Have clio front speakers got crossovers....?

[Dansta]

im looking at upgrading my front speakers and need to know if the wiring to the speakers/tweeters has any form of crossover/resistor on the speakers.

 

[Lagerlout]

Don't think so mate, the cable from the head unit just splits into two pairs.

 

[BRUN]

kind of, but its built into the speaker not the wiring

 

[hydeyho]

From what I've heard, its not a crossover, instead its some form of capacitor/resistor that filters out the low/mid frequencies

 

[Lagerlout]

A capacitor with a resistor in parallell is a High Pass Filter. Depending on the values of the components, it will only allow frerquencies above the cut off frequency to pass and stop (attenuate) frequencies below it.

I didn't know they had these, but I suppose they had to have something to stop the tweeters from blowing. lol.

 

[Dansta]

So could i get a set of re[placement fronts with tweets built in and fit them ok then?

 

[Lagerlout]

Yup. But if you don't disconnect the OEM tweeters you'll be bombarded with treble. I put some JBL two ways in my doors and there's way too much treble imho. Never got round to doing anything about it though.

 

[iPap]

Straight feed then. All good, Dansta send me your keys, some cash and what you want and I'll sort it!

 

[jjoe90]

dont be a girl just bang the speakers in

 

[bmh.01]

Yup. But if you don't disconnect the OEM tweeters you'll be bombarded with treble. I put some JBL two ways in my doors and there's way too much treble imho. Never got round to doing anything about it though.

I only notice the treble if I fade fully to the front, with the rears in it doesn't sound too bad, the rears are quite muddy really and the tweeters do a great benefit of hiding this really.
I wouldn't bother disconnecting the tweeters because you'll have to take the dash off and imo they do a good job of adding some clarity to the high frequencies, each to there own though I suppose.

 

[Brasseye]

The door speakers are direct drive from the head unit,and the dash tweaters have there own crossovers built into them.... maybe get a component system like http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/index.php?cPath=24_26_283 with their own crossovers.