Tweeters work, mids don't

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Sep 10, 2005 | 06:56 AM
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This is a weird problem, and may be Integra-specific. My car has stock tweeters AND mids in the doors (and stock mids in the back). Looking at the wiring diagram, the wiring harness runs a single pair into each door, and then there is a capacitor matrix that forms a simple crossover of sorts to run the tweeters, which are daisy-chained off the mids. So in the dash you have four pairs of wires for front and rear, left and right, as you'd expect.

When I wired up my amp, I bought a wiring harness adaptor so I could easily plug into the stock harness behind the dash and not hack it all up. I ran four pairs of speaker wire up into the dash area and connected them appropriately to the four channels on the harness.

When I first put audio into the amp after getting everything going, I noticed that in the front, only the tweeters are working. I'm not getting any sound from the mids. The rear speakers work fine. This seems weird to me - if the tweeters are AFTER the mids in the circuit, everything should work, right? I've tried turning up the volume a fair amount from the head unit, thinking maybe I wasn't providing enough power to run both speakers in the doors, but that didn't help. I haven't tried fiddling with the gain on the amp - it didn't seem like that would make a difference if the head unit volume didn't.

Anyone have any other ideas about this? I'm stumped. Thanks!
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Sep 10, 2005 | 09:43 AM
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Re: Tweeters work, mids don't (omehegan)
Sounds to me like the woofers are blown, as you say the tweeters are just paralleled, [daisy-chained] off the mids, and the tweeters work, [so the 2ch of the amp wired to them must work] that only leaves the mids, they are blown or unplugged. 94
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