Car Speaker Setup Diagram

This diagram shows the layout of a common car audio system and signal flow.

Car speaker setup diagram. As you can see in the diagram below all of the positive speaker connections are connected and then connected to the positive terminal of the amplifier. The stock speaker systems that come in many new cars are to put it simply are often lousy. Car audio system signal flow.

The dotted black line shows the path of the preamp audio signal before it s amplified from a head unit through an equalizer and electronic crossover and to the amplifier. Remote and rca wires are always small people tend to underestimate the amount and size of wires that they need when installing many components in a car audio systems. If you have the chance of using 6 gauge wires as your power instead of 8 then do so.

After your wires are put into place all you have to do is attach them to your speakers. For power ground and speaker wires the lower the number and thicker the wire the better. Redraw the circuit diagram and replace speakers a and b with zab to represent the new equivalent load impedance.

Follow the general rule. The job of a crossover also called a passive crossover because it use basic capacitors and inductors rather than electronics is to restrict the music production each speaker tries to produce. A prebuilt subwoofer or speaker box like in my car 2.

It doesn t have anything to do with squeezing every last bit out of a car audio capacitor or adding an additional battery. Then repeat the calculation using speakers c and d. Since each of the speakers is rated at 4 ohms the equivalent load impedance for each series wired speaker pair is 8 ohms.

Luckily not only are after market speakers a relatively cost effective way to boost your car s audio capabilities but also are generally easy to install though the sheer number of speakers available means that some will be more difficult to work with than others. Wiring to your speakers attach all the trim but leave the ends of the speaker wire you need to plug into the speakers sub out. It isn t some byzantine formula that s used to calculate speaker power levels or optimal speaker placements.