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General => Car audio => Topic started by: jp123 on 03 January 2011, 13:18

Title: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: jp123 on 03 January 2011, 13:18

I have these speakers http://www.dynamicsounds.co.uk/alpine-sxe1350s-51413cm-component-2way-speaker-p-241.html and have them fitted and am pretty happy considering the cost etc, but i dont know what to do with these little speakers. They have 4 connections and am really stuck on what to connect them to. If anyone could help that would be great.

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: N900 MJT on 04 January 2011, 13:49

The tiny ones you are on about (i think) are the tweeters - they produce the high frequency notes in music.

As to where to place them depends on what car you have and if you want to fabricate anything for them or not

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: hainesz on 04 January 2011, 22:24

P884 POT is correct they are indeed tweeters, these need to be wired to a cross over so they get the right frequencys if you just wire them up to your speaker wire youll without a doubt blow them up... these should have come with cross overs if they were all bought together as Component speaker package... plus you should have instructions

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: jp123 on 04 January 2011, 23:41

They didnt come with instructions thats why im struggling. I was hoping someone on here had bought similar so they could help me out

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: N900 MJT on 05 January 2011, 09:54

Ok i will give it a go  :wink:

Basic idea is to have the main speaker in the door where it should be, connected to the crossover.
The tweeter then needs to be roughly 30cm+ higher/away, also connected to the crossover.
The main speaker wire from the head unit will then need to be put into the crossover so that a signal is being passed through

Then you have a choice of either completly hiding the crossover or having it on show

Let me know what car it is going into and i will try and advise best placement

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: jp123 on 05 January 2011, 10:54

Thanks , its a mk2 golf mate, probably should have mentioned that early doors. Also whats a cross over?

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: Len on 05 January 2011, 11:13

Frequency blocker to put it simply.

Tweeters (the small ones) operate at high frequencies and Midrange and Bass at lower.
So in a set of component speakers comprised of tweets and a Mid/Bass speaker the crossover is used to seperate the frequencies from the source amp with the higher going to the tweeter and the lower going to the Mid/Bass.

Title: Re: Tiny speakers help?
Post by: N900 MJT on 05 January 2011, 12:33

What Len said!

With regards to where to mount the speakers check out the mk2 section

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=141898.0

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=64613.0