I have a stock 96 accord stereo in my 92 si hatch( my stock stereo was stolen (?) I had this one from my girls car ). The front passenger side speaker sounded like it was coming from a tin can while the drivers side seemed fine. Both rear speakers sounded blown. I went to buy some new cheap dual speakers 6.5 and now both fronts sound like there in tin cans. I put the old, one good speaker in the rear and now that's the only one that sounds normal and is one of the ones that I thought was blown. Any ideas what my issue is. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Those duals, will sound like ****.

I reccommend first using a speaker, regular stereo speaker (small preferably) and using that to check and see if your wires aren't jammed or cut anywhere.

I had that happen to me, but it was after I replace my whole system with JL's and i needed a bigger battery to handle my 2 subs.

JL > *


Modified by MilanoRed_EJ8 at 2:46 PM 9/14/2005

 

<3 my JL W7.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dognutz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have a stock 96 accord stereo in my 92 si hatch( my stock stereo was stolen (?) I had this one from my girls car ). The front passenger side speaker sounded like it was coming from a tin can while the drivers side seemed fine. Both rear speakers sounded blown. I went to buy some new cheap dual speakers 6.5 and now both fronts sound like there in tin cans. I put the old, one good speaker in the rear and now that's the only one that sounds normal and is one of the ones that I thought was blown. Any ideas what my issue is. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</TD></TR></TABLE> Sounds like a wiring problem, something is shorting out someplace, you need a multimeter so you can check the speaker wires, [at the HU] with all the speakers removed, [and all the speaker term. isolated so they can't short out] check for continuity to the cars chassis, [ground] and each speaker wire, http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/HA-Wiring.pdf here is a color code. 94

 

I thank all of you for giving suggestions but, None of you suggested that I might be an idiot. As this was the case. I was testing the speakers lying magnet down. I think with the downward force of atmospheric pressure prevents the proper function of the cone. Once I mounted the speaker vertically it was fine. Thanks again for all of your thoughts and suggestions.

 

LOL, and it has to do with mounting not which way it is facing, there are some basic rules about speakers and frequency response the lower the freq. you want to reproduce the more "baffle" the speaker needs and the more "mass" that baffle needs, eg you can hang a tweeter in mid air, and it will sound about the same as mounting it to your door, you already know that you have to mount your mid-range speaker to get any bass out of it, and if you want sub bass you need a cabinet of some kind, a sealed cabinet is also called an infinite baffle the trick is to keep the air from the front of the speaker from interfering with the air behind the speaker, if you don't you have cancellation, [no bass] and the mass part also has to do with cancellation, sound is all about moving air, when a speaker cone moves back and forth, it moves the air in front, [and behind] it, if the whole speaker can move backward when the cone moves forward, and if it can it will, [for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction] its the 3 steps forward 1 step back "rule". 94