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Help with JBL speaker repair - refoam gone wrong?
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<blockquote data-quote="BenH" data-source="post: 8864930" data-attributes="member: 690429"><p>Thanks. All your caveats above are well taken and appreciated - I know you can't know everything about every vehicle which is why I was so focused on having you review the data I found by people working on them directly. I did believe both the video and the blog post were correct and it is what I came here with (and to other sources). The guy at the first audio store I went to also just thought he was going to drop the coaxial in and wire two wires, and when I went back and explained the issue he first seemed in denial and then confused. Other stores when I mentioned this did state I'd lose some bands if I just wired the coaxial straight and others acknowledged clipping the tweeter wires as shown in the blog post is correct.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad I have confirmation now from someone I was able to have a conversation about it with. I think that my only concern now is which speaker to use. I am edging towards the Alpine SPE-6090 he uses in the video because he says they work well and they are affordable. However I am still concerned a bit about the impedance because it looks like those are 4 ohm speakers. However when I try to search on google I see some posts saying 2 and some saying 4. Or it is listed like 2/4.</p><p>I'm curious...if my current speakers are 2ohm rated doesn't that mean that each one is? i.e. The midrange and the tweeter?</p><p>So if a coaxial is rated at 4 ohm, but I am clipping the wires to run each separate, doesn't that then lower the impedance for each one individually? IOW, each coaxial speaker is 2 ohm, but when wired together they are 4? Or is that not how it works?</p><p></p><p>There is the possibility I need to replace the front door speakers as well, so putting in 4ohms in both locations may be problematic for volume levels. If you think these Alpine's are a problem, I'd really like to find a good 2 ohm recommendation for the midrange 6x9. Again I still have 2 main options:</p><p></p><p>1) Get the coaxial like we're talking about and clip the tweeters and run 4 wires independently.</p><p>2) Get just a component 6x9 mid and use the existing tweeter in the bracket. Run the wires from each similar to how they are now. The main problem here is the possibility my tweeter bracket doesn't fit well on top of the new mid.</p><p></p><p>I'm still going to try and refoam one more time, but if that fails I'll have to go with one of these options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BenH, post: 8864930, member: 690429"] Thanks. All your caveats above are well taken and appreciated - I know you can't know everything about every vehicle which is why I was so focused on having you review the data I found by people working on them directly. I did believe both the video and the blog post were correct and it is what I came here with (and to other sources). The guy at the first audio store I went to also just thought he was going to drop the coaxial in and wire two wires, and when I went back and explained the issue he first seemed in denial and then confused. Other stores when I mentioned this did state I'd lose some bands if I just wired the coaxial straight and others acknowledged clipping the tweeter wires as shown in the blog post is correct. I'm glad I have confirmation now from someone I was able to have a conversation about it with. I think that my only concern now is which speaker to use. I am edging towards the Alpine SPE-6090 he uses in the video because he says they work well and they are affordable. However I am still concerned a bit about the impedance because it looks like those are 4 ohm speakers. However when I try to search on google I see some posts saying 2 and some saying 4. Or it is listed like 2/4. I'm curious...if my current speakers are 2ohm rated doesn't that mean that each one is? i.e. The midrange and the tweeter? So if a coaxial is rated at 4 ohm, but I am clipping the wires to run each separate, doesn't that then lower the impedance for each one individually? IOW, each coaxial speaker is 2 ohm, but when wired together they are 4? Or is that not how it works? There is the possibility I need to replace the front door speakers as well, so putting in 4ohms in both locations may be problematic for volume levels. If you think these Alpine's are a problem, I'd really like to find a good 2 ohm recommendation for the midrange 6x9. Again I still have 2 main options: 1) Get the coaxial like we're talking about and clip the tweeters and run 4 wires independently. 2) Get just a component 6x9 mid and use the existing tweeter in the bracket. Run the wires from each similar to how they are now. The main problem here is the possibility my tweeter bracket doesn't fit well on top of the new mid. I'm still going to try and refoam one more time, but if that fails I'll have to go with one of these options. [/QUOTE]
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