Purchased Double Din in dash navi unit. Kenwood DNX5120
I have the direct connect iPod hook up.
I replaced all four speakers with Pioneer 6 x 8’s.
There is a factory sub, and amp. In order to use it with the Kenwood, I purchased the wiring harness from Metra (#70-5521)
The fronts and rears worked fine, before I connected the factory sub. However, once I connected the factory sub, the rears stopped working. The sound itself, is great. Loud, full, very nice and I’m pleased with it. The sub makes up for the rear’s not working.
However, I would like them to work. Any idea on why them might not?
If I fuck with the balance and fade, and send it all the way to the back left…nothing. If i send it all the way to the back right, just the sub.
PS- I had to solder in a resister because the factory amp takes 5v and the new headunit would put out 12. On start-up people were having issues with the sub making a “popping” noise…so this eliminated the “pop” they said. I don’t think that the resistor would fuck up the speakers though…
It is better without them anyway.
On a more serous note - so the rear speakers are hooked upto /amplified by the head unit or are they driven by the factory amp?
It sounds like a head unit setting issue more than anything. Do you have the rear optput set to a low pass crossover or something?
some of those explorers had some funky wiring, i remember some of them needed the factory amp bypassed completely, some of them worked with the harness and some didn’t. not sure if that was for 02’s or not though… BDR would probably know this better than me, or send a pm to Supry
my front and rear speakers only have a High pass, no low. The sub has low though. I fucked around with it. i set the front hz to 60 i think. and the rears to 120 or 220 maybe? it sounds better.
i think they may be working, but just very very very high frequencies with the sub taking the lows…
IDK anything about this shit. All i know is when i adjust the rear crossover’s the sound changes…so they are probably working somewhat…?
Running high (>100) to a sub usually sounds odd (like you’d be able to tell where exactly the sub is in the car), but shouldn’t be harmful. Running very low frequencies to speakers that can’t handle them(like running signal that doesn’t have a high pass directly to the tweeters) is bad and can fry them - but you’re not going to have those issues with 6" speakers since the main driver is big enough and the built-in tweeter has a crossover attached to it.
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