Re: speaker quesrtion...

[Paul <silentop@txcc.net>]

At 03:20 PM 2/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
thank you this did help to clear some things up

Paul
>The nice thing about component set speakers is that they act like one speaker.
>In other words your head unit will only be connected to basically four
>speakers.  Just imagine a two way speaker divided into two separate speakers.
>Ok that sounds a bit convoluted. Here...
>
>The right rear (RR) channel (one of four, LF, RF, LR, RR ) of your head unit
>(Alpine or Factory) will go back to the right passenger door speaker set.  But,
>before getting to the speaker, the channel will go threw a cross-over.  This
>magic little device will take the (lets say) 15 watts from that channel and
>sort of divide it and send it to the two speakers in the set.  BUT, it wont
>actually divide the 15 watts sending a smaller amount to each speaker. The
>cross-over will take (for example) all the sounds in the frequency range 0-
>3KHz and send them to the 6 inch speaker in your door at the full 15 watts, AND
>at the same time it will take all the sounds in the frequency range 3KHz -
>20KHz and send them to the little tweeter in your door at the full 15 watts.
>Since the speakers are covering completely different sounds, the 15 watts can
>be divided at a point down the frequency range of the component set.
>
>I hope some of that made sense.  And if I'm wrong you guys can flame me.
>
>As for your Alpine clearing up the distortion in the speakers, this is often
>caused by a mis-match in the power from the head unit and the power that the
>speakers want.  You Alpine may give you a bit more volume with a bit more
>clarity (due to it higher power out put compared to the factory unit), but
>you'll most likely still get distortion at higher volume.
>
>Joe




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