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<blockquote data-quote="XanderMoser" data-source="post: 3105848" data-attributes="member: 574859">You can&#039;t hook up tweeters like that. Tweeters need a capacitor, which is a basic high pass filter. The rating of the capacitor (farads) and the impedance of the speaker (ohms) determines the frequency which the tweeter would be highpassed at. The capacitor would go in series with the tweeter. Without this basic crossover, your tweeter is getting every single frequency that your 4x6 speakers are getting. Very very bad. I&#039;m guessing your high pass filter on your amp is around 100 hz. Tweeters are rarely designed to go below 1000 hz. In car audio, usually at least 2000 hz. Your tweeters are probably blown already and sound terrible.The way you hooked everything up, you are making a very low impedance load for your amp. Amps usually can&#039;t handle less than 1 ohm. There are exceptions though.Please visit the site <a href="http://www.bcae1.com" target="_blank">http://www.bcae1.com</a>This site will give you basic information on hooking up speakers and amps, as well as teach you basic electronic principles vital to proper car audio setup. You&#039;ll learn a lot and be able to make your car audio experience much easier and sound much better.Good luckOh, one more thing. Why do you have 4 6x9s in the back? Bridged? If they are 4 ohms each, you just put a 1 ohm load on 2 bridged channels, giving each channel a half ohm load. Ouch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XanderMoser, post: 3105848, member: 574859"] You can't hook up tweeters like that. Tweeters need a capacitor, which is a basic high pass filter. The rating of the capacitor (farads) and the impedance of the speaker (ohms) determines the frequency which the tweeter would be highpassed at. The capacitor would go in series with the tweeter. Without this basic crossover, your tweeter is getting every single frequency that your 4x6 speakers are getting. Very very bad. I'm guessing your high pass filter on your amp is around 100 hz. Tweeters are rarely designed to go below 1000 hz. In car audio, usually at least 2000 hz. Your tweeters are probably blown already and sound terrible. The way you hooked everything up, you are making a very low impedance load for your amp. Amps usually can't handle less than 1 ohm. There are exceptions though. Please visit the site [URL="http://www.bcae1.com"]http://www.bcae1.com[/URL] This site will give you basic information on hooking up speakers and amps, as well as teach you basic electronic principles vital to proper car audio setup. You'll learn a lot and be able to make your car audio experience much easier and sound much better. Good luck Oh, one more thing. Why do you have 4 6x9s in the back? Bridged? If they are 4 ohms each, you just put a 1 ohm load on 2 bridged channels, giving each channel a half ohm load. Ouch. [/QUOTE]

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