[geeks] Need Input...

[Andrew Weiss]

I just did major surgery on the doors of my girlfriend's 96 Saturn SC1 
coupe in order to replace her factory speakers with a pair of 6.5" 4 Ohm 
120 Watt 2-way treated paper cones that were free with her new CD 
player/radio.

Question is... does anyone have any warnings or suggestions... because 
the originals were 10 Ohm, and hooked to the factory stereo... I 
replaced only the front speakers and the stereo... now sound sounds 
localized towards the rear of the vehicle... the new speakers do work, 
however.  My thought would be that the front ones would be overdriven 
and louder due to a lower resistance... shows what I know about audio...

We may replace the rears later...

Surgery was cutting notches top and bottom of the ring that the speaker 
sits in, and then screwing the new speakers to the plastic cup the old 
ones sat in with newly made holes from a soldering iron...  I cut the 
mounting brackets that came with the kit and used them as backers.  I 
then used the speaker wires that came with the kit, hooked them to the 
speakers, and then soldered those to the plug bracket that I removed 
from the old speakers so they fit with the built-in harness... I didn't 
trim the length of the new wires... I wrapped the leftover in a bundle 
with a twist tie and laid it in the door... Am I being affected by wire 
length, resistance problems, or both...

Will the resistance difference be detrimental?

-Andrew
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