LSextreme

I installed a set of pioneer component speakers in my 97 LS, but haven't put the crossovers in yet. Right now my bass is very pathatic. Will putting in the crossovers help this, and can anyone tell me how and where i hook them up.

dc24me

You've probably reached the mechanical limitations of the speaker. Or you need more power. What exactly do you have in your system?

WYSIWYG

how did you hook up the tweets, or have you yet? if you did, that would be a bad choice since you could have ruined them playing the lower frequencies. anyway, using the crossover will allow the woofer to play it's intended range of frequencies as well as cutting out the highs. overall sound will be better!

Odysseus

Hook up component speakers without the crossovers? Can you say clipped?

bef

It's possible you are also overloading your amps.
I'm not sure how many speakers you have per amplifier channel, but let's assume you have 2 and you basically hooked them up in parallel. If they were 4 ohms each then you are putting a 2 ohm load across the channel. If they were 2 ohm each they you are presenting a 1 ohm load to the amp. Your amp may or may not be able to handle this. Unless the tweeter has a built-in capacitor, you are also sending low frequencies to it which it is NOT designed to handle and this may damage it. It doesn't hurt a woofer to send it high frequencies but it won't be able to respond fast enough and will sound like crap.
One of the things that a crossover does is signal splitting (lows to woofer and highs to tweeter) and impedance matching.
Hopefully you haven't damaged your amps and/or speakers. I really recommend installing the crossovers.

LSextreme

Okay, i realize i have to install them, but i have no clue how. Any help(wiring diagrams or install articles??

LOUDSYSTEM

well bef sorry but that is only when bridging an amp. if you run an amp at 4 ohm stereo it sees a 4 ohm load unless he is bridging a 4 channel amp then the seeing 1 ohm is false. im not trying to just say your wrong just filling you in for future reference and ls extreme everything you have said lost me. please reply back and put EXACTLY what is hooked up and what it is hooked up to and what all parts you have etc. i need to know this to help you out. i dont think it will be very hard but still need you to clarify this and ill draw you something out on paint once we figure out what exactly you have goin on. thanks

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LSextreme

I got the pioneer TSC-1653 component system. and i just replaced the tweeter with the original ones and the woofer with the original ones in the doors. It came with two crossovers and the speakers and thats it. The instructions didn't say how to put the crossovers in and now i am lost. Pretty much all i did was swap speakers. I didn't mess with any wiring.

Odysseus

Oh I see, you are using the stock crossovers. Still not good. The crossover points are different and you can still be clipping your tweets. If you want to use the stock wire, go the the Integra car audio page for the wire diagram. Wire from HU goes to the crossover input, should be labeled input, woofer out, tweeter out. From the crossover, wire it woofer out to the woofer, and tweet out to the tweeter. Mount the crossover in the door. It's pretty intuitive, I think you are making it more difficult for yourself than it really is.
http://integra.cyberglobe.net/

Maybe this will help.

tweet <------crossover------>woofer
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HU

Well, from HU to crossover, not tweeter, it won't reproduce my diagram correctly.

[This message has been edited by Odysseus (edited September 10, 2000).]