I recently bought a 2010 JK Jeep Wrangler 2 Door Sport and was disappointed with the sound. I opted to keep my REL head unit (not infinity) to keep the features U-Connect, iPod integration etc etc. I bought front splits, rear speakers and amplifier, all Kicker. I then fitted the speakers myself, following the various posts on here (thankyou). I used the main speaker line into the front speakers and fed that into the crossovers, back out to the front tweeters and new front speakers. Back speakers were easy and used original wiring. Then I took my JK to a specialist fitter, to have the amp fitted and tuned. When listening to the radio, there is no distortion, however, when I listen to music off the iPod or CD the front tweeters fart like nothing else. I have adjusted the fade to the rear but I am now being blasted by music from behind!!!

Should I have used the original tweeter line?

Any other ideas?

 

Did you forget to plug the flux capacitor into the hanny franny? Just bustin' on ya dude....wish I could help, my buddy does/did all my stereo shit for me.....

 

That's because whomever u took it to obviously tuned your amplifier using the radio. You NEVER tune to the radio!!! You need to plug in an iPod or use a cd that you can turn up loud and tune to the same song over and over until it is at a good quality. You should just tune it yourself it's very easy.

 

X2! Radio doesn't provide the quality and crisp sound that a cd/iPod can produce. Take it back to them and have them retune it and explain the problem. Or do it yourself of you know how. But if you don't then leave it to the people who get paid to do it. I can't tell you how many times we have a car come in with blown/distorted speakers because they thought they knew how to do it themselves. (I work at a car audio shop)

 

I have a feeling that because you tapped an already crossed over signal that was primarily receiving lower range frequencies your now playing signals that your tweeter cannot reproduce? The radio cannot play a frequency range effectively into the upper registers like cd, iPod or satellite can, which might be why you don't hear it with just radio?

 

Ok, so should I rewire the tweeters back to the original wiring?

 

Yes I would otherwise you might need to use a signal summing device to achieve full frequency range to send to your aftermarket components. Without changing out the head unit you are going to have crossed over signals feeding your amps and/or speakers.

 

So you have aftermarket component speakers for the front correct? If so your crossover should be hooked up as follows:

Line in: use the wires from the vehicle side of the factory mid for your line in just make sure u have the +/- correct.

Woofer: this will be the wire coming from your new aftermarket mid speaker

Tweet: wire coming from aftermarket tweeter

If it is set up like this on either side then you should have no problem

 

Have worked it out!!! I rewired the front speakers direct from amp to avoid the factory cross-overs and then set the amp to take the output from the head unit front speakers line, so the back speakers would get that feed as well. Perfect!!