Stereo upgrade woes

[Detenator]

Im upgrading my stereo system (again). I put in new speakers into the doors, and silk dome tweeters into the dash (by the windshield). Those front speakers are powered by 2 small Jensen amps (40w) wired into the power source that the head unit (Blaupunkt cd player) uses, and the remote turn-on is wired into the head unit. The tweeters have bass blocking capacitors at around 1.2kHz. The trouble is that the tweeters are very quiet and the door speakers don't play at all. I checked the speaker wiring, and that isn't the problem. I honestly don't know where to continue looking from here. Do any of you stereo masterminds know where to go next?

 

[shoRunner]

Uhh I don't believe it is recommended to run an amp off the power wire for your head unit. You really ought to run a wire from the battery to the amp. I don't know if this is the problem, but it could be.

 

[SHO--ripper]

shorunner i totally agree. Detenator you should run a power cord from your battery to your amp. Then a seperate one to line in/out on your headunit. If this doesn't work make sure all the wires are spliced with the correct ones. Good luck. thumbs_u

 

[LOUDSHO92]

Yes use at least an 8guage wire for the amps to power them. Also ground the amps in your trunk. If its a capacitator well it wont do much for blocking bass. It sounds like you got one of the $2 special tweeters. Not very good, get ones with good cross overs. How do you have the tweeters and speakers wired up?