Author Topic: Mk3 Infinity Speaker/Tweater Problem  (Read 975 times)

Offline ItsHarry

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Mk3 Infinity Speaker/Tweater Problem
« on: 31 July 2006, 18:20 »
Hello. Simple one...I think!

Decided to buy the 270w Infinity Reference Door Speakers. Turns out they come with tweaters & corssovers. This was, initially, a nice surprise. Anyway, I fitted the components, no problem.

Then I fitted the left tweater. Obviously I had to cut the original wires from thier tweater connectors to fit the new ones. Started it up. Tweater sounded great, but the component on the side that I had fitted the tweater wasn't on? Why!? My only guess is that I need to connect all 4, not just 2 of the original VW wires to the tweeter? Am I right?

Secondly, what is a crossover?What does it do?& how the hell do I fit one?

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Re: Mk3 Infinity Speaker/Tweater Problem
« Reply #1 on: 31 July 2006, 18:37 »
I think you would need to attach all 4 wires as i'm guessing the 2 you haven't connected go to the door speakers.
A crossover is a device that will filter out bass going to the tweeters

Offline V_Arse6

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Re: Mk3 Infinity Speaker/Tweater Problem
« Reply #2 on: 31 July 2006, 18:48 »
The wiring goes from the HU up to the tweeter, and from there down to the door speaker.  The second plug is simply the one that goes down there - if you look at where the two plugs where plugged in (look at the metal connectors and surrounding wire traces), you'd see that it just passes the signal straight through from one plug to another.

The crossovers simply separate out the low notes and high notes, so you can send the lows to the woofer, and the highs to the tweeter.  This should greatly improve the sound quality.

You shouldn't plug the tweeter in directly like it sounds like you have!  The HU will be feeding it Bass notes as well as the treble ones it's designed for.  the OE tweeter had a filter built-in, but you must use the crossover boxes you got with the new components.  There is a risk of damaging your tweeters if you turn the volume up before installing your crossovers with it like it's currently wired :shocked:

Basically, the wires which are coming from the head unit (the ones you've wired into the tweeter) should go into the input of the crossover, then seperate wires should go from the crossover Tweeter outputs to the tweeter, and from the woofer outputs on the tweeter crossover to the woofers.

The way I wired mine was to take off the lower bits of the dash (the bit under the wheel on the drivers' side, and the entire glovebox section on the passenger's), and feed the wires that go up to the tweeters down into the dash so they were sticking out the front.  I then wired the wires coming from the HU to the INs on the crossovers, and the wires that went to the door speakers into the woofer outs on the crossovers.  I then needed some new wire for the tweeters, but mine came with enough wire to thread down through the dash already attached (which I connected to the crossover's tweeter outs obviously).  This let me install the crossover boxes behind the dash trim that I'd removed (just attached with some decent tape, but they're positioned in such a way that screwing the dash trim back on effectively holds them in position, so the tape was only required to hold them loosely in place).

I hope that's fairly clear.  If not I'll try to go whip my dash off and take some photos for ya, so you can see what I mean :smiley:  It's no big deal - only about 8 screws in total I think.

(Whoops.. Just re-read that, and I suggested wiring goes from the tweeters to the woofers, but it's from the crossovers to the woofers... Strikethru'd the typo..)
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Offline ItsHarry

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Re: Mk3 Infinity Speaker/Tweater Problem
« Reply #3 on: 31 July 2006, 20:26 »
That's pretty clear! Cheers mate! Next time I get time off work, in around 3 or 4 years (!), I will re wire! Until then, the sound shall not be pumped!

Thanks!