Tweeter Question

[Evanish 10+ year member]

I just got a power acoustik dome tweeters today. I know its not the best brand but I paid $3 for them in a retail book so they will work til i re-do my audio in the spring. My question... The box claims that they have built in cross overs. Can I just wire them to my door speakers or should I go buy an external crossover from say wally world and do it that way? My door speakers are 195watt kickers. These are 200watt max. tweeters.

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[Evanish 10+ year member]

anyone?

 

[Xprime4 10+ year member]

wow? how you want to hook them up? amp?

If you're talking about a deck, then forget it except if you want it to push your speaker at 8ohm... you won't get enough power to push the speakers

 

[Xprime4 10+ year member]

speakers doesn't put wattage lol

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

We really dont have enough info to even guess as to the right way to wire your system. But wiring the tweets directly into your existing speakers is almost certainly a bad idea no matter what.

 

[I Like Waffle]

Sure, wire it directly in with your speakers, thats how all the homeboys do it around here. My *****s system be tweetin, yo. Listen to dem highs dawg

 

[I Like Waffle]

That first post was a joke, but yea. Little story for you

This reminds me of a homeboy install i did once. There was a guy that wanted me to check his car out to figure out why his tweeters werent playing anymore, come to find out he was running type R mids, and some kinda RF tweeters, with no crossovers. He had the tweets wired in parallel with the door speakers. The explanation i got from him was "man dawg i was listenin to mah shit and dat shit be tickin den next thing i know my shit wont crisp no mo and im like dem dawg" Come to find out the tweeters had melted/cracked domes somehow. So thatll probably be the outcome of your tweeters. Best thing to do is go invest in some sort of crossover, cheap is better than none. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

and btw, yes some of the cheap tweeters do have "built in crossovers" which is just a little capacitor to filter out some frequencies, but they still sound horrible //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Most dome tweeters being run full-range at any sort of decent power level probably wouldn't last more than a few seconds.

 

[Evanish 10+ year member]

I wired them dirtely to the door speakers to see how they would sound they don't sound all that bad and do help out a little bit. Granted, These are only temporary before I re-do my system and put some 3/4'' kicker tweeters in.