Replacing sail panel speakers like everyone else
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Replacing sail panel speakers like everyone else I've got a 2001 Firehawk coupe, and let's see if I've got this right:
The existing speakers are 4-ohm dual voice coil, so there's two separate 4-ohm channels wired over to drive it... and those channels were already lowpass filtered at (in?) the amp, so hooking up N-way speakers is pointless (for N>1).
There are two woofer-only 6.5" DVC speaker options people seem to be recommending, and they're both perpetually out of stock. (Are the Bazookas, the WF641.5DV - are those just the drivers ripped out of a Bazooka tube subwoofer? Is that why I can't find any documentation on them separately?)
So... assuming I'll never get one of those, I could get any old 2-way speaker I'm happy with, and just leave the tweeter unhooked (since all the high frequency content got filtered out at the amp anyway). But I'd still need that speaker to be a 4-ohm load - I can't bridge the two amp channels driving my existing DVC and run them into a 2-ohm speaker, because nobody thinks the Monsoon's outputs are precisely matched to the point where they could be safely bridged.
Am I missing anything important?
Let's see... it's okay that I'm only going to be driving my new speaker with only one channel, because the sensitivity is gonna be so much better than the stock speaker's that I can give up half the power and STILL be just as loud as the original.
Oh! What sort of RMS power handling do I need to have?
The existing speakers are 4-ohm dual voice coil, so there's two separate 4-ohm channels wired over to drive it... and those channels were already lowpass filtered at (in?) the amp, so hooking up N-way speakers is pointless (for N>1).
There are two woofer-only 6.5" DVC speaker options people seem to be recommending, and they're both perpetually out of stock. (Are the Bazookas, the WF641.5DV - are those just the drivers ripped out of a Bazooka tube subwoofer? Is that why I can't find any documentation on them separately?)
So... assuming I'll never get one of those, I could get any old 2-way speaker I'm happy with, and just leave the tweeter unhooked (since all the high frequency content got filtered out at the amp anyway). But I'd still need that speaker to be a 4-ohm load - I can't bridge the two amp channels driving my existing DVC and run them into a 2-ohm speaker, because nobody thinks the Monsoon's outputs are precisely matched to the point where they could be safely bridged.
Am I missing anything important?
Let's see... it's okay that I'm only going to be driving my new speaker with only one channel, because the sensitivity is gonna be so much better than the stock speaker's that I can give up half the power and STILL be just as loud as the original.
Oh! What sort of RMS power handling do I need to have?
Last edited by KalTorak; Jun 24, 2008 at 11:23 PM. Reason: Missed a couple points
