Busted Mid range

**bigpapa** · May 19th, 2011 12:33 AM

Good day mga Ser. I fried my 5" mid range (component set) and am not about to buy a new set for a single broken speaker. So I bought 6" dual cone speakers (Pioneer) to replace both mid range speakers. Any thoughts, if I made a BIG mistake? Impedance of the old and new are both 4 0hms. RMS rates are close enough. New speakers are 6".

**jhnkvn** · May 19th, 2011 01:41 AM

Well, I'm not sure how you managed to fry your 5 1/2" midbass (if that's a component set, that's midbass and tweeter) but your car (90%+ of cars) should be able to accomodate the 6 1/2 inch Pioneer midbass.

As a general classification guide:
Most midbass is around 5-7 inches
Midrange is normally 3-4 inches
Tweets are normally 1 inch
Subwoofers are normally 8-18 inches

**bigpapa** · May 19th, 2011 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by jhnkvn

Well, I'm not sure how you managed to fry your 5 1/2" midbass (if that's a component set, that's midbass and tweeter) but your car (90%+ of cars) should be able to accomodate the 6 1/2 inch Pioneer midbass.

As a general classification guide:
Most midbass is around 5-7 inches
Midrange is normally 3-4 inches
Tweets are normally 1 inch
Subwoofers are normally 8-18 inches

Thanks sa info ser. One channel of my eq got busted, I probably didn't notice it that much until now. That might have affected my midrange.I guess I've been listening with distortion in one of the channels (right ch) for quite some time already and didn't notice it. Hope the "Pioneers" would match with the passive x-over since dual cones have the tendency of sounding "bright".