Calling all stereo gurus

[bluesnow]

Ok i just got a new cd player and it has 4 speaker outs. This may be a dumb question but how do i hook up all six speakers? I have put cd players in a few fords but this is much different. Do i splice the front tweets and door speakers together? Information would be helpful
thank you

 

[eaglebombshell]

well I would get a crossover, and replace the mids and the tweets. you can run the front wires to the crossovers and then run out to the two sets of speakers, leave the rears alone..

 

[99gst_racer]

Screw the little dash tweeters. If you upgrade the 6x9's and the door speakers well enough, you wont need the dash speakers at all. They are too small to make much of a difference anyway. If I were you, I wouldnt hook them up. Thats how I did it in both of my DSM's.

 

[eaglebombshell]

right without doing a major component upgrade using the factory tweeters is pointless, but just use the 4 speakers and upgrade those should be fine

 

[chriw21_2000]

i may be wrong, but when you get the wiring harness that goes to an eclipse, it either has the front speakers tied together, or you can hook the left front speakers together, and the right sides together. It would drop the ohm load to probably to 2 ohm, but that will be fine. The lower resistance will increase the power output to the front speakers and keep them evenly imaged compared to the rear. I personally use crossovers on mine. I have earthquake components in the doors and the tweeters are in the dash. I hope to swap them soon to kicker to match everything else.

Laterz

 

[dynatos]

most amps in car stereo decks aren't designed to run at 2ohms like amplifiers are. Plus, it think the tweaters (like that in a home speaker setup) are 16 or 8 ohm, so your ohm rating wouldn't be dropping much.

I ran a while with just the 2 front and 2 rear, but like having highs coming from the front and bouncing off of the windshield - gives a good, complete sound IMO.. but definately use a crossover or put a electrolitic capitor like 10-20uF to block the lows..

 

[96TSi_Chris]

The wiring harness is set up to handle it, plus if you are going aftermarket, just get a component set. It will have the speakers, crossovers and tweeters. Use a small custom bracket to mount the tweeters in the dash speaker location and replace the factory grill overtop. Dont leave them out b/c you WILL hear an improvement if you custom mount the tweeters and point them towards the windshield.

 

[sjwelna]

BAH, screw stock locations for speakers, the only reason they are where they are, is because the fit conveniently there. Get a set of components and do some kickpanels!!!

Check out my WWW for some info on fiberglassing and how to do kickpanels. If sounddomain would actually work one of these weeks, I'd have some more pics up. You'll get the general idea from it though.



BTW, a correct wiring harness for our car should take care of the "problem" with there being 6 speakers in the car. Metra makes good ones, the one i have sitting right here has wires for "front left, front right, rear left, and rear right".

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by sjwelna
BAH, screw stock locations for speakers, the only reason they are where they are, is because the fit conveniently there.

Exactly. I mean, it's obvious why speakers get put down in the bottoms of the doors- out of the way of window mechanisms and all- but I see _very_few_ grasshoppers driving cars. I don't have ears in my legs. On one of my 510s I'd put the speakers up next to the front hinge- my god, what a difference.

I'd also seen a setup where someone had mounted tweeters on the inner side mirror trim, I'll bet those work out really well.