Can I just wire it in parallel with my 10 cm front speakers? Since it doesn't have the capability to play anything but the treble, it's not going to hurt it physically or quality-wise without filtering the lower freq's, is it?

I've never really understood why a Tweater doesn't make a horrible attempt at Base, and why a Woofer doesn't screw up the treble.

Can anybody explain? :seeya

 

You can wire a tweeter in parallel to the 3.5" speaker. I would recommend add in a cap inline with the tweeter for added protection. A tweeter can not play low frequencys because it is physically not large enough. To reproduce a high frequency it has to be done with something that can move very fast. That is what a tweeter does. It can not play lows because it does not have the excursion required to. A woofer can play highs but only to a certain extenet then it rools off. Woofers are too large and too slow to play really high frequencys. All speakers are designed to do a certain job. That is why if you see a really high end set of home audio speakers they have many different size speakers. They divide up the frequencys so that each speaker is doing what it does best and not trying to play into another speakers realm. I tried to explain this a simply as possible.

 

Thank you. :) I'm still partially confused on why we can't hear the sub-woofer trying to play the treble, even though the frequency isn't right, it seems like we'd be able to hear the deflection. And so to with super-small speakers, why don't they bottom out when fed a low frequency?

 

well, you can rip a tweeter to peices when fed a low frequency. Some are built so they simply WONT play low frequencies (not sure exactly how that works, since its not done with a filter, something in the motor structure)

usually you have a crossover, which acts as a "filter" for the sound you dont want hitting your tweeter, mid, woofer, or what have you.

 

:cool:

I went to go buy these cheap 10 cm speakers I saw, and they were out of stock, what they had were slightly less cheap two way speakers so I bought those.

So now I have two tweaters without worring about my wiring screwing them up, just Kenwoods. It sucks living in this country and wanting American components, your options are very limited.

The Furd paper front speakers that came out were in rough shape, the left one was completely blown apart, the right one had a couple little rips in it. No wonder my sound quality sucked. The previous owner put some no-name British speakers in the rear, and I can see the scuff marks where he tried to get to the front speakers to change them, but I don't think he ever got in. It was a royal PITA getting to the front speakers. The door is the best sealed unit I've seen, should make for a good box, if only there was more room for a decent size speaker.

I got the cheapest head unit I could that still had some decent characteristics, a Pioneer DEH-15, which is ergonomic, and since crime is so bad if I'm off base, I won't cry too hard if I lose my $109 head unit. It's got very few balance, and image adjustments, I still don't like where the image is, it feels like its right up against the windshield...I need to tweak it more, but I'm running out of things to tweak.

What is the absolute cheapest sub/amp setup I can get that will still sound decent at low volume?

Cheers,
Canyon

 

e, who wants American speakers (Although USA has some great sub brands - image dynamics fe)

Germans and French make thebest speakers. :)

amp.. id go with us acoustics

sub.. an image dynamics ID10 from sounddomain.com

not sure about getting stuff over there, though.

 

You can not hear treble out of a sub because the speaker itself will just not move fast enough. If you look at a speakers specs they include the frequency range. A sub will just start to roll of way before it hits anything really high. The tweeter is not capable of moving far enough to play the low frequencys.

Where do you live?

 

Thanks, I still don't fully understand why it won't at least try and get distortion, but now I at least know how.

I'm just north of Cambridge on the NorthEast side of the Altantic. :seeya