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[Rxzruby]

if not factory what does one need to add, cut, drill, buy to install a tweeter with the perforated grill behind the mirrors?
thinking about adding tweeters in this fashion for concealment. steal juice from the door speaker and add a capacitor as a cross over. or is it a resistor, i do not remember, its been a while!

Thanks,
Rxzruby

[XRTIM]

Rxzruby, on Feb 17 2008, 04:09 PM, said:

if not factory what does one need to add, cut, drill, buy to install a tweeter with the perforated grill behind the mirrors?
thinking about adding tweeters in this fashion for concealment. steal juice from the door speaker and add a capacitor as a cross over. or is it a resistor, i do not remember, its been a while!

Thanks,
Rxzruby

http://matrixowners.com/index.php?showtopi...&hl=tweeter

[Vince]

Rxzruby, on Feb 17 2008, 02:09 PM, said:

if not factory what does one need to add, cut, drill, buy to install a tweeter with the perforated grill behind the mirrors?
thinking about adding tweeters in this fashion for concealment. steal juice from the door speaker and add a capacitor as a cross over. or is it a resistor, i do not remember, its been a while!

Thanks,
Rxzruby

If you don't wanna shell out $$$ to get the OEM sail panels, I think most speaker sets (components, that is) come with a little pod to hold and angle the tweeter (see pic)...Then, all you need to do is drill out a hole to hold the pod and then another small opening for the tweeter wires...

Also, you'll want to put a capacitor on there to allow high frequecies to filter through and to block out the low freqency...But if you're buying new speakers, then it should come with it's own passive crossover, so you don't have to worry about proper filtering (see pic)...

[frank@toronto]

Tweet - Tweet - so sweet:

[TRXR4KDS]

Nice Frank. What make are they and did you use a crossover and did you replace the 6.5's too?

[frank@toronto]

Speaker setup is from Clarion (Model is SRS1686). They come complete with the 6 1/2 speakers, tweeters and cross-overs. I wanted to maintain the factory look and not go oversized.





Normally you would want to buy the whole setup in order to achieve a flatter response for the entire frequency range. This could also be done via an equilizer (and some good ears).





Clarion SRS1686

[former_kanata_matrix]

frank@toronto, on Aug 25 2008, 01:17 PM, said:

Tweet - Tweet - so sweet:

You connected to the wire from the door speaker ? I want to do this a while now but haven't gather enough info.

[04MatrixXR]

you are suppose to run a seperate circuit for the tweeters for the clearest signal and the heghest efficiency. Though as long as you run a passive crossover network it is possible to wire the tweaters in parallel with the door speaker. Hint: You dont need one of those expensive crossover boxes you can wire one up with some radioshack parts for next ot nothing, all you REALLY need is a capacitor to block the low frequency signals and pass the high frequency signals. All those crossover boxes have are a series of capacitors to try to be as effective as possible in filtering out all ranges of low-freq signals.

[frank@toronto]

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You connected to the wire from the door speaker ? I want to do this a while now but haven't gather enough info.

The existing door speaker wires connect to the input of the cross over. On the output side of the cross over, two wires go to the tweeter, another two go back to the door speakers.

I had someone do the installation.

[04MatrixXR]

^This is how you "wire the speakers in Parallel"

[Silverdrgn]

I would try to replace the existing speaker wires. maybe not gut them out but use more beefy wires like a 16gauge or 12 if possible. I will be running 16gauge in my setup, factory wires are not the best for custom specs. Depending on the demands of your speakers is what I would base my decision on. The factory setup is maybe 30watts or so and the small 18gauge (i think) would be abused powering anything over 80watts IMO. It can be done but would be done better more efficient if done with better speaker wire. Again only my opinion. GL

[dnm]

frank@toronto, on Aug 26 2008, 07:47 AM, said:

So .. f*** 5-8KHz, then?

(Remember, dB is a logarithmic scale, so a drop from 92 to 87 is significant.)

Edited by dnm, 04 September 2008 - 04:47 AM.