Speaker help

[rAiN_Twist]

Hey guys,
I have a 1998 GMC Yukon, and I thought I would change my front 2 speakers. So I went out and bought a set of Soundstream SC-6T 6 and a halves, 80 W RMS. It came with 2 crossovers because it also came with tweeters. So I go ahead and pull the door panel off, and I put the stock tweeter, and speaker wire together. Also connected the new speaker to the stock tweeter and speaker wire. Then put that in the "in" port on the crossover. Then ran the tweeter to it, and obviously put it in the tweeter port on the crossover. So after I was done i turned on the radio, and the front speakers are really quiet. Are they supposed to be quieter than the stock speakers?


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[Rocket Man]

If you have a Bose system, they use 2 ohm speakers. Those are 4 ohm speakers, so they will be half as loud because it takes twice the power to push them as loud. There are good 2 ohm speakers out there that fit; I can find out what I used if you'd like.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

If you have a Bose system, they use 2 ohm speakers. Those are 4 ohm speakers, so they will be half as loud because it takes twice the power to push them as loud. There are good 2 ohm speakers out there that fit; I can find out what I used if you'd like.

That's a good point. My dad is really good with car audio, and fabrication. He's been doing it since he was a little kid. I would have him help me out with it, but unfortunately I'm at my moms house. But I still have the stock stereo in the truck. I sadly don't know who makes the systems. I think Bose works with ford though. I'll look check up on that and see if my stereo is 2 or 4ohmz thanks!


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[Rocket Man]

Our rigs either come with Bose or without Bose. You can measure one of your old speakers with a multimeter or look on them to see if they say Bose on the back.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

Our rigs either come with Bose or without Bose. You can measure one of your old speakers with a multimeter or look on them to see if they say Bose on the back.

It says on the back of the stock speaker and tweeter 4 ohm. Well it says "4Ω (ohm symbol)"


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[Tonyrodz]

If it was a Bose system it would say Bose on the front door speaker grills. Usually anyway, unless someone took that off.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

If it was a Bose system it would say Bose on the front door speaker grills. Usually anyway, unless someone took that off.

No, they aren't Bose. And the stereo is confirmed a 4ohm stereo.


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[Rocket Man]

You have something wired wrong then. You said you put the stock tweeter and speaker wire together? Explain that. If there's 2 sets of stock wires- one that went to the stock tweeter and one that went to the stock regular speaker, then there's already a stock crossover so you need to ditch the new crossover and wire the stock tweeter wires to the new tweeter and the same for the regular speaker. Otherwise it will be all kinds of messed up. You can't wire 2 channels together like that.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

You have something wired wrong then. You said you put the stock tweeter and speaker wire together? Explain that. If there's 2 sets of stock wires- one that went to the stock tweeter and one that went to the stock regular speaker, then there's already a stock crossover so you need to ditch the new crossover and wire the stock tweeter wires to the new tweeter and the same for the regular speaker. Otherwise it will be all kinds of messed up. You can't wire 2 channels together like that.

I read up on it before I put it in. And it said that the stock tweeter and speaker wire both run full power. So they said you need to use the crossover that came with the new set, because it was made for it for a reason. And the stock crossover is built into the radio I'm pretty sure.


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[Rocket Man]

You read up on what exactly- the stock system or the Soundstream ? Yes the crossover is probably built into the radio. So there is only high frequencies going to the stock tweeter ; you don't need another crossover. The reason that Soundstream comes with a crossover is so you can hook it up to a full-range input as in where there's a single set of wires to a single full-range speaker. You should never wire 2 sets of outputs together. If you don't believe me, call your dad and ask him. You might blow the audio in your head unit if you do.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

You read up on what exactly- the stock system or the Soundstream ? Yes the crossover is probably built into the radio. So there is only high frequencies going to the stock tweeter ; you don't need another crossover. The reason that Soundstream comes with a crossover is so you can hook it up to a full-range input as in where there's a single set of wires to a single full-range speaker. You should never wire 2 sets of outputs together. If you don't believe me, call your dad and ask him. You might blow the audio in your head unit if you do.

Alright, that makes sense. I just put the right side in last night, and the left side in today. And played it on the way to the car wash, and Taco Bell. Do you think that it hurt the system any to play it that long with the Soundstream crossover in there?


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[Rocket Man]

As long as it's still putting audio out on those channels it's all right but the audio IC's might be getting pretty hot! Just don't press your luck. I used to install car audio and I've seen a lot of this. Rewire it before you hurt something.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

As long as it's still putting audio out on those channels it's all right but the audio IC's might be getting pretty hot! Just don't press your luck. I used to install car audio and I've seen a lot of this. Rewire it before you hurt something.

Took out the crossover, and I think it might be a little louder. But it's still not really keeping up with the backseat stock speakers. It's almost like the front speakers don't have enough base or something.


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[iamdub]

I'm kinda confused about how you said you wired up everything. Basically, you replaced the factory woofer with the Soundstream one but kept the stock tweeter? To simplify everything, you should have 6 terminals on the crossover. There should be one pair of wires coming to the factory speakers. This pair goes to the "IN" on the crossover. Whatever pair of wires goes to the tweeter, connect them to the tweeter terminals. Same with the woofer terminals. It's been a long time, but do the factory tweeters just run parallel off of the woofer terminals?

 

[Rocket Man]

He said there's 2 pair of factory wires- tweeter and mids. At least that's what I understood. I know on my Denali, the tweeters are on a separate channel, but I have the Bose Luxe system.

 

[rAiN_Twist]

@iamdub @RedRocket There is 2 wires factory. Tweeter wire, and speaker wire. I put both of those in the in, and I also put the new Soundstream speaker wire, in the in. Because if I put it in the woofer part, it only plays low frequencys, like a subs woofer. And it's not a sub woofer, it's a speaker. Then I put the tweeter wire in the tweeter port. But I took out the crossover, and hooked it up to factory wires.


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