Door Tweeters

[spenny2004]

After finally getting round to replacing the speakers in my car I cannot believe how better they sound. I read that people disconnected the tweeters but I havent bothered. I am wondering if you upgrade these and if so what size etc would you need and how do you get to them???

 

[John007]

I didn't bother changing mine as it is a door card off job and in a Mk2 Leon this is a big job.

I just disconnected mine and used Infinity speakers where I could angle the coax tweeter up towards my ears, coupled with a 4 channel amp and sub it sounds sweet with good imaging.

 

[Raider]

I replaced my door speakers all round with infinity co-axial speakers, pointed the central tweeter unit upwards and disconnected the built in tweeters as a lot of people had mentioned doing this and that it sounded OK. In my case I thought it sounded pretty bad, having the high frequencies coming from near the floor just didn't seem to work, especially with my (or a passengers leg in the way), the highs just seemed to disappear.

Anyway, to cut a long story short I reconnected the the built in door tweeters all on all four doors but put an in-line high-pass crossover to filter the bass frequencies (as I believe there's nothing filtering them as standard, or if there is it doesn't seem to be very good). Since I put the in-line filters in the sound is terrific, really balanced, crisp and clear and thanks to the new door speakers, loads of deep bass

I used these filters, really cheap and you get 2 per pack so only need 2 packs to do all four doors:

(Not allowed to post URL's yet so search for this on Amazon.com - not the UK site):

Scosche-XOHP-Xohp-High-Pass-Crossover


The only problem is I had to get a mate in the US to order them and send them over as I couldn't find them anywhere in the UK.

Hope this helps.

 

[mt audio]

If you are running co-ax you shouldnt have the oem tweeter connected also, the impedance will be dramatically changed from what it should be and cause damage to the stereos on board amp