2 ohms speakers

Are the stock front door speakers wired in parallel with the dash tweeters? Anyone know the ohms?

 

Mine came out to 4.3 Ohms when I metered them the other day. Yes they are wired in parallel.

 

i swapped them out for the Subaru kicker tweeters and kicker cs speakers I know the kicker cs is 4ohm I wonder if it would be the same ohms now that those 2 are wired together, I am also going to add an amp I don’t believe those tweeters Will handle that many rms if I send like 50 watts to the door speakers since there wired together? Wonder if there is a crossover somewhere?

 

The factory system was wired to 2 Ohms nominal since its all wired parallel. It’s part of the reason the factory system sucks IMO.

It’s typical that tweeters don’t handle the kind of power woofers do, but they don’t need to since high frequencies require much less energy to reproduce.

There is a no crossover but a filter capacitor wired to the tweeter. That’s true for the OEM speaker, and most probably likely for sure-ish on the Subaru tweeters.

 

Yeah on the Subaru tweeter there a little black box molded to the back must be the capacitor, so because the tweeters are wired in parallel with the door speakers it’s giving a two ohm load is that correct? And the factory 15 watts to the front channel sharing the load with the tweeter at 2ohm and if I send say 45watts rms to the front speakers 45 watts rms will also go to the tweeter with the only thing protecting it is the little capacitor which I’m not sure how many watts it’s rated at rms as the box had no info

 

If your tweeter and woofer were getting equal power, the tweeter would be eating your face off. When it sounds balanced the power distribution is disproportionate.

Whatever you send to the front speakers, unless it sounds like it has way too much High, the HF speaker is maybe getting 1/3 of that. It depends on where the crossover point is.

 

I think
It would be better to bypass the factory tweeters and run a set of components direct to the amp and bypass the factory harness

 

Your call but unless you plan to bi-amp or run a lot of power, or you have components with a two way crossover, it’s not necessary and there isn’t any benefit.

 

yeah your probably right, I don’t want nothing crazy only want to run like 50 watts to each speaker, I’ve learned anything more than that it’s a never ending rabbit hole