Improving the standard door speakers

480_rocket · Post by **480_rocket** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:01 pm

Made a cheap little passive crossover for each 5.25" speaker thats made the sound a lot better, only if you have a sub though.

Add a 220uF 35v capacitor in series with each speaker. Cuts out a lot of bass, so cleans up the midrange at higher volumes.

Cost, about Â£1

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:09 pm

Â£1 also buys you a throttle body gasket from Volvo

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:30 pm

And some heater control knobs...

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:04 pm

speakers would still sound shit though

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:06 pm

chris1roll wrote:speakers would still sound shit though

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:20 pm

chris1roll wrote:speakers would still sound shit though

Very direct Chris

480_rocket · Post by **480_rocket** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:23 am

Unless you spend a fair amount on replacement speakers, I've never seen any benefit over some cars standard speakers. Electrically, they take the power of an uprated head unit, mechanically they just don't have the xmax. Stick a capaitor in, you get of rid of that problem and the head unit doesn't have to drive so hard so mid range distortion is greatly improved.

Amonra · Post by **Amonra** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:14 am

480_rocket wrote:Add a 220uF 35v capacitor in series with each speaker. Cuts out a lot of bass, so cleans up the midrange at higher volumes.

Cost, about Â£1

is that done in series with the +ve or the -ve wire ?

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Improving the standard door speakers

Improving the standard door speakers

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