6.5" imagine dynamic tweeter issue?

[Shan87]

I'm new to a lot of car audio and based on all the reviews I read online about these speakers I decided to give them a shot to which overall I love them as they get loud and stay clear but on some of the vocals especially ones starting with an S, they are extremely harsh. This is also typically on rock music and not rap. From everything I've read about these speakers that doesn't sound right but I don't even know where to begin to try and fix it beyond tweaking the deck which won't fix it unless i practically take out all the highs.

The issue I'm having is nothing I do can tones it down... the head unit is older as its a pioneer p740mp. The speakers are amped by an alpine amp can't remeber the model but its a 2 channel amp that puts out 110w rms per channel.

Possibly a mounting issue? Though they're simply just mounted above the woofer in the door of a silverado.

Its set up with a flat eq and treble +2 and base +3 with HPF at 80hz.

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[goingdef 10+ year member]

try using the eq settings as a cut only device so set with the same eq curve but bumped down at or below flat not above it really cuts out on distortion and harshness in the highs, and also try tweeter attenuation on the crossovers

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

If tweeter attenuation on the crossovers doesnt work switch polarity on them.

 

[travicles 10+ year member]

yeah by reversing the wiring from the tweeter to the mid, it increases volume in the 7k-10k hz range or something like that..maybe this is your problem maybe not

 

[Fiendstolemyamp 10+ year member]

You can use a L-Pad to attenuate the tweeter, do some research on it. Prob the easiest thing for you to do is wire a stereo 8 ohm L pad in parallel to get a 4 ohm pad.

 

[Fiendstolemyamp 10+ year member]

And if you switch polarity on the imagine tweets it'll just make em louder.