Hi,

I have a 2000 civic si (Canadian model) and was curious does anyone know what the coloured wires represent for Left/Right front OEM speakers?

I replaced my OEM's and I'm curious if I hooked them up to the appropriate +/- terminals (the OEM speakers didn't indicate which terminal was +/-).

If I hooked up my aftermarket spaeakers to the wrong terminal, would I know right away (i.e. they wouldn't produce sound at all). Or would I get a weak / phase cancellation effect?

Thanks!

 

the darker color is negative, lighter is positive. my civics wireswere all messed up cus the left had greenand darkgreen wires and my right has blue and dark blue....but yeah darker is negative

 

thanks... so if i connected them the other way around, would I still have sound?

 

Yes you would have sound but it wouldn't sound right. There would be very poor bass response. Also the stereo effect would be messed up. It would sound very "wide" almost like everything in the band is localized at the two speakers instead of coming from the center of the car. This is especially apparent on a mono signal.

If you haven't buttoned everything up yet you could reverse one of the speakers to see what it sounds like. Also turn the fader all the way to front so you aren't distracted by the rear speakers. Note it is possible to have the fronts in phase with each other, and the rears, but not in phase front to rear. That is harder to hear but the best way is to turn the balance all the way left or right and again listen for the unnatural "wide" effect.

 

thanks for the info... i think that's what I'm hearing (low bass response). So adrian64 mentioned that the darker wires are negative and lighter are positive. I think I had a weird wiring colour combo too...
ex..
left terminal=blue+dark blue wires
right terminal=green+dark green wires

So am I to assume that in the above example, the blue+dark blue wires would be connected to the negative speaker terminal (since they're darker than green)?