howards11 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Last summer I replaced the speakers on my 2000 Forester. The front speakers are 6 1/2" Panasonic and the rear ones are 4" Sony. I am using a size adapter for the rear as the original ones are 5" and hard to find in a decent brand. All are working fine and sound fantastic ! Someone suggested using bass blockers on the rear speakers for better sound and "to protect them". They aren't expensive. Crutchfield carries them and I've seen them on eBay too. Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. ~Howard :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hklaine Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Are you severly overdriving the rear speakers? Is there distortion from the bass? If no, then I wouldn't worry about it. What do these bass blockers cost with respect to a new set of speakers? Turn it up! -Heikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards11 Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 Are you severly overdriving the rear speakers? Is there distortion from the bass? If no, then I wouldn't worry about it. What do these bass blockers cost with respect to a new set of speakers? Turn it up! -Heikki I don't think I'm overdriving any speaker. The rears sound fine to me. The cost of the blockers is $10 -$15. No big deal but I was just curious. ~Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOMAD327 Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 They are normally intended for installations where there are a pair of extremely small speakers mounted in the pillars or top of dashboard. A factory installation or one where all speakers are approximately the same size and power rating would not call for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards11 Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 They are normally intended for installations where there are a pair of extremely small speakers mounted in the pillars or top of dashboard. A factory installation or one where all speakers are approximately the same size and power rating would not call for them. The 4" Sony {XS-W4021} are mounted in the rear doors. The 6 1/2" Panasonic are mounted in the front doors. ~Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99obw Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 A bass-blocker is most likely just an electrolytic capacitor wired in series to act as a DC (in this case low frequency) blocker. My 5-1/4" Kenwoods have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards11 Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 A bass-blocker is most likely just an electrolytic capacitor wired in series to act as a DC (in this case low frequency) blocker. My 5-1/4" Kenwoods have them. That's exactly what they are. But are they necessary on the 4" speakers ? ~Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitz Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 If the speakers in question are physically bottoming-out at high volume, then "capping 'em off" will remedy the problem. Use the largest value that does the job, unless your deliberately trying to tune out some boxy-sounding low-mids (200-300 Hz), then go smaller. In a lower power system where the amp doesn't have the ability to bottom out the suspension, then there's no advantage to adding caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards11 Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 Here's the ones on eBay: Bass Blockers ~Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hondasucks Posted June 3, 2005 Share Posted June 3, 2005 I had a set in my 87 Hatchback, since I was driving my subs off the deck cuz I didnt' have enough $$$ for an amp at the time, I got the 150 Hz ones but I should have gotten like the 75Hz ones, the idea is that it'll take out the low frequencies that those small speakers wont' reproduce anyway, so the speakers won't distort at high volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howards11 Posted June 3, 2005 Author Share Posted June 3, 2005 Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions. I ordered the ones on eBay for my rear (4") speakers. ~Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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