Speaker Wireing for 6N2
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:40 pm
I did this for Club Lupo, and thought it may be intresting to you?
A year or so again, I spoke to M1 Lupo who told me that when he replaced his speakers he had found they were wired to show 8ohms.
I've been trying to get my head around the engine wiring loom, and spotted this which if you look at it, it seems to confirm this.
I've been saying for a long time, that when I gave these standard speakers what I thought would be 80wrms they sounded fantastic.
That was using the standard wiring, so in reality the maximum WRMS would have been 40.
No we know that the mids play full range, and we also know that the tweeters have filter built in so no cross over is needed.
This is really for the non GTI owners out there, using an after market head unit connected directly to the standard speakers.
As you only have front speakers, you will be wasting the use of the front and rear function of your head unit.
I also don't have rear speaker, nor do I use the internal amp.
I use the front RCAs to power my tweeter amp, and the rear RCAs to power the mids.
This means, I can adjust the fader to add or lose tweeter volume on different tracks.
If you run new cables to the standard speakers, from your after market head unit.
Connecting the mids to the rear, and tweeters to the front, not only will you have greater control over the sound in your car, but the speaker will be wired to show a 4ohm load on the head unit amp instead of 8ohm.
Thus doubling the head unit power.
In other words, lets say you bought a Alpine head unit with "4 x 60w" and connected it up to the standard speakers, the head unit amp would really only be providing 4 x 30w
Its going to cost less than £10 for the speaker cable, and the job would take less than a day.
Any other benefit for you new style Alpine owners would have, is being able to filer the high stuff from your mids so waste less power for the mid range you want.
The tweeters wouldn't need much power, I think mine are faded around -7 to -11 depending on the track.
A year or so again, I spoke to M1 Lupo who told me that when he replaced his speakers he had found they were wired to show 8ohms.
I've been trying to get my head around the engine wiring loom, and spotted this which if you look at it, it seems to confirm this.
I've been saying for a long time, that when I gave these standard speakers what I thought would be 80wrms they sounded fantastic.
That was using the standard wiring, so in reality the maximum WRMS would have been 40.
No we know that the mids play full range, and we also know that the tweeters have filter built in so no cross over is needed.
This is really for the non GTI owners out there, using an after market head unit connected directly to the standard speakers.
As you only have front speakers, you will be wasting the use of the front and rear function of your head unit.
I also don't have rear speaker, nor do I use the internal amp.
I use the front RCAs to power my tweeter amp, and the rear RCAs to power the mids.
This means, I can adjust the fader to add or lose tweeter volume on different tracks.
If you run new cables to the standard speakers, from your after market head unit.
Connecting the mids to the rear, and tweeters to the front, not only will you have greater control over the sound in your car, but the speaker will be wired to show a 4ohm load on the head unit amp instead of 8ohm.
Thus doubling the head unit power.
In other words, lets say you bought a Alpine head unit with "4 x 60w" and connected it up to the standard speakers, the head unit amp would really only be providing 4 x 30w
Its going to cost less than £10 for the speaker cable, and the job would take less than a day.
Any other benefit for you new style Alpine owners would have, is being able to filer the high stuff from your mids so waste less power for the mid range you want.
The tweeters wouldn't need much power, I think mine are faded around -7 to -11 depending on the track.