LittleFish
Enthusiast
Yes, mine are marked on the speaker as well, BUT I clipped the wires prior without confirming my connection. Whoops.
We installed them in my 05 a couple of days ago. We were surprised that there were no speaker enclosures behind the stock speakers, so we put some in. The Polks are definitely an improvement over stock, and for less than $100, a great buy! I don't know why there's so much conversation over the wiring. Both the Polks and the stock speakers are clearly marked.
We installed them in my 05 a couple of days ago. We were surprised that there were no speaker enclosures behind the stock speakers, so we put some in. The Polks are definitely an improvement over stock, and for less than $100, a great buy! I don't know why there's so much conversation over the wiring. Both the Polks and the stock speakers are clearly marked.
clearly marked saying black as positive or negative
4) HOW TO WIRE - **IMPORTANT - GREEN GOES TO NEGATIVE / BLACK GOES TO POSITIVE -
LOL ONLY DODGE WOULD MAKE IT LIKE THIS, DO NOT PUT BLACK HARNESS WIRE TO NEGATIVE
POST, TRUST ME ON THIS** - SOUND CHECK WAS DONE BOTH WAYS TO DETERMINE THIS!
We installed them in my 05 a couple of days ago. We were surprised that there were no speaker enclosures behind the stock speakers, so we put some in. The Polks are definitely an improvement over stock, and for less than $100, a great buy! I don't know why there's so much conversation over the wiring. Both the Polks and the stock speakers are clearly marked.
clearly marked saying black as positive or negative
Yes black is clearly marked negative on both the 05 factory and Polk replacements.
The reason for all the conversation is step #4 provided in the original installation instructions.
4) HOW TO WIRE - **IMPORTANT - GREEN GOES TO NEGATIVE / BLACK GOES TO POSITIVE -
LOL ONLY DODGE WOULD MAKE IT LIKE THIS, DO NOT PUT BLACK HARNESS WIRE TO NEGATIVE
POST, TRUST ME ON THIS** - SOUND CHECK WAS DONE BOTH WAYS TO DETERMINE THIS!
Tom did you test them again?
Tom did you test them again?
yes i did and I WAS WRONG ON THE WIRE CONNECTIONS
THE CORRECT WAY TO WIRE THE SPEAKERS - BLACK TO NEGATIVE
GREEN TO POSITIVE
WHEN I DID MY 03 BLACK WENT TO POSITIVE AND GREEN TO NEGATIVE, may have just
been that car, as we all are aware these are hand built so i think wire's must
have been reversed somehow.
anyhow i change my connections tonight and the sound was sooooooooooo much
better.
SORRY ALL FOR NOT CHECKING THIS RIGHT AWAY WHEN I DID MY 04, JUST GOES TO SHOW-
NEVER ASSUME ALWAYS CHECK.
I WOULD CHANGE MY ORIGINAL POST BUT IT'S TO LATE, HOPE ALL WILL READ THIS
UPDATE.
GOOD LUCK AND AGAIN I AM SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE.
TOM
Tom easy mistake to make!! Still a great thread...because of it I ordered a set of Polks for my Viper and I bet many others have as well! They should be sending you something to thank you for all the db650 sales
Ok, I want the sicko of the speaker award.
Hows this for in a Mamba!
Used red tennis racket dye and testors for the tweeter!
LOL!
I LIKE IT!!!
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all spkrs come with a positive and negitive terminal, to determine which factory wire is the positive, take a Nine volt battery and touch the positive of the nine volt to what you think is the postive of the spkr, If the spkr moves forward it is positive (in phase) is the spkr moves backwards (out of phase) it is negative. Being is phase is very important to better sound. Haveing 3 spkrs in phase and 1 spkr out of phase, will make sound quality very poor. Having them hooked up back wards does not produce 2 ohms. say for instance you want 8 ohms from a 4 ohm spkr. you wire the spkrs in series, Now lets say you want 2 ohms from a 4 ohm spkr well you wire the spkrs in parrell to get two ohms. The 2 ohm application is mainly used on subs, Need to make sure your amp is capible of handling 2 ohms.wrond my ass, both speakers came with positive and negative markings on them, if you have them hooked up backwards mabey your running them at 2ohms or something
spkrs being out of phase can cause you to blow your spkrs, because you are wanting to turn it up very loud.I just fried one of my Polks. I guess keeping the top down and the volume at 32 will do that. Maybe it was because my wires were backwards? It sounded so good though! I think I'll spring for the $200 6 1/2" speakers this time. Maybe they will last longer.
Sh***y there that bad eh! Was black your positive or negative?
running a spkr out of phase will cause spkr damage (at low volume no it wont) at high volume yes it will.I went back to my original post on installing these to see how long I'd had them. August 16,2004! So I destroyed them in just 10 months.
My wiring was green + and black - from the beginning. That's the way I was always taught wiring should be. I listened to it both ways when I installed it and thought it sounded better this way. I'll try both again with the new speakers.
Original post stated that in our cars, green is - and black in +. Still, running a speaker out of phase doesn't hurt it. It just cancels out the sound of the other speakers running in phase.
OK, FYI
Polks are on sale for $85 at Circuit city, I bought em today.
2nd with all the green pos, blk pos talk in here, i decided to do the 9v battery test.
Worked great!
My 04 Mamba was green positive.
Anyone else sick enough to do the color on the cone, beware enamel or dye will NOT work.
Get tennis racket logo ink. Made to dye Poly materials.