mids & high install problem

[wrexxy]

I installed the front and rear doors. My problem is that the front and rear left doors are speakers are working, but are MUCH quieter than both right doors.

I have 14 awg by 2 stinger hpm twister wire, and i really had to force it through the boot to get it into the door. could i have split the wire or something? I tested everything i could think of at the crossovers, and i don't think that its a problem with signals coming from my amp (switched wires from amp but problem still persisted at the doors).

not really sure how i can check the wires themselves? or the connections to the speakers? the wires were "quick disconnected" or whatever those terminals are called to the speakers. and they were a real pain to get on the speaker terminals.

speakers are Image Dynamics CTX65cs and CTX65 coaxials. cars a 2013 wrx.

amps a polk audio PA4000D.4

open to any ideas/suggestions

[Sergeant_Skyrim]

Are you sure you didn't mix up some of the wires? Are the left and right sides of the car running to different channels on the amp perhaps and the gains are mismatched slightly?

[wrexxy]

i labeled the wires... but i could have screwed up the labeling, added to my list of things to do to diagnose the problem

[wrexxy]

also, the left front tweeter seems to be cutting in and out. it'll sound at the same level as the front right and then i turn up the volume and then the volume decreases noticably to that of the woofer on the left side

[Dan2427]

I had had that with my focal speakers.. But the JL mid in the back was blow and when I turned it up it would cut out all together. Sometimes crackle and make my other speakers sound bad too.

[ham4864]

bench test the speakers to see if the problem is still there. Then report back.

[wrexxy]

so i pulled out my DMM and check some of the ohm readings at different places in my system.

The two left speaker wires, from the amp are reading 0.4 ohms (negative and positive of one wire), when checking against ground they were ~2 ohms if i remember

The two right speaker wires read ~4 ohms (negative and positive of one wire), i didn't check against ground.

I checked at the crossovers:

the right tweeter was surprisingly low, around ~1 ohm even though it seems to be working.

the right woofer read ~ 4 ohms

the left tweeter read about ~0.8 ohms

the left woofer read about ~0.8 ohms as well

So what blows me away is i literally just hooked the system up this morning and it sounded this way from the get go (after setting the gains with an oscope and test tones i got from this site some post about "tunes and tones")

Are the speakers blown or is the wire being grounded somehow? Or is there a way i can check the actual speaker itself? I have a DMM and an o-scope

[ham4864]

bench test the speakers to see if the problem is still there. Then report back.

Take them out of the car and connect them a external audio source(bench test)

[pioneerforlife]

there is something either blown or wired incorrectly. try pulling out the woofers and tweeters and test them outside of the car. if it reads the same outside the car, there is probably something wrong with the speakers. if it reads correctly, either something is wired wrong, or you have some split wires somewhere.

[wrexxy]

i don't really have anyway of testing the speaker out of the car. i can swap speakers (L/R) in the car and see if the problem switches sides