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speakers sound wayy off and make my ears bleed!

so i got the speakers installed and the right side is so much louder than the left, and the tweeters seem like are getting alot more power than the woofer.

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Old 06-04-2012, 08:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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so i got the speakers installed and the right side is so much louder than the left, and the tweeters seem like are getting alot more power than the woofer. the woofer is lacking and sounds off.and ideas? HELP!
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Old 06-04-2012, 08:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Take it back to were you got it installed and have them look at it or give us some more info on what exactly you had done.

That way someone can point you in there right direction to fix it.
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The place that installed everything for you needs to adjust the settings (gains on the amp).
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ok pretty much 4 channel amp connected to a pair of component speakers with crossovers. replacing the two door panel speakers. they claim its the stock head unit that is the issue and is unable to do the right operation =/
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i don't recall, was it a bose system?
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Nah just base sport
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If it was installed right you should not have problems. All though, infinity speakers are known to be stupid bright. And a reason I do not really care for them.

Did they use speaker level inputs on your amp, or a LOC? Either way they need to tune it. Again I bring up the switch on the crossovers, you can set that to subtract how much is going to your tweeters.
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As Big mentioned there should be no reason it's sounding odd, other then the speakers, unless they hooked it up wrong...
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phrase and possibly attenuation @ the x-over (if available). More likely the woofers were wired out of phrase from each other.
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Yeah it sounds like that and the crossovers are at zero zero. But the tweeters over power the woofers lol. Well I'm taking it in to a specialist today
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Yeah it sounds like that and the crossovers are at zero zero. But the tweeters over power the woofers lol. Well I'm taking it in to a specialist today
Why not take it back to the shop and save your money?
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Someone mentioned Infinity speakers - is that what you have?

I have Infinity Kappa Perfects and mine sounded the same way at first. It's not so much that the woofers are underpowered, it is that the tweeters are really bright. I fixed this by myself by first rewiring the woofers with 12 gauge wiring. Before that I had 16 gauge wire and when I had it up too loud I would get some clipping on my Boston Acoustics amp. I then disconnected the tweeters and subwoofers in the trunk and adjusted the amp settings with just the door speakers. This way i knew the door speakers were actually putting out the full sound i wanted. Enough bass I could feel it in my legs with the volume up pretty high.

I then hooked up the tweeters and did some more fine tuning. The tweeters were still really bright and overpowered the woofers again. Setting the passive crossovers to 0 or -5 helped a lot. If you're on the stock stereo then the -5 setting would probably be your best bet. If you're willing to buy an active crossover you'd probably be able to get the exact sound you want. I set mine at 0 then used some of the adjustments on my Eclipse head unit to get the fuller sound I wanted.

After all that I got it sounding really good. The tweeters are still a little too loud without my subwoofers for my taste. If you're still finding them be too bright after the shop looks at them I would suggest pulling off the covers, removing the tweeters and disconnecting them. If you're using Infinity Kappas I bet you'll find the woofers actually sound good and you only need to replace the tweeters or make some of the adjustments I suggested above.

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Thought about this more... probably a lot easier to disconnect the tweeters at the croosover to test and tune your woofers and make sure they aren't out of phase.

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