where do you guys have your crossover boxes installed at? in the doors? beneath the seats? I want to replace my front speakers, but I still have yet to find a place for the crossovers...

 

1 is in the kick panel, 1 is behind the dash.

 

which sides? I am assuming right kick, and driver's side dash

 

actually left kick and for the right side i put it in the dash. doesnt really matter though.

 

not to sound stupid but what does a cross over do?

 

my stereo installer put them both on the shelf behind the glove compartment.

 

I dont have crossover boxes....

--Don

 

that is a good place to put them. out of reach, and possible for future kick panel install for midbass. nice

 

i put mine in the doors, huge mistake the terminals rusted, well i know better for next time now

 

In the trunk. If you use twisted speaker wire, and make sure you don't run next to power wires it is all good, besides they look good mounted next to the amp.

A crossover takes the audio signal and sends certain frequencies to specific speakers, bas and mid range to the 6.5" speaker (in our cars at least) and the trebble is routed to the tweeters.

 

why can't i run my RCA's along with my power wire?

 

static i guess, you could hear a wining noise in the speakers its annoying

 

nah that's not true. i wanna hear the technical explanation. hehe. then i will bust the myth of the signal/power wires on the same side.

 

Whining noise in speakers is caused by a poor installation or more typical poor product. Running cables and power wire near each other has nothing to do with it. It is an old habit that people still believe in, but is in no way factually based.

--Don

 

Mine are mounted in the trunk. Click the pic for a larger image.

 

Why exactly can't you mount them in the door? I mean, wouldn't the outsides of the speaker rust if there was water getting in there? Also, there is a layer of plastic in between the door panel and the door frame. I would guess that if you mounted it on the door panel side of the plastic, then you would be fine, right? I am asking because I will be trying to install a set real soon.

 

mine where inside of the door inside of the plastic, i guess water got in there and they rusted, im gonna have to replace them next summer

 

mine are wrapped and ziptied in the doors, and they are fine- much more convenient to remove and/or swap in the future if needed

 

thank you don

ask yourself a question people. do you believe that a power wire will induce noise into an RCA? it could if it were an AC wave form. also think of this. is the entire chassis of the car not part of the power delivery system? the same current that flows through the positive wire is also flowing in the chassis. if this were a possible cause for noise, a lot of systems would be effected. i mean the chassis of the car would be acting as a a huge antenna for noise. the reason why it doesn't is because that would require oscillations (AC wave forms). not gonna happen in ur car people.

just food for thought

 

I have mine mounted underneath the driver seat. The crossovers that come with infinity kappa perfects are too big to mount inside the door.

 

mine are velcro'd to the inside of the door but now you guys are scaring me with the whole rusting thing. i should know better though cuz the infinity xovers i had in there for a year did end up rusting haha. maybe i should wrap it up in a bag...

 

Now that looks good!

 

mine are in the doors....no problems so far

 

putting xovers in the trunk is nice and all but it really is a waste of wire and time imo. i think you can have just as clean of a setup with the xovers somewhere closer...

 

I have always put mine into the doors and have never had problems.

If I didn't always build stealth systems, I would probably want to display them.

 

When you put them in the door do you get a rattle or do you strap it down?

 

Underneath front passenger seat worked great for me. Also, it's not recomended to run rca's and speaker wires next to power wires. It MIGHT cause distortion.

 

mine are in the doors on top of the plastic sheet that protects from water..

 

that isn't even slightly true. read my above post for more information on power induced noise in audio signle cabling.

 

I've never done this, but I'm curious if you have ever tried it....

Have you ever hooked up an oscilloscope to your car's power to see what the signal looks like? In a perfect world, the signal would be a perfectly flat line because it's DC voltage. However, concidering how the voltage is produced (alternator), I have a feeling it is not a perfect DC signal. Therefore, I'd have to think it is possible for induction to be there. I do agree with you and Don that it is unlikely though. ...food for thought


oh yea..."distortion" would be impossible

 

its called AC ripple voltage, and the figure is in the millivolt range. this ripple will not induce noise.

 

even if it were possible, I would think the RCA cable would shield that out. agreed?

 

yes. if the rca is twisted pair.

 

I put them in teh doors and stuck them with black silicone for tail lights