wiring tweeters without Amp

[aasaa_666]

I know a little from my mistake from buying speakers. first if you want your sound to sound right with your tweeters make sure you buy the one way speaker for the front, then you splice your tweeter (make sure your tweeter has a crossover) and it should sound great.

the reason you have to have the 1 way speaker is because the other ones you buy from the store with more than one way have tweeters on them, if you try to hook up tweeters along with it you will hurt your ear with super high highs (it sounds trippy but the treble will kill you), and if you pump your sounds you will blow your deck because there is a higher draw of power. hope this helps.

you can always buy 3 way speakers and not have to worry about tweeters. Remember if you do plan to do it the wrong way, make sure you have an amp for it so you dont fry your deck.

[Troyfrezze]

Originally Posted by Troyfrezze

Searched around and I'm not really finding what I need, of course I did read the sticky's but didn't see it there either, maybe someone can point me in the right direction? Anyways, just finished installing some new speakers in the 95 Camry and am about to install some tweeters in the door. But I'm not sure what or where I am wiring them to? Can someone give me some info here? I do not have any woofers yet, so no amp yet either.
Tweeters
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn..._32705,00.html
Rear 6x9's
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...472238,00.html
Front 6x5's
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pn...562749,00.html
Head Unit
http://www.hookedontronics.com/show_...s.jsp?cid=7754

Hopefully this is enough information to go on. If someone can give me some advice...I'd really appreciate it!

Alan

Going to bring this back to life now as I am looking to finally install the amp's required for my system, which I'm learning little by little. Anyways, I've read up on some of the sticky links to try and get myself a bit more educated here, but still a little confused. From what I understand, I need to get either a 6 chan Amp, or a 2 and 4 channel amp for the speakers I have. Two Channels for the Tweets, and then 4 Channels for the front and rear speakers. The problem I'm running into is what size to go with here for either setup. Right now i don't have subs, but plan to research and learn more to do that next year, so I just need something for what I got right now. I'm not looking for extreme thump of course, but I know the speakers handle the base quite well from the head unit, and I've read that they do even better with an amp, but at the same time I want them to sound clear since I listen to mostly rock and Electronic/Dance so I don't want it to sound really distored either. If anyone can help me out here, maybe tell me what to look for, or a link that will educate me a bit more would be fine. Thanks so much everyone!

[Corollacrazy42]

Well first off, having more power will help in controling the speaker. In that I mean the speaker cone will be able to move out (linear) and return to its original position much quicker with more power. So this will help alot for rock songs and electric that have quick fast beats. You will definatly enjoy the increased power. I noticed crisper highs, and much more midrange bass.

I think your best bet would be to 2 channel the tweets and 4 channel the other speaker (given you know what active is). If not this may not be the route for you. IN this you have to set your gains to the tweeter so that it doesnt damage it by distorting the signal. If you distort the singnal to long, you wont have tweets anymore. You may want to think about purchasing a good compnent set after selling your other equipment, that way you have a passive crossover and something easy to amplify. You also wont have to set freq points for both the tweet and the midbass. From what I understand, each and every tweeter and midbass driver has its own specific freq ranges to extend to, this goes just as importantly for the power setting, so unless you know alot about YOUR specific speakers, active may be a very hard thing to do.

According to your specs listed on the sites provided. You would need around 80 watts RMS to power them. Elementaldesigns.com has a 4 channel that does 85x4 and is AB class, so that would work well. As for the tweet amp, you have to look a little more specficly to find power rating's for them, but to be safe I would say around 50 watts would be plenty, if not less.

To be perfectly honest though, I think your jumping into something you are still a little unaware of. I'm not saying this to be mean, I don't know barely anything either, but through reading and gaining knowledge from a few people here I have found out alot of useful info when it comes to car audio.

http://www.bcae1.com/

^ This site should give you good basics of car audio. As well as some things you may not know. Took me forever to read most of it, but I find it was well worth the time.

[Troyfrezze]

Yea, that was one of the sites I've been reading from, and though I understand most of it, it's actually putting it to use. I've always been that way..reading something is one thing, but actually putting hands on the setup, or working on it is the way I'll learn. But thanks for the information...like I have said before..any help is great so long as I can learn something from it!