Need some basic help guys

[Kwik_Cutty88]

Hey guys. Right now I am adding a set of 5.25" mid range speakers, and I am going to add tweeters too, however they are not a compent set. I figured the 5.25" i have now sound good, so it doesnt justify buying the complete component set, I will just buy the tweets.

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_43898_Clarion-SRQ212H.html

I have the component set these tweets come with up front in my car. One end goes from the tweeter to speaker, and then one wire goes out to the amp to power them both. However, the 5.25" i have only has one set of terminals. How would I go about hooking the tweeters up? I can run them off the HU amp if needed, but its only 15 watts I think, so running them off the amp in the back would be prefered. But then I would have 6 speakers on a 4 channel? How should I go about this?

[Kwik_Cutty88]

To the top!

[bassrace]

You can try and power them off the hu and see if it does the job. I wouldn't hook them up to the amp with your 5.25". Get a small amp for tweets If you feel that is necessary, I think the hu will be enough. Hopefully you have hp filter on your hu for the tweets. Or possibly crossovers if no filter.

[john253a]

just do it right the first time, youll be happier, it will sound better and it always cost less and save you more time

[Kwik_Cutty88]

I don't really think I'm doing anything wrong here, just trying to save a little money. So these tweeters have an inline crossover so I should be able to hook them right up to my HU and be good to go?

[Kwik_Cutty88]

Bump

[bbeljefe]

Go ahead and hook them to your head unit. Tweeters don't need much power to make them sing and these can only handle about 45 watts so I would think they will do fine driven by the fifteen watts your HU provides.

If you're interested in sound quality, you'll want the crossovers the component set comes with but if not, the filters provided with the tweets will work with low power. But maybe... the tweets come with a crossover that's tuned to the same as the high pass in the component set...

[BoomZoom808]

Save up for the component set but if you absolutely must...

If you want your tweets to sparkle you need to run them off amp power. They will work on head unit power just fine. Not sure on how your amp will handle 2 ohm stereo but you could run the tweets on the front and run the mids parallel on the rears. You will lose dynamic head room and it will be harder on your amp and mids but will brighten up your tweeters compared to head unit power. I have done it before but it's less than ideal and it was on a P400-4 which could do it no problem.

[Kwik_Cutty88]

I'm only using these for a little bit better rear full so they don't have to be super loud, I think the 3.5" and 6.5 component set more than makes up for that up front

[BoomZoom808]

Should be fine I realized that after I looked at your build. Thought it was going up front.