If you have a video screen, you have a DVD player. On my 09 LX it is a 6 disk CD/DVD changer.
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Are you talking about my door speakers, or the JBL 3.5's I just bought?The tweeters on the JBL speakers you bought won’t do anything because the stock system doesn’t send high frequency signals to those speakers.
Have you tried sourcing used OE speakers from a yard?
Thanks for the heads-up on the tweeters. I'll definitely get on Crutchfield and do some looking.I have an ML system in a Lexus so results may vary, but I found my front pillar tweeters lacking so experimented with several brands. I tried some MB Quart tweeters, Infinity Kappa 10.9t tweeters and a set of tweeters from my old Boston Pro component sets. The MB Quart and Infinity sounded OK but about the same as the stock, but the Boston were a huge difference. I could actually hear them. (I prefer a slightly brighter sound)
So it basically comes down to trying them to see if you like them. If you purchase from somewhere like Crutchfield, you can try different ones with their return policy. (Might be able to with some on Amazon)
Correct, the dash still has the OEM speakers. Those 3.5 JBL's in the picture I purchased are for the rear upper hatch door. I'm sorry, I just realized I didn't clarify that in my original post earlier today.Previously it seems like you said you still had all the OEM dash speakers? If that’s the case, I wouldn’t mess with those, if that’s what those other speakers you are looking at are for.
I would start with getting the sub installed. That’s going to make the biggest difference in anything you are trying to do.
Correct, the dash still has the OEM speakers. Those 3.5 JBL's in the picture I purchased are for the rear upper hatch door. I'm sorry, I just realized I didn't clarify that in my original post earlier today.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, b/c the way you describe how they will sound when out of phase, is how they sound. However, when I originally installed the 6x9's I tried them one way with the wires, then I tried them another way. They sound the same no matter which wire was being used as positive, or negative.Those are probably fine. Probably 90% of the important stuff you hear from the driver's seat will come from the dash and front door speakers and the sub in the back. The other 4 speaker locations are mostly just "fill".
I was looking at your previous pictures and I noticed you had to splice in your speakers to the factory wiring. I'm not sure if you are keeping track of polarity or not., but it will mostly like matter, especially in the "bass" speakers. A quick test that usually works pretty well to verify if you have the polarities flipped is to fade/balance the speaker to one channel. If you bass increases with only one speaker playing rather than both, then you most likely have the polarity flipped.
The reason I bring this up is because if you have the polarity flipped you get a real hollow sound with very little bass because the speakers will be working against each other in the cabin. Sound waves will cancel each other out, since they are out of phase. This is something that could definitely lead someone to believe the stereo sucked.
Sounds good.Thanks for bringing this to my attention, b/c the way you describe how they will sound when out of phase, is how they sound. However, when I originally installed the 6x9's I tried them one way with the wires, then I tried them another way. They sound the same no matter which wire was being used as positive, or negative.
I think what I'm going to do, is let the mechanic who works on Land Cruisers at my dealership finish the job. He has already been in there, got my dash speakers running and knows whats going on with everything. He quoted me a very reasonable flat rate to finish up the job he already started, once I get all my speakers in. He has already told me worst-case, he will need to keep her overnight to finish the job.
Thanks bloc & LX200inAR! I really appreciate you guys helping me along, with getting things squared away on my 200. Not only in this thread, but all of the threads I've posted in the 200 forums. I'm sure some of the stuff I ask is redundant, but it really means alot that people take the and offer to help someone along.Plus, depending on how messed up the wiring is, if two speakers are wired incorrectly putting one out of phase, and in an attempt to diagnose you switch polarity on both at the same time, the problem won't get better. But if you only switched one of them, it would.
Enter the EWD and toyota wire color coding to confirm what wire is supposed to do what. I think you are on the right track having the toyota tech suss this one out. Even if he doesn't understand the nuances of sound system setup, if he can simply restore what was done from the factory you'll be better off than what you have now.
Most manufacturers build mounting systems into their speakers, but I’ll give the parts diagrams a look later today.Thanks bloc & LX200inAR! I really appreciate you guys helping me along, with getting things squared away on my 200. Not only in this thread, but all of the threads I've posted in the 200 forums. I'm sure some of the stuff I ask is redundant, but it really means alot that people take the and offer to help someone along.
If you dont mind me asking, do the 1" front pillar tweeters, rear tweeters, and the 3.5" speakers mount directly into the doors, and pillars, or do I need to purchase mouting brackets? If I need mounting brackets, you guys, or anyone else wouldn't happen to know the part# for those would you? I looked on Toyotapartsdeal.com, but didn't see anything, maybe I'm just wording it wrong.
My Rig is a 2011. Bracket wise, that's what I'm seeing as well when I look for the brackets online. I'm going to try to figure out how to remove the panel from the rear hatch, and see if the speaker brackets are in there. If not, I'm going to snap a pic, and take the speaker with me to Best Buy and see if they have any 3.5 mounting brackets that will drop in.@jbyrd78 I may have missed it but what year is your rig?
I did some digging in generic LC200 years and everything seems to have the brackets built into the speakers. But, much of this is based on dodgy pictures from russian sites..