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Can Coaxials exist peacefully with tweeters?
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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7824686" data-attributes="member: 629735"><p>IMO, yes, this is a common car audio beginner mistake. A sound system consists of ALL woofers and tweeters involved as well as the crossover that joins them. They were designed to work well together. If you replace just one component and it actually sounds good, then it will be by a sheer luck. If you replace the woofer with a different one that has a coaxial mounted tweeter, this is even worse because in addition to potentially a mismatched woofer you also have twice as many tweeters as you need. This can make high frequencies louder, and also make imaging worse than it used to be.</p><p></p><p>A good starting point is to get a component speaker set, the one that comes with its own tweeter, woofer, and crossover box. You can certainly try to disconnect the tweeter on the coaxial speaker you have, but be careful. Depending on the crossover type that the speaker uses, you could should circuit the amplifier if you disconnect the wrong wire (this could happen if the tweeter uses second order high pass crossover network).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zako, post: 7824686, member: 629735"] IMO, yes, this is a common car audio beginner mistake. A sound system consists of ALL woofers and tweeters involved as well as the crossover that joins them. They were designed to work well together. If you replace just one component and it actually sounds good, then it will be by a sheer luck. If you replace the woofer with a different one that has a coaxial mounted tweeter, this is even worse because in addition to potentially a mismatched woofer you also have twice as many tweeters as you need. This can make high frequencies louder, and also make imaging worse than it used to be. A good starting point is to get a component speaker set, the one that comes with its own tweeter, woofer, and crossover box. You can certainly try to disconnect the tweeter on the coaxial speaker you have, but be careful. Depending on the crossover type that the speaker uses, you could should circuit the amplifier if you disconnect the wrong wire (this could happen if the tweeter uses second order high pass crossover network). [/QUOTE]
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