2-Way Speakers

"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
08/19/2014 at 16:24 • Filed to: None

I know this means the speaker has a smaller tweeter inside of the woofer, but does that also mean they are automatically setup to work with a crossover? In other words do the tweeters wire up separately?

Reason I ask is that I just pulled some dead speakers off a boat equipped with crossovers so I'd like to get a speaker that will work with these crossovers, meaning it needs distinct hookups for the tweeter and woofer. I am however at a loss whether or not when a speaker says "2-way" it means that they will hook up to a crossover.

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DISCUSSION (8)

505Turbeaux > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/19/2014 at 16:28

usually the "crossover" or resistor is integral to the speaker itself. I have seen them with separate hookups a few times in the past

lone_liberal > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/19/2014 at 16:30

Usually a two-way, or coaxial, speaker only has one speaker wire hookup. You could hook it to a crossover and it would only produce the frequencies sent to it.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > 505Turbeaux
08/19/2014 at 16:31

Hmm, the speakers in this boat were fairly old, they are very nice, but they no longer work.

So you are thinking with a more modern speaker we'll likely end up eliminating the crossover?

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > lone_liberal
08/19/2014 at 16:32

Hmm, ok. Maybe the speakers I pulled out being older is why it had two distinct hookups because external crossovers were more common back then?

lone_liberal > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/19/2014 at 16:35

That could be, or they were specifically built that way to produce stereo from a single speaker. I have such a speaker in the one and only front speaker mount in the dash of a Camaro.

505Turbeaux > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/19/2014 at 16:36

yeah likely so

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > 505Turbeaux
08/19/2014 at 20:49

Talked to an audio guy, turns out what we need is a speaker that looks like a 2-way speaker, but it actually a component speaker. Thankfully this guy found some for us. It'll hookup to the crossover and produce better sound than a 2-way would.

505Turbeaux > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/20/2014 at 08:26

yeah those arent too easy to find in one unit. Cool!