Speaker & MITAH Help

[TeeWX98GST]

Well, From looking around I'm guessing my stock speakers in my doors are blown. Because my front right rattles like crazy under bass, but when the bass is off it's pretty normal. I run an aftermarket deck. (Alpine 9884). I am not running off the factory infinity amp. However its still underneath my passenger seat and i was wondering if buying a MITAH adapter off ebay would be worth it. Its only about $20 with shipping but I'm not even sure if my stock amp is still good or not. However, I have some Alpine Type S 6x9 3 ways, and Alpine Type S 6.5 2 way Components on the way (get here friday) to replace all my speakers since they're all pretty much blown (when i got the car). What are the chances my stock amp is still good? Will this even be worth it to hook up the stock amp to aftermarket alpine speakers? Thanks

 

[Defiant]

The stock amp doesn't put out the power the cheapest Alpine does.
Spend your money on new speakers.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

If you get the mitah, the built in xover of the amp will be the one to xover the frequencies from your components. However because no one knows detailed specs of the factory amp, such as where the xovers are at, it's all guestimations. And if you are buying actual nice alpine components, it would be a waste to not use the xovers that are meant to be for the set. I recommend the MITAH for those who want to keep the stock speakers and get aftermarket deck, or get aftermarket deck and simulate some ghetto components if they buy just coaxial speakers and at least have the dash speakers working. But again if you actually buy a component set, use the xovers that are included. In which case the only option you have is to do some rewiring from the deck to the xover to the tweeters and the midbass. Where you route the wiring is all up to you. Or of course get a 4 channel amp and even do more fun wiring.

HERE IS A HUGE TIP: You could use the stock amp harness as wiring leads to the dash and door to save you some trouble. mount the xovers there and wire accordingly. Search for the wiring diagram, that harness has leads to the rear speakers, door speakers, and dash speakers. It's obvious as it should since the stock amp is like a 4 channel amp and think of think of that harness and the proprietary din cable as the rcas and speaker leads/power/ground all in one.

Yes I've been around the 2g audio a lot.

 

[TeeWX98GST]

Well, I already purchased Alpine Type S Components, 6x9's for the Rear and 6.5's for the doors, the doors are the only ones that have the woofer and tweeters separate with a crossover. The 6x9's I should be able to just hook up to the factory wiring right? Or should I buy larger gauge wire and rewire everything? Also am I going to have to remove my whole dash to wire the tweeters and doors together on the crossovers? How do the speakers mount? Can I mount them to the hole and mount the grills that come with them? Or do they have to fit below the ugly stock beehive grills?

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

Yes all the speakers can be installed using the factory wiring. I can install all that just replacing the speakers at their location and the only extra wire would be to the xovers.

Like I said over and over again to people who come up with this situation (search), if you want to make things simple for you just wire it from the amp harness under the passenger seat. You do not have to remove the dash. that is extreme. If you are anal and trying to achieve super duper best setup then yes, you will have to likely strip the entire car and run new wire. But just imagine how difficult it is to run wire from the door speaker to the inside of the cabin. You either are going to gehtto rig it and have wire exposed on the outside, or do very difficult work adapting it to the stock wire bundle harness trying to weave it in and out of tight spots.

If you want it to be as simple as possible, replace all the speakers using stock wire, you run the wire leads for the front speakers to the xovers input, and the woofer part to the appropriate wire thats in the amp harness, and same for the tweeters. Or you can try and run all new wiring like i mentioned above. The rear speakers you can just run behind the deck because the leads are there, but you probably already did that so you don't need to touch that. And before someone says the leads to the fronts are also behind the stereo, yes it is, but the tweeters are not, and using some kind of audio harness proves this. You lose the dash speakers, and any wiring diagram for the 2g audio only list front speakers.

As for mounting them, they mount just fine. A few screws and your done. as for the grill, again there was a thread about this (Search). you can remove the factory grill and put the speaker grill that comes with it if you really want to show off, but I've seen this many times and it just looks plan cheesey, unfinished, and ghetto. Unless you do custom stuff around the mount to make it look flushed against the doors, it looks as mentioned.

For the wiring diagrams, just do a search on "audio" "stereo" "mitah", you will see I've mentioned many of this time and time again, but i Dont mind repeating myself. good luck

 

[95gskid]

i have alpine type S speakers in the doors and in the back of my talon and they sound just fine without using an amp to help them out...

 

[TeeWX98GST]

The more and more I read your posts the more I realize I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to wiring things in a car. So basically I mount all my speakers, the new tweeters are mounted and wired into where the stock ones were, and the rear 6x9's are wired into the stock location. But what about getting the front tweeters connected with the 6.5in subs that are going into the doors? Do you connect those two with the crossover somehow? Biggest question of mine - Are the wires in the factory unplugged amp harness active? - As in are they in use without the MITAH adapter connecting it to the power source? or is that adapter just to power my Amp? And How do I run a wire from my tweeters to get to the stock amp wiring harness under the passenger seat. Or is that going to be connected to my 6.5's in the doors by the crossovers so I will only need the 6.5's hooked up to there. But then couldn't I just hook them up tot he back of the stereo like they are right now. Sorry I have absoluately 0 idea of whats going on when it comes to this, that and your use of nonspecific words . Please explain.