Clarification please?

[Str8Bumpin]

Okay, so I'm going to apologize ahead of time because this may be the stupidest question ever. So I've been looking around on the forums for a while now and I've been seeing talk of "component speakers". Until recently I just figured they were the speakers that put out mid and highs, like my door speakers. But once I started to look closer at these components i realized a lot of them had a 6" speaker a tweeter and some box looking deal. So I was wondering if somebody could clarify what components actually are, and what the small box looking thing is. Thanks guys, and sorry about the dumb question (I'm new to this )

[lowsound10]

Box thing is a crossover. And componets are better for staging. Most of the time are better also.

[Jd1102]

Okay, so I'm going to apologize ahead of time because this may be the stupidest question ever. So I've been looking around on the forums for a while now and I've been seeing talk of "component speakers". Until recently I just figured they were the speakers that put out mid and highs, like my door speakers. But once I started to look closer at these components i realized a lot of them had a 6" speaker a tweeter and some box looking deal. So I was wondering if somebody could clarify what components actually are, and what the small box looking thing is. Thanks guys, and sorry about the dumb question (I'm new to this )

componets are mostly correct me if im wrong guys but seperate tweeter and mid and the box it a crossover

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[finkster]

There are mainly two types of mids and highs speakers...coaxial and component.

coaxial has the mid and high grouped together in one unit....like this.

Components separate the mids and highs to whatever locations you choose....such as the mids in the doors and the tweeters on the dash.

Those little boxes are crossovers. What they do is send send the correct signal to each speaker...lower sounds to the mids and higher sounds to the tweeters...If you didnt have those, you would have midbass coming out of your tweeters and highs coming out of your mids....not cool.

[Forevrbumpn]

separately mountable tweeter for imaging- You want your higher frequencies directed more towards you, and equally spaced apart for best imaging.

Box- Crossover This separates the High frequencies, and low frequencies. Highs go to tweeter, lows to mid, or midrange/midbass

The crossover allows you to run more power safely to your component set over Coaxial speakers

Larger speaker- Midbass or Midrange produces the lower frequencies the tweeter doesn't play. And also the frequencies the mid play are not as directional as a tweeter, so they dont always have to be mounted custom like tweeters do.

Difference between components and coaxes is,

Components better sound, and power handling that coaxial speakers

Coaxial Speakers- More budget friendly, cheaper to install, and dont have a crossover. Coaxial speakers usually have just a 6db High Pass capacitor to filter out lows to the tweeter

[Str8Bumpin]

Thanks a lot guys, this cleared this up quite a bit.