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<blockquote data-quote="UFO" data-source="post: 1299811" data-attributes="member: 564778"><p>Thanks again - I will check all of this stuff.</p><p></p><p>Another wrinkle I didn't mention because it's a separate issue: When those fine, competent folks at Circuit City did their 9-hour system install they failed to anchor everything in the doors properly, so since a few months after, I've been hearing and feeling what are presumably the crossovers for the front pair of Quarts bouncing around whenever I open and close the doors. Which of course means the wires have disconnected from them and they haven't worked at all for most of that time. I've just had the fader set to the back pair until I can get the car in for a rework by someone who knows what they're doing. Maybe the front ones will even be in better condition than the rear because they haven't been in use...</p><p></p><p>//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif</p><p></p><p>Word to the wise: Avoid Circuit City at all costs, for anything.</p><p></p><p>I suppose the thing to do is just have whatever shop I find test the Quarts and use whichever ones are working, if any. I <em>had</em> wondered a bit about overkill on putting in the back pair as full 2-way components. On second thought I'd likely be better off removing the tweeters from them and just using them as mid drivers - the "PWE160" config. (If I were to do that, would I be able to ditch the rear crossovers and wire them to the amp direct?)</p><p></p><p>I'm also extremely skeptical about subwoofers in general - that thing about the human ear being incapable of distingishing stereo from mono anywhere below such &amp; such frequency... The Basslink is definitely going in (on the enthused advice of some fellow rock lovers who have them,) but I'll have to hear it to believe it's as good as those huge EPI home speakers I used to haul around in my old Plymouth hatchback in the '80s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UFO, post: 1299811, member: 564778"] Thanks again - I will check all of this stuff. Another wrinkle I didn't mention because it's a separate issue: When those fine, competent folks at Circuit City did their 9-hour system install they failed to anchor everything in the doors properly, so since a few months after, I've been hearing and feeling what are presumably the crossovers for the front pair of Quarts bouncing around whenever I open and close the doors. Which of course means the wires have disconnected from them and they haven't worked at all for most of that time. I've just had the fader set to the back pair until I can get the car in for a rework by someone who knows what they're doing. Maybe the front ones will even be in better condition than the rear because they haven't been in use... [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif[/IMG] Word to the wise: Avoid Circuit City at all costs, for anything. I suppose the thing to do is just have whatever shop I find test the Quarts and use whichever ones are working, if any. I [I]had[/I] wondered a bit about overkill on putting in the back pair as full 2-way components. On second thought I'd likely be better off removing the tweeters from them and just using them as mid drivers - the "PWE160" config. (If I were to do that, would I be able to ditch the rear crossovers and wire them to the amp direct?) I'm also extremely skeptical about subwoofers in general - that thing about the human ear being incapable of distingishing stereo from mono anywhere below such & such frequency... The Basslink is definitely going in (on the enthused advice of some fellow rock lovers who have them,) but I'll have to hear it to believe it's as good as those huge EPI home speakers I used to haul around in my old Plymouth hatchback in the '80s. [/QUOTE]
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