Standard Z4 speakers
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udeo - I think a lot depends on what audio system you have fitted.
Pull off the door card speaker covers and see if you have speakers in there. That was the first place I looked and found they were blanking plates - I had the basic audio and just adding these made a massive difference
I'm also told the standard speakers are reasonably good.
Pull off the door card speaker covers and see if you have speakers in there. That was the first place I looked and found they were blanking plates - I had the basic audio and just adding these made a massive difference
I'm also told the standard speakers are reasonably good.
Yeah the standard speakers are great for everyday cruising since especially you have the OEM carver ten speaker system 
Just like Cj said, I suggest just adding onto the number of speakers instead of replacing them, unless your into professional car audio competitions then thats another story although in my opinion the standard speakers are already pretty good in the clarity department
Although if you really want to change them, blaupunkt or focal come into mind
Just like Cj said, I suggest just adding onto the number of speakers instead of replacing them, unless your into professional car audio competitions then thats another story although in my opinion the standard speakers are already pretty good in the clarity department Although if you really want to change them, blaupunkt or focal come into mind
cj10jeeper said:
Hi,
i'm newbie in the forum, and i look for the method to add a speaker in the door. I had a standard audio system (6 speakers).
I would like to know how to connect the speaker on the existing wiring inside the door ?
Thank you for your help
PS : excuse me for my bad english.
Alex99 said:cj10jeeper said:
Hi,
i'm newbie in the forum, and i look for the method to add a speaker in the door. I had a standard audio system (6 speakers).
I would like to know how to connect the speaker on the existing wiring inside the door ?
Thank you for your help
PS : excuse me for my bad english.
On the advice of a local audio shop I simply conected them in parallel with the tweeters in the door mirrors by tapping into the wiring loom in the door. They advised that since I was running a non amplified system then it would be a full signal going to those speakers and would therefore work well.
Truth is it does and very impressive for what it is.
You will need either the genuine BMW speakers that have 3 point fixing or to do some work on the door mounting to make normal 4 point speakers fit.
cj10jeeper said:Alex99 said:cj10jeeper said:
Hi,
i'm newbie in the forum, and i look for the method to add a speaker in the door. I had a standard audio system (6 speakers).
I would like to know how to connect the speaker on the existing wiring inside the door ?
Thank you for your help
PS : excuse me for my bad english.
On the advice of a local audio shop I simply conected them in parallel with the tweeters in the door mirrors by tapping into the wiring loom in the door. They advised that since I was running a non amplified system then it would be a full signal going to those speakers and would therefore work well.
Truth is it does and very impressive for what it is.
You will need either the genuine BMW speakers that have 3 point fixing or to do some work on the door mounting to make normal 4 point speakers fit.
Thank you,
Finally, i do not need to acces behind the car audio, but just connected those by using the wiring inside the door ?? Can you please tell me the color of the wire that i need ? :roll:
Alex99 said:
No, if you want to do the same as I did, you do not neet to get to the stereo, just inside the door
Take the inner door panel off. You will see a black wrapped wiring harness going up to the small speaker in the door mirror. It is those 2 wires. Sorry I do not have the colour, but you just tap into those with new speaker cables in parallel. It's very easy.
If you cut the foam insulation remember to rebuild a waterproof cover over the speaker.
Do you know how to take the door panel off?
If not look here http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2450085 for a good guide by Ron Stygar
If you want to upgrade easily, add a sub base like the Denon1000 it will be 100% better as the speakers use about 40% of their power to produce bass, I have done this and it sounds fantastic.
I wouldnt recommend just wiring speakers into the doors off the tweeter in parallel as this will halve the ohmes, thus cutting the output of the amp in half.
Then you could put a inline denon amp, with a three way hertz system, and that will sound unbelivably good, 9saving up for this myself
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I wouldnt recommend just wiring speakers into the doors off the tweeter in parallel as this will halve the ohmes, thus cutting the output of the amp in half.
Then you could put a inline denon amp, with a three way hertz system, and that will sound unbelivably good, 9saving up for this myself
)RustyZ4 said:If you want to upgrade easily, add a sub base like the Denon1000 it will be 100% better as the speakers use about 40% of their power to produce bass, I have done this and it sounds fantastic.
I wouldnt recommend just wiring speakers into the doors off the tweeter in parallel as this will halve the ohmes, thus cutting the output of the amp in half.
Then you could put a inline denon amp, with a three way hertz system, and that will sound unbelivably good, 9saving up for this myself
Rusty - Hands up that I'm no audio expert, but this change was tested and recommended by a top end audio shop, so I have no doubt it works OK and the in use application demonstrates it too. The speakers are wired in parallel not series so it does not affect the ohms, unless you tell me to the contrary?
Of course adding a base unit would be helpful too.
In reality the existing system shoudl realy have an amp added, or probablt trashed altogether. This being just a quick easy upgrade.
RustyZ4 said:If you want to upgrade easily, add a sub base like the Denon1000 it will be 100% better as the speakers use about 40% of their power to produce bass, I have done this and it sounds fantastic.
I wouldnt recommend just wiring speakers into the doors off the tweeter in parallel as this will halve the ohmes, thus cutting the output of the amp in half.
Then you could put a inline denon amp, with a three way hertz system, and that will sound unbelivably good, 9saving up for this myself
Any links to this install??
Ta