Where to mount component speaker crossovers?

[aldive]

How and where have you guys mounted the crossovers for your front component speakers?

Thanks.....

 

[B94Sport]

Mine are mounted in the trunk, right below my sub box. They are secured to the base of the false floor with screws. Very simple installation in terms of the crossovers themselves. I have seen other people put them in the doors, in the console, or under seats.

 

[PekingMan]

I installed my fiances behind the doors and that was a pain in the ass because of their depth. I had trouble finding a spot to mount them and that would allow the panel to be fully pushed on. Could be just the ones I had (Boston Acoustics). My advice, somewhere close the amps.

 

[coolchris]

what do cross overs do and are they necessary for component speakers? i just got some 6.5'' audiobahn components... do i need to get cross overs?

 

[B94Sport]

Did you get a midbass driver and a tweeter with those, Chris? Or did you just get a midbass? With components, you want to only allow certain frequency ranges to each driver (high frequencies only to tweeters, mids only to midbass), which is why you need crossovers if you have more than one type of driver running off of a single amp. With most amps, (actually I think all) you can set a cutoff frequency for the output, which makes it kind of like a crossover, but without actual crossovers, you end up sending all the non-cutoff frequencies to all of the drivers, which can damage them/waste power/make your music sound bad.

For example:
If you have tweeters and midbass drivers (a typical 5.25"/6.25" component set), but you have no crossover, in order to get anything out of the tweeters, you will have to set your amp's crossover to full range. This sends very high frequencies (10,000 Hz+) to the midbass drivers (which they cannot reproduce), as well as lower frequencies (less than 500 Hz) to the tweeters, which they cannot reproduce. This can damage your drivers.

This is where crossovers come in. They take a single input line from an amp, run it through some capacitors, and split it into two or more outputs which only have certain frequency ranges in them. Then these outputs get connected to their respective drivers, and everything sounds great.

I have never seen a component set that did not come with crossovers though... Did you get a component set?

Sorry for the long post... I hope it helped you though.

 

[Rscotts1]

Crossovers

Crossover's can be mounted anywhere you are able to put them without interfering with anything mechanical such as windows. I have mine mounted in the rear cargo area on my amp rack.

 

[M.Scott]

Behind the front door panel high up near the A (?) pillars next to the dash. There is a nice sized raised panel there that fit mine just fine. In the door was a must for me as used the stock wiring and had to split the signal at the door. I mounted a thin piece of wood to the metal door with one screw and liquid nails. Then attached the Xover to the wood with short screws

 

[Brian's98XLT]

Well it depends. If you have plugs in your door then mount them in the doors. I normally attach them to the door panel. You do not want them getting full of water buy putting them inside the door. If you have boot that you can feed wires through then put them in the car.
A crossover divdes the music up to make sure each speaker is getting the right frequncies. If you were to run full range music through a 1" tweeter it would stop working pretty quick.

 

[aldive]

Anyone have pictures of the crossover mountings?

Thanks....

 

[coolchris]

i dont think i got cross overs with my components... what do cross overs look like? i got these speakers and im going to install them today: Dead Link Removed will i need to go buy cross overs? how much do they cost?

 

[aldive]

Originally posted by COOLCHRISCUSH
i dont think i got cross overs with my components... what do cross overs look like? i got these speakers and im going to install them today: Dead Link Removed will i need to go buy cross overs? how much do they cost?

I don't believe that your speakers are component speakers.

 

[coolchris]

ok... so im fine?

 

[B94Sport]

Yeah, you should be fine if you are just running those... They have a broad enough frequency response to run without crossovers. If you decide to add tweeters though, something's going to need crossovers.

 

[coolchris]

they have detachable tweeters on htem check it out on the link

 

[B94Sport]

Yeah I know... I meant seperate tweeters. That spec that says "Polyswitch tweeter protection" means you'll be fine. Also, you can look at the frequency response rating. Since it is such a broad range (20 Hz-28,000 Hz is about all that you will hear in music), you will be fine. The "tweeter protection circuit" is most likely a built-in capacitor or two that functions like a crossover.

 

[karl_burns]

under the driver's seat

aldive:
If you don't have power seats, they will be fine there. No problems with mine. (I dopped my digital camera in the Charles River while getting out of a kayak last Saturday or else I would post some pics)
I used to have them in the lower rear of each door (in my sport) and they worked fine there as well.
Karl