Front Speaker Volume

5StarCord

New Member
your problem is that they are out of phase.. as you have swapped your wires around and this helped out you may still be out of phase.. this isn't good for the radio itself (or amp if you install one)

to check your phase, rather than turning up the volume and watching the speaker grab a battery AA to 9v will work fine.

hook up a piece of speaker wire to it. Making note which side of the wire is positive and negative output.

now unplug your radio (or amp) and touch those wires to your speaker leads and watch your speakers.. if you touch the positive wire from the battery to the positive terminal and same for the neg to neg. ... if you have it wired correctly the speaker will pop out.. you only want to do this for a split second. Don't hold it there, unless you want to fry the speaker.

Your fronts should be lower than the rears, normally your fronts are smaller and tend to deal with the higher freq range, while your rear should be a bit louder and handle a bit more bass.

if adding a amp be sure that you adjust it out correctly, if it has a built in cross-over make sure it is setup correctly. A 4 channel will be best. Becareful as it is easy to over power the tweeters on the front speakers when using a amp if you crank it to loud.
 

stormnorman

New Member
Could just be the brand of speakers. I have infinity speakers too and what youre saying sounds like my speakers.
 

Prozon

Kris
No it wouldn't be the speakers. I replaced the infinity speakers in the front with other speakers I had.

And 5starcord, i'm not really sure what that determines. You said do that to figure out if the positive/negative are wired right, but once I know that they are... what do I do? Lol.
 
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5StarCord

New Member
you want all your speakers to be wired in phase...

normally people make a mistake with wire color coding and swap them around during installs...

once you verify your positives and negatives all you have to do is make sure that you hook them up correctly to the right outputs from the radio or amp.

if you are 100% sure that all speakers are in phase and you still have one speaker playing lower than the others then either the speaker has a fault or the radio/amp

to rule out the radio/amp simply swap the wires around from the left to right speaker and see if that gives you louder output.. if not, then it most likely a speaker problem.

it could still be a bare wire, but normally this would cause the speaker to ground out and not play at all.
 


Prozon

Kris
Well when I wired up the speaker wires, I used a wiring diagram telling me which wires went to which speakers. (Left front, right front, left rear, right rear.)

I can't see the speaker wires being backwards.. because then changing balance settings would make the wrong side get louder. Right?

As for positive/negative.. i'm fairly certain they're good now. The cd player itself COULD be the problem, but I highly doubt it. I didn't notice any problems in the vehicle it came from.

But not much I can do to the car right now, the motor is out so the battery is unhooked and such.
 

5StarCord

New Member
the two places which wires get swapped around putting speakers out of phase during a install would be the back of the speaker or back of the radio.

as long as everything is wired up correctly then your front speakers should play at the same volume.

only reason this would not be happening would be a faulty speaker (failing voice coil), poor connection, or output from the radio.

Only way to rule out the above is take the left from radio output and swap it with the right front output.. if the low volume switches from the right to the left speaker, then your radio output is failing. if it doesn't change then the problem would be with the speaker or the connection at the speaker. ... doubt it would be a raw section in the wire grounding out as this normally would cause a complete short and the speaker not working at all and end result would eventually burn out the channel of the radio.
 

suspendedHatch

Legalize Illegal Aliens
Test the resistance of the wires. They tend to corrode. You can replace the wires but do it correctly. When I see some looped speaker wire or re-used appliance wire in the door jamb it makes me want to strangle babies.

Having them wired out of phase will kill the bass, but it would do so evenly. Still, you should make sure you have the polarity correct. I'm willing to bet you've got the front and rear out of phase.
 


acura1

New Member
Ok what size speakers do you have. make sure you have a fader on your amp,Also check and see if that amp is bridigable,
and how many rms(constant) watts it will be putting out Times 4.Are you adding any subs?? if you want good sound get one, or two Subwoofer 6x9's are good for mids, but Sub's are meant for BASS.I don't think there are any speakers known as 9x9's
Check them out again ok?
 

Prozon

Kris
I have 9" by 9" speakers. They're not really classified as "9x9's".
As for the audio, i'll figure it out all later lol.
 
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