Component Speaker Install Question

Hello, I am installing a set of component speakers to my Entune non-jbl radio. I want to keep the head unit and will be eventually adding a small 50w amp. I understand from this thread that unless I jump the wires when I uninstall the tweeters, it kills the signal to the woofer. Although Crutchfield included speaker adapters, they are only for the woofer. Seems to me that this one from ********* would be better because I can then run directly to the tweeter (crossover built in) and directly to the woofer. I would just need some spade connectors. Am I thinking of that right? I do not want to cut the existing wiring harness so it either that, or I just use a plastic splice type of adapter between the wires.

Thanks!
DAVE

 

Not all component speakers are created the same. There are basically two kinds. There are 'low' end ones like JL audio's TR series, and Alpine's type R 6.5" speakers. You connect the woofer to the stock wiring harness, and then the tweeter has it's own wire that runs down to the woofer. It plugs into the woofer (there's a total of 4 spade connectors plugged into the woofer), and it has a capacitor in the wire that is the 'crossover' that only lets the high-range sound go to the tweeter. This is a decent setup and has much better sound imaging that a woofer with the tweeter built into it.

The second type is in all the more high-end components, like the high end JLs, Focal, Hertz, Hybrid Audio, and Image Dynamics. These speakers have a separate little box that is a crossover network. You plug the deck power into this box, and the box has two sets of outputs, one goes to the tweet, one goes to the woofer. Total of 6 spade connectors on each box.

In either case, you will have to cut out and tape that stock tweeter harness or jump it like in your link above. It's no big deal. Trust me, when you hear how good ANY of these speakers sound compared to stock, you won't be going back.

When you do eventually add an amp, you won't be using the stock wiring at all. You'll be pulling wires from the amp to each door.

 

THanks! Ive got some of the lower end ones with the built in capacitor JBL Stage 600C. I guess my question is, if I use that ********* Harness I linked, it would be the same as jumping then connecting the tweeter to the sub wouldn't it since they are just sharing the signal at that point?

 

yep. the mid runs fullrange in that set