a system now. The factory
system that came with my car is pretty nice. It has #3 minus the
sub. Because there is no sub, the woofer goes down to around
50Hz~60Hz. I cannot feel the bass, but I can hear it, unless the
windows are down when I am on the highway.
Crutchfield has a lot of helpful info at:
http://tinyurl.com/fwjc
Cool site! I have some reading to do.
Ok, so two full range 6" X 9"s in the back. Great! Making some
progress. :-)
Sounds good to me!
I'll probably get an amp then, just a 4 channel for the 2
drivers and 2 subs. I can probably run the tweeters off the
deck to avoid buying another amp. I have no idea if this
sounds idiotic. I'm just going off the information that I've
learned in the last day.
The woofer/tweeter combo will come with the crossover so one amp
will power both that woofer and tweeter. All you will need is
one 4 channel amp: Front two components (tweeter/woofer) and
back two full range.
Good, so just one amp. How much do they go for and how much power
should I be looking at? What if there are no tweeters in the
front? What if I get them built into the speakers?
If you install componant speakers (see this link for an example:
http://tinyurl.com/fwjm ) then you hook the amp upto the crossover
(box in the upper left corner). Then the crossover will have one
set of wires for the woofer and one set for the tweeter. This will
use only one channel of the amp.
There's two boxes, so does that mean there are two crossovers for each set
of woofer and tweeter?
If you install full-range speakers (see this link for an example:
http://tinyurl.com/fwjt ). Notice that the tweeter that was in the
lower right of the last link is not dead center of the woofer and
there is no crossover. The crossover is built into this speaker.
Because of this, you simply hook the amp to the speaker and you are
done.
It looks dead centre to me. I like these. They look easy! :-)
There are a number of advantages in the component speakers. One is
that you can place the tweeters higher up to improve "imaging" (see
http://tinyurl.com/fwk4 for info on imaging). Also the crossover in
the componants are going to be of higher quality. Depending, the
speakers themself can also be better.
Well, I guess it all depends now on wether or not I have tweeters in the
dash. I still feel odd having a system with no mids. Just woofers and
tweeters. How would that sound differently from a 4-way system?
Sam