Splitting speaker wire

[nas786 10+ year member]

My speakers came w/ TWO crossovers per side, one for the tweet and one for the woofer. What are the different methods I can use to split the speaker wire so I can send it to each xover, which is the best method for quality, and which is the easiest??

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[NhustlaR 10+ year member]

thats not makin any sence to me, maybe im an idiot. you can use two different wires........

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

Best method is solder and heat shrink. Butt connectors will work also.

 

[nas786 10+ year member]

thats not makin any sence to me, maybe im an idiot. you can use two different wires........

na, the thing is that each channel has two xovers, one for the tweet and one for the woofer. So, basically i have 4 xovers, and two channels from my amp. Each channel going out can only be one +/- wire, and i have to somehow split that so i have a +/- going to each the tweet xover and woofer xover. Kinda hard to explain, hope that makes sense....if i could somehow draw it, it would be easy.

 

[Bake 10+ year member]

If the crossovers have screw down terminals you could just use a jumper to go from the mid crossover to the tweet crossover. Again, solder or butt connectors will work also.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

If it came with it's own Xover for the tweet and woofer, you need to wire them separately.

 

[nas786 10+ year member]

^^^last two posts, i'm not gettin it....i know they must be wired seperately, but I have a TWO channel amp, so at some point those wires have to come together, right?? unless i'm missing something here...

...i admit, i'm a noob, i'm kinda lost, this is the first time i'm going to attempt hookin up my own comps