Guest Guest_Ross_* Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 I just bought a 96 850 wagon a few weeks ago. it has the premium sound system in it and it sounds pretty good for a factory system. However, when the volume is quite high and there is a low bass note or bass drum in the music, my left rear door speaker pops. Does anyone know what this could be? I don't know a lot about audio equipment but I figure it's not blown because aside from this situation it seems to work fine. Is this something that can be fixed? Or am I better off replacing it? I asked someone at an electronics store about it and they suggested I look around on some forums for what would be best to do. I've looked around here a lot and found some helpful information but am just looking for a little more. I'm on a limited budget, but am considering just replacing all my door speakers with infinity references or kappa's. Any help is appreciated, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burchs1 Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Ross,Welcome to Volvospeed. Someone here will be able to help you. Please register, fill out your signature, and be sure to put your location in your signature..-ScottI just bought a 96 850 wagon a few weeks ago. it has the premium sound system in it and it sounds pretty good for a factory system. However, when the volume is quite high and there is a low bass note or bass drum in the music, my left rear door speaker pops. Does anyone know what this could be? I don't know a lot about audio equipment but I figure it's not blown because aside from this situation it seems to work fine. Is this something that can be fixed? Or am I better off replacing it? I asked someone at an electronics store about it and they suggested I look around on some forums for what would be best to do. I've looked around here a lot and found some helpful information but am just looking for a little more. I'm on a limited budget, but am considering just replacing all my door speakers with infinity references or kappa's. Any help is appreciated, thanks.← Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 get a small screwdriver and gently pry off the speaker grill and look at the speakersee if there are any cracks in the cone or notreplacing speakers is another optionmany enjoy the infinity reference series, but you'll have to disconnect the dash tweeters if you want the best out of the references Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin390 Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 might be a speaker on its way out (death) I would just pull the grills off each one (dash-these are usuallt FUBARed by years of exposure to the sun and carry 12 ohms, doors-look for the obvious tares then pull it out and measure the resistance with a volt meter, I think it should ohm out at 4 ohms, the rear door speakers pop off the plastic trim/grill look for obvious tares and measure ohms, rear deck you have to unbolt from inside the trunk to get the grills off but measure the ohm load on them too) also there is generally a sticker or its writen on the back of the speaker how many ohms it should have hope this helpswelcome aboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossco Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Thanks for the tips...i'll check it out when I get a chance. I was looking around on the Infinity website and it claims the my car has 6x9's in the rear doors? Is this true? I was under the understanding that all the doors had 5.25's from the factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin390 Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 I am not sure about the wagons but I can tell you the front doors are 5.25" and the tweeter on the dash is a 1.5" as for the rear I dont know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWagin Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Rear Doors have an interesting cut out but a 6X9 is def not an option. More like 6.5 or 5.25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossco Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 ok, i finally got a chance to work on it today and i got the speaker out, but as i'm sure most of you know, it has the large plastic casing on it. to put in a new speaker, do i need to have that casing on the new speaker? is it possible to get it off of the old speaker without breaking it? it seems to be glued on. aside from that, this seems like it should be quite simple to swap. let me know if i'm being naive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted July 20, 2005 Report Share Posted July 20, 2005 I am not sure about the wagons but I can tell you the front doors are 5.25" and the tweeter on the dash is a 1.5" as for the rear I dont know.←Rear speakers are 5.25", and the rear tweeters are identical to the stock front tweeters. In fact, one of my rear tweets were toast, and I swapped it with one of my front tweets since I am not using the front tweets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick. Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 I'd go ahead and replace all of your speakers w/ infinitys if you have the $$, definitely worth while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 I'd go ahead and replace all of your speakers w/ infinitys if you have the $$, definitely worth while←I agree. And if you do this disconnect the front tweeters as it will be too much high end, and follow my instructions and put 6.5" in the rear doors.So that's 5.25" Inifinty's in front doors, disconnected front tweets, 6.5" Infinity's in rear door, keep stock rear tweets. Once you do that it sounds 10xs better than stock. And if you want a little more punch to the bass add a powered sub in the back (you can tap the audio signal from a rear tweeter just like the optional VOlvo rear subwoofer does it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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