replacing tweeters, but NOT replacing speakers...

[BoomBoxStereo 10+ year member]

will this throw my sound off? having aftermarket tweeters and stock speakers i feel like it would make my music sound odd..

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[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

Why would you do that?

 

[BoomBoxStereo 10+ year member]

Why would you do that?

Because one of my tweeters is on the verge of blowing and at the monent I can't afford new speakers, only like a $60 pair of used tweeters

 

[Below20hzonly 10+ year member]

i would just wait until you get a little more cash and just and get new components all together

 

[BoomBoxStereo 10+ year member]

i would just wait until you get a little more cash and just and get new components all together

That's the plan, but for the time being can I throw in some aftermarket tweeters without it sounding retarded?

 

[Bettr n' Revrse 5,000+ posts]

That's the plan, but for the time being can I throw in some aftermarket tweeters without it sounding retarded?

Why blow money on just tweets when you could save a little more and just get components?

 

[Below20hzonly 10+ year member]

ya just disconnect that tweet thats about to blow and wait for more cash

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

you can certainly replace drivers in pairs (left and right) and not upgrade everything. i built my own front stage with separate speaker purchases. i experiment with a variety of drivers. the kicker is that you need to make your own passive crossovers (or buy premade crossovers)

here is my $60 recommendation for replacement (better than OEM quality) tweeters and crossovers. mount them in place of factory tweeters, behind factory grills.

Tang Band 25-302SH 1" Shielded Neodymium Dome Tweeter 264-804

5 kHz High Pass 8 Ohm Crossover 266-474

when it comes time for replacement front woofers - you can use the Dayton RS series (4 ohm versions).

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this is assuming you have a large factory grill and suitable mounting location. we cannot make a final recommendation until we know what vehicle we are working with (pics of the factory tweeter locations would help).

 

[BoomBoxStereo 10+ year member]

don't mean to revive a dead thread but i just saw there was a response to this.... here's what my situation is now (not my personal pics):

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

Those look to be 3.5" speakers, not tweeters.

 

[zako 10+ year member]

will this throw my sound off? having aftermarket tweeters and stock speakers i feel like it would make my music sound odd..

Generally, this is not a good idea because in a multi-driver system, even in stock factory system, the drivers and the crossovers were matched to work well together (hopefully). Now if you buy different tweeter, does it have the same impedance as the old? Does it have the same sentivity as the old? Does it have the same resonance frequency? Frequency response and distortion characteristics? All of these could throw the sound off.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

don't mean to revive a dead thread but i just saw there was a response to this.... here's what my situation is now (not my personal pics):

You'll want to just clip the wires to those things. I've never ever heard a speaker in that location firing off the windshield sound good.

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

If you are only trying to complement your factory speakers it may make it sound a little better.

if you keep the levels of your tweets at the same levels as your factory speakers it may sound better with proper crossovers.

edit: misread the op

 

[av83 10+ year member]

Just disconnect them. Those vans have 6.5/6.75" drivers in the door, right? That's good enough. Just mount the tweets from a comp set, if you get one and not coax's, on the pillars.

 

[Kingstroker 10+ year member]

Besides sounding bad in that location, the sun will bake then