Speakers in my '02 Xtreme
Booch
12-13-2004, 11:39 PM
Just bought a used '02 Xtreme, and want to upgrade the stereo.
Took off the dash speaker grill, and found 1.5" tweeters mounted on an adapter plate; they look stock, and have what looks like a capacitor wired in front of the speaker (must be a filter, 'cause it sure isn't a crossover!).
The stereo is stock, with only the four speaker outputs.
So, did GM ever offer the seperate mid's and tweet's with a factory filter? Has anyone ever heard of this?
Lastly, if I just splice off the front speaker wires coming out of the head, convert them to RCA's, run the RCA's to a seperate amp, and then wire the two channel amp output back to the two front speaker wires at the head (using the stock crossover or filter or whatever the h*ll it is), how would it sound? I know an aftermarket crossover would be better, but if I use the stock filter, how would it sound?
Any help's appreciated!
Took off the dash speaker grill, and found 1.5" tweeters mounted on an adapter plate; they look stock, and have what looks like a capacitor wired in front of the speaker (must be a filter, 'cause it sure isn't a crossover!).
The stereo is stock, with only the four speaker outputs.
So, did GM ever offer the seperate mid's and tweet's with a factory filter? Has anyone ever heard of this?
Lastly, if I just splice off the front speaker wires coming out of the head, convert them to RCA's, run the RCA's to a seperate amp, and then wire the two channel amp output back to the two front speaker wires at the head (using the stock crossover or filter or whatever the h*ll it is), how would it sound? I know an aftermarket crossover would be better, but if I use the stock filter, how would it sound?
Any help's appreciated!
BlazerLT
12-14-2004, 03:54 PM
Just bought a used '02 Xtreme, and want to upgrade the stereo.
Took off the dash speaker grill, and found 1.5" tweeters mounted on an adapter plate; they look stock, and have what looks like a capacitor wired in front of the speaker (must be a filter, 'cause it sure isn't a crossover!).
The stereo is stock, with only the four speaker outputs.
So, did GM ever offer the seperate mid's and tweet's with a factory filter? Has anyone ever heard of this?
Lastly, if I just splice off the front speaker wires coming out of the head, convert them to RCA's, run the RCA's to a seperate amp, and then wire the two channel amp output back to the two front speaker wires at the head (using the stock crossover or filter or whatever the h*ll it is), how would it sound? I know an aftermarket crossover would be better, but if I use the stock filter, how would it sound?
Any help's appreciated!
Don't use aftermarket speakers with the stock headunit. Replace everything or replace nothing.
The stock system uses 8ohm speakers and if you replace them with 4 ohm, you will burn out your deck really quick.
Took off the dash speaker grill, and found 1.5" tweeters mounted on an adapter plate; they look stock, and have what looks like a capacitor wired in front of the speaker (must be a filter, 'cause it sure isn't a crossover!).
The stereo is stock, with only the four speaker outputs.
So, did GM ever offer the seperate mid's and tweet's with a factory filter? Has anyone ever heard of this?
Lastly, if I just splice off the front speaker wires coming out of the head, convert them to RCA's, run the RCA's to a seperate amp, and then wire the two channel amp output back to the two front speaker wires at the head (using the stock crossover or filter or whatever the h*ll it is), how would it sound? I know an aftermarket crossover would be better, but if I use the stock filter, how would it sound?
Any help's appreciated!
Don't use aftermarket speakers with the stock headunit. Replace everything or replace nothing.
The stock system uses 8ohm speakers and if you replace them with 4 ohm, you will burn out your deck really quick.
chcknugget
12-14-2004, 04:06 PM
Yeah the capacitor is for filtering out sound frequencies. Pretty ghetto, but hey it works nice! It's better than having 4 midrange speakers putting out blah.
BlazerLT
12-14-2004, 04:15 PM
caps are used to filter out the low and lower middle frequencies only.
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