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***D_Smalls*** · November 22nd, 03:18 PM

so, Im a car newbie.

Im waiting to get my license so I can drive my car. (1990 Subaru Legacy). So I was sitting in it and realized theres some things Ive got to do. One of them, is pop the speakers in.

they are the rear speakers. 6.5 inch. I was checking everything out, and they look like they are basically just a drop in part. like just hop in the trunk and connect the wires and screw em into place. But, with the wires.. is there like a positive and negative wire? and if so, how do you match em up?

also, they are two different speakers. I havent had a good look at em, so I dunno if they are the same watt or not.. if they arent the same watt, is that a problem?

hmm, Ill go out there with the camera and take some pics

alright.. so first of all, heres the car..

then heres one speaker.

heres the face of it

heres the other

then the face of it

**Z PYRO** · November 22nd, 03:35 PM

if you can't tell from the wires themselves, get a book with a wiring diagram in it (chilton, haynes, etc.) its possible that one wire is black, the other black with a white stripe, or one is black the other red, etc. the speaker itself should be labeled with which side is + and -

***D_Smalls*** · November 22nd, 04:13 PM

heres the wires in the back.. I dont get it.. they are different.
left side

right side

**crustybug** · November 22nd, 04:59 PM

bigger one on the bigger terminal smaller on the smaller, it already is set up so you cant screw it up. Assembled in Mexico!!!!!!

FIESTA

***Pierced*** · November 22nd, 10:49 PM

the wire with the stripe is (-) solid wire is (+) and the speake that was made in mexico is going to be hard to tell which is positive and neg just try it both ways and see which way sounds better

***martix_agent*** · November 23rd, 12:29 AM

get a song with lots of bass and plug one speaker in both ways. whichever way sounds better is the right way. that's about the onyl way it can be done with speakers like those. that's what i had to do with my car.

**crustybug** · November 24th, 04:46 PM

dont even need a song wit lots of bass. if you just hook it up and play any song, it it sounds like absolute crap then switch em

**Spudchucker** · November 24th, 11:52 PM

the only thing switching polarity does is make one speaker move in while the other is moving out. if they are both backwords, they will sound perfect. if they are both right, they will sound perfect. the only thing that would sound bad would be if they played deep bass with different polarities hooked up, and it would sound bad because the bass waves would cancel eachother out. pretty much though, on regular midrange speakers, youre all set

**Charger** · November 25th, 12:18 AM

so you are putting a 4 ohm and an 8 ohm speacker in it? isnt 8ohm not for cars

**Spudchucker** · November 25th, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Charger

so you are putting a 4 ohm and an 8 ohm speacker in it? isnt 8ohm not for cars

usually cars can handle 4 ohm setups. its 2 that starts getting to em. 8 isnt a problem at all, in fact its the easiest setup on the amp of any mentioned

**Charger** · November 26th, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Spudchucker

usually cars can handle 4 ohm setups. its 2 that starts getting to em. 8 isnt a problem at all, in fact its the easiest setup on the amp of any mentioned

how about 4 ohms on a home stereo

***Pierced*** · November 26th, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Charger

how about 4 ohms on a home stereo

that would be perfectly fine to use 4ohm for home audio i have a buddy that has 2 kicker solobarics that are 2ohm hooked up to his home stereo

**Spudchucker** · November 26th, 10:23 AM

yea ive actually gone to .5 of an ohm before and didnt fry anything, but i highly recommend not doing that

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