Does Wiring a 2 Way Speaker Out of Phase Damage the Tweeter?

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Hi, I'm new here. I always run basic aftermarket sound in my car, nothing crazy--just better than OEM. Ihave one question. Does wiring a 2-Way speaker out of phase damage the tweeter? If there is a little capacitor on the tweeter that separates it from the woofer, does wiring it backwards send the low frequencies through the tweeter first and then block them from the woofer? If the low frequencies go into the tweeter, will it get damaged?

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[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

A tweeter capacitor should be bi-polar, meaning there is no way to wire it backwards. Plus it takes an inductor to make the most basic low pass filter, so what you're asking regarding damage from low frequencies isn't possible.

 

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Thanks for the quick response. I dont know if its a capacitor or what? But there is a little thing on the wires to the tweeter. I have been told the little thing blocks the low frequency from the tweeter. So are these always wired so that no matter how they are + and - that thing only affects the power going to the tweeter? I thought it might only go on the + wire so if - is reversed, the thing would work in the opposite direction.