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Old Jul 16, 2006 | 01:24 AM
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Hey guys, a while ago when I bought my H/U I also bought some Alpine SPS-17C2 speakers for the front doors. When I installed them, I wired the tweeter and the woofer seperatley. Well, I want better sound so I am gonna buy a 4 channel amp, but my question is what to do with my tweeters? Should I just run them off of the H/U or should I try to reconnect the tweeter wires back to the speaker terminals (like it was when I bought the speakers). Or is there a better suggestion?? I figure running them off the H/U will be easiest, but I was wondering if that wouldn't be the best thing. Please help.
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bump. please help me out
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Old Jul 16, 2006 | 01:02 PM
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You could use a crossover. One amped channel into crossover comes out with one amped channel for mid and one amped channel for tweeter.
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Is that something that I have to buy? Is it like a 2 wires going in, 4 wires coming out type of thing or what? If I did this, how much power would I loose going to the woofer?
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So long as your amp is decent (50-75w/channel), just wire them back up like they came at day one, and then hook the amp up to them like normal.

Head unit amps aren't strong enough to keep up with an aftermarket amp, you'll end up with underpowered tweeters.

If you are not using the back two channels of the amp you could also bi-wire them. 1 channel to the woofer and 1 channel to the tweeter.
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So long as your amp is decent (50-75w/channel), just wire them back up like they came at day one, and then hook the amp up to them like normal.

Head unit amps aren't strong enough to keep up with an aftermarket amp, you'll end up with underpowered tweeters.

If you are not using the back two channels of the amp you could also bi-wire them. 1 channel to the woofer and 1 channel to the tweeter.
Thats what I will probably end up doing. But could somebody give me some more info on the crossover??
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A crossover will split your signal so that each speaker only gets the frequencies that they are meant to produce. Like highs to the tweets, mids to the mids and low bass to the subs. Some component sets come with crossovers when you buy them.
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A crossover will split your signal so that each speaker only gets the frequencies that they are meant to produce. Like highs to the tweets, mids to the mids and low bass to the subs. Some component sets come with crossovers when you buy them.
I see, where can I buy them?
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Mine came with my comps, but if you want to buy them seperately, I would do a search on e-bay or some of the other online electronics shops. I think you would probably get your best deal that way.
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So would something like this work for both of my door speakers??
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Old Jul 20, 2006 | 03:07 PM
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As long as you have seperate connections for the tweeter and the mid they should work well for you. I have one in each kick panel for my components.

Do your true duals dump out the side, or are they over the axel?
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I have an extra set if you'd like them.
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