audio questions

[djradiorick]

I have a few audio related questions:

1. the speakers in the dash, are they tweeters or 4 inch woofers?

2. Are the rear door speakers 4" or 6 1/2"?

3. Would replacing only the front speakers for now be reasonable, so i can buy really nice front speakers now and when i can afford it buy nice rear speakers?

4. If i remove the speakers from the dash, and only use the doors up front, can i wire that set of channels to the door speakers for extra power, or are they already run in parallel as a 2 or 3 way system?

 

[alkaline747trio]

I know the door speakers are 5 1/4", dash speakers are tweeters I believe, replacing the fronts would work, but a new headunit would probably yeild better results, but eliminates all but the door speakers.

 

[djradiorick]

if i were to mount a speaker in, say an alpine type-s, i know the mounting depth is too great to mount it inside of the door panel, but if i drilled through the door panel to mount them and put in a spacer, would everything fit fine?

 

[Stefangoalie]

I was just looking in my 95' to see what I would need to do to start building a new stereo. It looks to me the front channel is set up for component speakers, with the Midbass speaker in the door and the Tweets in the dash, I assume there is an internal crossover within the Head Unit. If you where to replace only the door speakers, it wouldnt sound right, seeing as the crossover sends only lower frequency notes to the doors. If you replaced only dash, it'd be the opposite, receiving only high notes.
If you aren't looking at replacing the head-unit anytime soon, you need to buy a set of component speakers, which will includes new mids (doors) and tweets (dash), and it will also come with an external crossover, dont use that until you replace the head unit. That is what I did in my 1991 FJ80, and it worked out well. You could even lengthen the dash speakers wires and mount your new tweeters in the door if you'd like.

 

[firetruck41]

I didn't think the dash speakers were tweeters or "crossovered", just a small "full range" speaker, I could be wrong though

 

[pulse98]

1. The dash speakers are tweeters, they have a capacitor on them (a simple crossover).

2. The front and rear door speakers are 5.25"

3. Spend your money on the very best front speakers that you can get to fit and can afford. Most car audio competition stereos that are gear towards sound quality have zero rear speakers, except for maybe woofers.

4. The dash speakers and front door speakers are run in parallel already. The front door mids do not have any crossover on them, but the tweets do. You will see that the left dash speakers have 4 wires on the connector, 2 going into the left tweeter (+ and -) and the other two (+ and -) going out to the left door speaker. The same goes for the right side.

 

[djradiorick]

so since the crossover is not in the head unit or amp, i am going to want to use the crossover that comes with the component speakers correct?

Also, i could have sworn that everywhere i have looked the speakrers have been listed as 6 1/2 in the fronts and 4's in back, could be wrong i suppose

 

[firetruck41]

so since the crossover is not in the head unit or amp, i am going to want to use the crossover that comes with the component speakers correct?

Also, i could have sworn that everywhere i have looked the speakrers have been listed as 6 1/2 in the fronts and 4's in back, could be wrong i suppose

Did you lok in the 80 series faq? or in this recent thread: https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=110734

 

[kennyv0826]

I just replaced my door speakers and I put in a set of Alpine seperates and I don't notice any crossover from what I can tell. The doors have "full range" of frequency going to them and then the tweets in the dash have a cap on them to keep the low freq out.

I built a pretty simple 5/8" door panel to hold the midbass and tweet and it clears with no problem and my midbass is deep. I am going to build some fiberglass pods though so I can get better imaging from the doors, but that comes after my fiberglass sub box that fit in the back quater panel out of sight.

 

[kennyv0826]

One more thing, if you put the woofer and tweet in the door you are prob going to want to pull the factory tweet in the dash. Otherwise it prob won't sound very clean.

 

[Hampton]

Excellent newbie question:
I am new to my 1997 LC (first LC), but am looking to replace my speakers...nothing serious, but I would like decent imaging. I have pulled my front speaker to see what's in there. After measuring the length, they are less than 6.5", but longer than 5.25". I thought this might be an excellent newbie question because I am also new to car audio (have crawled through the forum looking for posts on th topic)

Is this what a 5.25" speaker looks like? Are the speakers really 5.25"? I just want to swap out the OEMs without further mods. Can I easily replace with a slim 5.25" component set? (was eyeballing the Exile X or XPs).

Thanks,
Hamp

 

[Long Duck Dong]

all your qestions might be ansered right here....

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=110734&highlight=diy+speaker

 

[drsales]

With minor mods you can use the Polk Audio DB Speakers in the doors, F&R.
Install a new amp, you will be happy you did.
Make sure you also put in a new head unit. The single best upgrade.

That's all I have to say right now.

 

[kennyv0826]

Make sure you also put in a new head unit. The single best upgrade.

The single best upgrade is a new sub. Holy damn what was Toyota thinking with that piece of crap they put in there!?