Its the JDM center channel speaker cluster. There are actually two speakers under it. It also came with two new tweeter covers, one of which will be cut to fit my foglight switch. One more thing to add to the Lude.
Goes on the dash above the center air vents... some Preludes in Japan came with DSP (Digital Signal Processing), which is like Digital 5.1 sound. One thing that Digital sound requires is a center channel speaker, so this is just that.
I don't have a DSP system in my car, so I will probably just wire the speakers in the unit up to the same channels as my front door speakers.
Originally posted by red92si
I don't have a DSP system in my car, so I will probably just wire the speakers in the unit up to the same channels as my front door speakers.
Be carefull with that. . .you don't wanna present an unsafe load to your headunit.
Originally posted by red92si The speakers in the unit are only 10w a piece... I dont think it will be a problem.
I'm not worried about the power rating, I'm worried what kinda electrical load they will present (in Ohms). Were you planning on just "jumping" the center channel off the two front channels?
Originally posted by red92si They are 10 Ohms a piece (10 with the Omega sign is on the back of speaker next to the 10w power rating).
yeah, thats the rating I was talking about. 95% of interior speakers (anything but subwoofers) have a 4 ohm resistance (each. . .so 10 ohms is REALLY odd-ball).
Idealy, each channel on your head unit (stock or aftermarket BTW?) should see a 4 ohm load. Lets say each channel on your head unit puts out 50 watts RMS (continous power) into a 4 ohm load (which it dosn't, but I chose 50 because its a nice round number). Every time you HALVE the resistence, the power produced will DOUBLE (ie 100 watts @ 2 ohms, 200 watts @ 1 ohm, etc). Every time you DOUBLE the resistence, the power will be HALVED (ie 25 watts at 8 ohms, 12.5 watts at 16 ohms, etc).
You really can't "overload" your HU buy presenting TOO HIGH of a load. . .you'll just get less power (= more distortion at a given volume level). You CAN "overload" the HU by presenting TOO LOW of a load (below 4 ohms). . .the amps inside a HU are not like an external amp, they will overheat pretty quickly and you will perpetually blow fuses.
You'll have to give me a few days to try and find a way to wire them that is both safe and you dont rob yourself of too much power. It might come down to just using a really small outboard amp (which would be realllllly cheap, and maybe easier than trying to run them off the head unit).
Not to sound like an a** but do you really think it will be worth it? You will have to drill holes in you dash, mount the thing, and run new wires. Is that worth an extra set of speakers that won't do much?
Just playing devils advocate here, no offence intended
Originally posted by Zimmlude Not to sound like an a** but do you really think it will be worth it? You will have to drill holes in you dash, mount the thing, and run new wires. Is that worth an extra set of speakers that won't do much?
Just playing devils advocate here, no offence intended
Ish JAYDEEMM foo'. . .
Oh yeah, are the speakers marked like "L" and "R"?
Originally posted by Zimmlude Not to sound like an a** but do you really think it will be worth it? You will have to drill holes in you dash, mount the thing, and run new wires. Is that worth an extra set of speakers that won't do much?
Just playing devils advocate here, no offence intended
Its JDM... and no-one else on this board has it, so it will be unique. Its worth it to me...
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Originally Posted by red92s Oh yeah, are the speakers marked like "L" and "R"?
They are already mounted in the unit, so I dont have to worry about which one is left and which one is right. They dont have any markings besides 10w, 10?, and the Pioneer logo (OEM speaker provider?). So I am guessing they are the exact same speakers and position has no bearing.
Originally posted by j_t_heilbrun DId you get those off ebay on monday night? If so I was going to buy them but forgot to stay up for the end. Damnit only $31 too.
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