scratchy speakers

[Civic Jim]

make sure the WIRES are intight inside the connectors as if they are lose it will "crackle"

[CZ-R]

I've been waiting for someone to suggest this, but no one has yet, so I will. I'm willing to bet that if you ran new speaker wires from the cd player to the speakers it would solve your problem.

When I installed the system in my Civic I ran all new speaker wires to all of the various speakers just to be on the safe side. Yeah it's a pain in the ass, but the results are worth it.

[89si]

i had no problems with mine, i just hooked up the wires that came with the speakers to the stock ones. i dont really feel like tearing apart my panels to change up the wires. do you think getting some new wires would improve the sound quality enough that it would be noticeable?

im going to be having one of my friends do the wiring for my sub and amp in a month or two, so i was thinking of possibly changing them then.. but only if its actually gonna make a difference.

[CZ-R]

The way I see it, there's two ways to do anything; the right way, and the get-me-by way.

You also have to kinda look to the future. I mean, I run all my speakers in the car off of my amps. No speakers are being powered strictly from the cd player. If you plan on running amps sometime in the future, it's that much easier to run the speaker wires now.

And yes, there will be an improvement in sound - you may or may not notice it. Honestly, how much sense does it make to spend a bunch of $$$ on a nice cd player and nice speakers, only to use 14 year old speaker wires to connect everything?

[turtlecrxsi]

It really doesn't make much difference off of the CD player... off an amplifier, now, that's a different story...

89si, why do you have to wait to wire in a sub and amp? That is probably the easiest kind of electrical wiring to do. Positive wire from amplifier to battery with a fuse holder close to the battery. Negative wire from amplifier to the chassis via bolt and washer). Remote wire from amplifier to power antennae wire of head unit. RCA/low jacks from low output of head unit to low input on amplifier. Speaker wire from output of amplifier to sub. Done.