6.5" speaker crossover help wanted

[TypeR rated]

Hi guys. I bought a car last year which I'm restoring, The car has a nice pioneer bluetooth headunit and cerwin vega component front and rear speakers with all the wiring setup for two amps ( 1 for sub, other for speakers)

Now my problem is that when I bought the car from auction it has had the rear crossover boxes removed from previous owner, I have googled these speakers and hav found that they are highly rated for quality and I would like to keep them but I need some more crossover boxes.

My question to you is can I use another crossover network without ruining the speakers or do I really need to have the original boxes to use these speakers??

I have 3 sets of other components from previous cars and was just wondering if it would be safe to use one of those crossover boxes.

[wrx_lou]

You would most likely be able to use another crossover but you would probably sacrifice the quality in doing so.

[TypeR rated]

I was half thinking that would be the case, just wasn't completely sure. Just saves me having to take the speakers out which is all in a custom tray install

[Scoobydoo]

Yeah you can, but it would never be the same as original. It won't have the same frequency cutoffs which those speakers were designed for, so you wouldn't be achieving the only good reason to keep them.

[WRXONP]

find out the frequency specs and compare . .

[spark_38]

What model are the components? Look them up and compare factory crossovers, perhaps get some to suit which are close enough.

These days $200-300 would get you some components that would probably be on-par with them anyway.

[TypeR rated]

Thanks guys. Car is hibernating from the snow in storage at mo but I'll note the model numbers down next time I drag it out seeing as tho I've lost the bit of paper I wrote the numbers down last time. I'll try and look at the crossover boxes from the fronts an see if they have the freq range on them somewhere.

[TypeR rated]

I went and had a look at car last nite and found the speakers are cerwin vega 6.5" vega 2650 Found some specs, crossovers have a 12db octave range and speakers operate at 60hz-20khz, 80w RMS, sensitivity at 88db.

[Scoobydoo]

Well if you want to run them actively off an amp, you can use the amp as the crossover for both woofers and tweeters. But you'll need a 4 channel amp, one channel for each speaker.

[TypeR rated]

 Scoobydoo said:

Well if you want to run them actively off an amp, you can use the amp as the crossover for both woofers and tweeters. But you'll need a 4 channel amp, one channel for each speaker.

That is true, I hadn't thought of that. I shall look into that

[boon]

You'll need a pretty decent amp to get tweeter-worthy crossovers onboard - you'll need something up to 4khz, and most amps use 18db/octave crossovers so it might sound a little funky. Ideally you probably want around 4khz 12db/octave but without a processor/high end headunit/original crossover you might have a hard time getting it.