Tweeters - High pass filter required?
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Tweeters - High pass filter required?
For those of you who have rewired your speakers and ran them straight from the deck, did you just wire it straight to the tweeters as well? Or did you add a high pass filter? I was thinking about putting a capacitor in the pos. line to the tweeters to act as a high pass filter and just wanted to know if anyone else has done this.
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Yes, you most definitely need a high-pass filter as tweeters woof once.
(piezo driven tweeters may be an exception, but then there's no need in saturating the crystal with low freq energy).
(piezo driven tweeters may be an exception, but then there's no need in saturating the crystal with low freq energy).
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Great, thanks for the info guys. I'll check behind the tweeters when I get home tonight to see if there's caps installed. If not, then I'm thinking a 6-7 uF capacitor. Does that sound about right?
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I just took a look at it and there is a factory installed capacitor in the line to the tweeters. So good... That's taken care of.
Now, woo!! I finally figured out the problem with my stereo! No sound was coming out. At first there was sound with the factory deck but after a few months it just stopped working. So I bought a supposedly good working Kenwood deck off a guy on another forum. It's pretty nice and has a motorized faceplate and everything. Anyway, I wired that all up and STILL no sound! I kinda left it alone for a few months until now... I just hooked up a brand new deck and it works!!! Either the deck the guy sold me never worked (), or there's something in the factory wiring that's causing these decks to go bad. Therefore, just to be safe and to get better sound quality I'm still going to go ahead and rewire all the speakers and now I'm going to get 4 brand new speakers to go along with it. I just can't understand how 2 decks can have the same exact problem.
Now, woo!! I finally figured out the problem with my stereo! No sound was coming out. At first there was sound with the factory deck but after a few months it just stopped working. So I bought a supposedly good working Kenwood deck off a guy on another forum. It's pretty nice and has a motorized faceplate and everything. Anyway, I wired that all up and STILL no sound! I kinda left it alone for a few months until now... I just hooked up a brand new deck and it works!!! Either the deck the guy sold me never worked (), or there's something in the factory wiring that's causing these decks to go bad. Therefore, just to be safe and to get better sound quality I'm still going to go ahead and rewire all the speakers and now I'm going to get 4 brand new speakers to go along with it. I just can't understand how 2 decks can have the same exact problem.
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