I have a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has the Infinity speaker system in it, with the tweeters installed in the dash.
The right tweeter has gone bad. I want an equally good or better replacement brand. Has anyone replaced these tweeters, and can recommend a brand? Are they hard to replace? Should they be replaced in pairs ??
Very easy to replace, best to replace them in pairs. I had one go and several months later the second one went. I just bought OEM speakers from Wyckoff Chrysler On-line Parts Department. $44.95 each plus shipping. Shop around, they may be cheaper elsewhere. Here's the part #56038411AC and description: "Jeep Grand Cherokee Infinity Dash Speakers -Tweeters"
Top panel of dash just pops off, only held down by some clips. Slide a 1 to
2 inch putty knife underneath one of the front corners, passenger side is easiest to get to, and gently pry up. Once one of the clips pops off you can work your way to the other end. Clips are near the bottom of the windshield if I remember right. Speakers are held in with two screws (need a short screwdriver here because of the windshield slope) and then there is the speaker connecter. Panel is easy to replace, just line up and push down on the clips.
In article , Kevin Swan wrote: #Very easy to replace, best to replace them in pairs. I had one go and #several months later the second one went. I just bought OEM speakers from #Wyckoff Chrysler On-line Parts Department. $44.95 each plus shipping. Shop #around, they may be cheaper elsewhere. Here's the part #56038411AC and #description: "Jeep Grand Cherokee Infinity Dash Speakers -Tweeters"
I went the Wyckoff route as well. They were cheaper than the OEM ones listed on eBay.
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If you do buy two speakers from them, keep the card that they will put in the shipment. It's got a code for a discount on your next purchase.
#Top panel of dash just pops off, only held down by some clips. Slide a 1 to #2 inch putty knife underneath one of the front corners, passenger side is #easiest to get to, and gently pry up. Once one of the clips pops off you can #work your way to the other end. Clips are near the bottom of the windshield #if I remember right. Speakers are held in with two screws (need a short #screwdriver here because of the windshield slope) and then there is the #speaker connecter. Panel is easy to replace, just line up and push down on #the clips.
Depends. The lower frequencies heat up the tweeter. The power rating for a tweeter is based on being crossed over at a specific frequency.
Generally you are correct. The goal in building a good audio system is to prevent damage no matter what joe goober does to the audio level.
It's nice to play Snoopy and the Red Barron at a dB level that drowns out the surround rap music. That or polka music. :] I'm evil.
Just so you know I'm not talking out my ass here. ^_^
I run a 300W system and used to compete in IASCA. It is impossible to blow the speakers in my Jeep. Unless you have a tiny screwdriver to run the amplifiers bias up. The whole system was designed to have near zero noise playing a 0bit track and no distortion playing whitenoise at full volume.
Of course that's about 5grand in audio equipment. damn my hobbies! :/
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rest is down on this page.http://revbeergoggles.com/zj.html Installed in 1993, competed for seven years, several trophies and other stuff. Never made the nationals as there are too many competitions required to get the points. Only lost one speaker and that was due to age. One of the MB Quart 160 speakers finally surrendered to foam breakdown. Cool thing is that I contacted MB Quart and asked them if they still made replacements. They actually wanted my old speaker for forensics since it was top of the line when I first bought it. They cut me a deal for below wholesale on a brand new set of their new reference line, with crossovers. :D
Every now and then I think about just going nuts and building the ZJ back to competition level. Something with a nice round 5000 watts and watch the Jeep shake apart.
Classical music, particularly organ pedal, bassoon, bass violin. Even fancy liquid cooled tweeters like a Vifa are designed to handle only a very few watts in systems designed to handle hundreds of watts.
[Caution, Telarc/Vanguard junkie] I have the old original LP Telarc 1812 and the new digital version. Although it had a reputation for damaging speakers, there are other Telarc recordings of more speaker damaging capability, such as Don Dorsey's "Ascent" which if memory serves was their highest output according to Jake Renner. The bass transients at the beginning of that are higher than those of the juiced up Telarc
1812, followed by the stereotypical 16 Hz low organ tone. The worst recording I've ever seen is Digital Domain which has the Big Note followed by a hopped up 747 in a take off roll over a coupla Crown PZM's. That one tore the bass cone of a Voice of the Theater and popped the dust cap off an M&K subwoofer.
However the worst thing I've ever seen for tweeters is a 0 dB down set of warbles from 19 to 20.5 Khz on a Denon demo CD. Blew the liquid cooled tweeters on my M&K satellites with a HK Citation amp wound up.
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