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front speaker - rear speaker

MadDog

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My passenger side rear speaker (2000 CSVT) was partially blown (high distortion on base). During my last trip to the local Pull-n-Part, I scavenged a drivers side front speaker from a GL. The part is not identical. The unit from my CSTV is 20 Watt, 4 Ohm, while the unit I scavenged is 25 Watt, 4 ohm. Are these 2 units otherwise functionally identical ? Other than having to tap out 2 mounting holes, the unit fits and functions just fine. Does the increased wattage rating present any difficulties to the stock amplifier ?

thanks,

Mad Dog
 
All the factory speakers suck so bad I wouldn't bother swaping it with another Ford speaker. Especially when a set of new pioneer 6x8's are $35 at wal-mart.
 
I must have a set of tin ears, but my main concern is that the scavenged part is functionally identical. I plan on addressing the audio quality at a later time. I can go and pull a front speaker from the junkyard if I need to.

thanks,

Mad Dog
 
yes they will function but the different speaker will pull more power through the amp and wires because of the higher wattage.
 
Thank you for the information. I would like to avoid taxing the factory equipment if I can. I scavenged another rear speaker last time at the junkyard and I will try that out.

Mad Dog
 
the speaker watts is capacity to handle safely. the impedence Ohms is what the radio sees (both 4ohm). If you put in new speakers they would probably be at least double capacity watts labled. It only matters if you have very large differences in capacity then the higher one wouldn't play as loud as the lower rated one ( it would have lower spl per watt).
 
also, just putting this out there, it is better to OVERPOWER your speakers then UNDERPOWER your speakers, when you underpower, you may not hear it, but your causing damage to your speaker(clipping/distortion)
 
I dont know much about the nuts-n-bolts of car audio - I just want to dump the crackly speaker (play VH "Hot For Teacher" and during the opening drum solo the old speaker crackles) and replace with a comparable one.

Turns out the rear speaker I scavenged from a SVT still crackles, although less. The front speaker from a GL sounds fine (25 watt one). I guess if it doesnt draw more than the rest (did I interpret that correctly ?) thats fine with me.

Once I get the car worked over, I can consider a better sound system.

thanks,

Mad Dog
 
also, just putting this out there, it is better to OVERPOWER your speakers then UNDERPOWER your speakers, when you underpower, you may not hear it, but your causing damage to your speaker(clipping/distortion)

wwwhhhhaaaaaaaa?

this is actually a miss conception. Underpowering a speaker damaging a driver comes form someone using an aftermarket amp and turning the gain up. This causes a Square sine wave (known as clipping). So dont getting Gain happy when trying to compensate for power and you should be just fine.
 
You could fit what I know about good car audio into a floppy disk. An 8" floppy disc. Thats not much. Me, I have no plans to get hinky with the speakers - I just want to replace the crackly one.

thanks,

Mad Dog
 
The rear door panels are dead easy. 7 (one center and 6 around the edges) screws and wiggle the entire thing up and it pops out. 5 minutes, tops. I havnt tried the front panels yet.

Mad Dog
 
All the factory speakers suck so bad I wouldn't bother swaping it with another Ford speakers for sale. Especially when a set of new pioneer 6x8's are $35 at wal-mart.

I do have bad experience with these factory speakers and thinking to replace them. Which speakers do you think have good sound quality with affordable price.
 
I have yet to replace the speakers in my contour, but in the tbird, I had Infinity 6x8s that sounded really good, and I don't remember them being too expensive. I've also always been a fan of pioneer products and I know they make some good quality, inexpensive speakers.
 
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