mark levinson tweeters (1 Viewer)

[AtoyotA]

has anyone replaced their ML tweeters? thinking about ordering them from impex. i assume they are both the same p/n (i.e. not side-specific) 86160-0W300?

 

[Kamran Khan]

For right side part number is

86160-0W300​

And for left side part number is

86160-0W310​

Those are very expensive, you can upgrade all your car's front and rear speakers with tweeter included using best aftermarket brand for half of the price.

 

[Live to Ski]

ensure that your new stuff has the same imepedance as oem, otherwise sound may suffer.

with my 100, If i remember correctly, impedance is 2 ohms, while the speaker replacement market hovers around 4 ohm (which was put in by a car stereo operation....before I educated myself).

Not sure how a possible mismatch in the tweeter arena will affect sound.

 

[AtoyotA]

i replaced my front drivers with some polk set that was recommended on here, but for some reason when i connected the polk tweeters to the crossover, the tweeters just sounded like s***ty small speakers, as if there was no cutoff. so i plugged the ML tweeters back into their harnesses and it sounded right (except for the fact that the tweeters are blown).

im not sure if i used the wrong wire to power the crossover? like maybe the wire i used was downline from some inline cutoff capacitor? idk, but it seems to only work with the ML tweeters, hence my inclination to replace with ML. i would never pay the $115/tweeter that i see on ebay, but impex has them for $74 each, which i find acceptable to get rid of the tinny buzzing.

there is an inline capacitor on the ML tweeters, so maybe that is required to get the proper frequencies? I thought that's what the crossover was for...

 

[dbleon]

I thought they were closer to 8 ohm ?

 

[Live to Ski]

I thought they were closer to 8 ohm ?

you may be right as I rattled it off from memory. I do know that the oem imedenance door speakers that fit are hard to find in the aftermarket world.