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@SlowX6M yes you are right. They are the same 4" speaker but have different brackets or bezels. I'm fairly sure that all e70 audio systems use the smaller bracket type in all speaker locations. Like I said though the bigger bracket fits in the front door of my e90 335d so I'll be using them in my e90 with a set of infinity tweeters.
Yes that would be nice to know the impedance of the b&w tweeters to see what the final impedance would be using both speakers in parallel...
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In post 79 and 82, schematic, the three pins are labeled 3, 4, 5. They go to the front door diplexers and help create a parallel wiring scheme to provide LPF to the midrange and HPF to to the tweeter.
I think the center channel location is fed by the amp. BMW specs say the S752A amp is 9 channel (two d-pillars, four door, one center, two subs).
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Well from what I gathered from the wire diagram argento provided... the power comes from the amp, goes to the 2 pin connector (pin 1: is negative, pin 2: is positive). Pin 1 goes to midrange negative, pin 2 gets jumped to pin 3 on the three pin connector.
Then on the three pin connector, pin 3 (which is positive) goes to the diplexor pin 9 then gets split and runs through each filter. Pin 4 is negative from diplexor pin 8 (jumping to pin 1). Then pin 5 is positive (filtered signal) going to the midrange, from the diplexor pin 7. So the midrange and tweeter are wired in parallel which brings the final impedance to about 2.6ohms. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm guessing they had to use a 3 pin connector to keep the speakers in parallel, otherwise they'd be in series and we don't want that. The center channel should have its own channel on the amp because you'd run into phase issues. The diplexor adds a whole lot to the wiring, where you could use a simple crossover and make the wiring a lot simpler.
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RL18 Heads up, I updated the original schematic in post 82, so please update this one ^ or reference back to the original that I keep updating.
As my pin tracing is continuously improving, I realized Pin 7 and 9 are indeed continuous, but only because I think the path goes 9 to Lm to 7, not directly from 9 to 7. I also found you can reuse the oem S752A diplexer but requires soldering to the new B&W midrange. However, due to higher impedance of the B&Ws, the xo filter points drop. The custom XO is the way forward...but I'll leave a little room for the F90 diplexer which I have on order. I should be able to at least determine the XO points that diplexer is using.
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I do have some audiopipe crossovers that I'll be testing soon with crossovers set points as: woofer: 20hz-4.3khz Tweeters: 3.39khz-20khz Which I'm thinking is exactly what we need since the crossover points are pretty ideal and they're relatively cheap at $25 for a pair. I just want to be sure these work as intended before I recommend them. Once supplies starts coming in I'll be updating my current system and get some data on how the reworked system performs.
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Are those xo points calculated or of your choosing? ALSO, sorry, had to update the schematic again...the front door uses -193 tweeters at 8 ohms (not the -194 at 4 ohms), so xo point changed.
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Those are crossover points given by the manufacturer. Once I play with the tuning on my dsp I'll find out if these are really doing their job. I'm hoping that these b&w speakers can take a little lower frequency than the grs midranges. Right now I have it cut off at 150hz, I'd like to get below 100hz if I can.
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Here's a visual of the difference in the b&w speakers. Left is the door speakers, which DO NOT fit in e70s. Right is the center channel speaker, which DOES fit in e70s
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Are the connectors the same on both speakers?
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Yes the speaker on the left just has it pointing down (if it was installed) rather than the right which has the connector pointing towards the back. Same 2-two pin connectors though
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SlowX6M.... i have a question. Why didn't you use the bower& wilkins back door tweeters for the front doors? As i recall you said you are going to use some infinity instead of b&w diamond tweeters?
By the way much respect for your info and work..... i have a e70 with top hi-hi audio and i am in the process of swapping some bowers wilkins speakers |
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We I have some interesting news... I ended up installing the b&w midranges just in the front doors, with the crossovers wired in. I ran into a few obstacles but have figured out where to go from here. Here are a few things I noticed anyways...
The impedance is about 1.9ohms as measured. They do sound great btw and I'll be sitting down and tuning them in the dsp to get full potential soon, they are running the tune for my grs midrange without any distortion though. Also with the crossover installed the sound was also MUCH cleaner, no more screeching at high volumes. I can't really tell if it's the speakers upgraded or the added crossover points that are making it sound better though. Now like argento pointed out, using a speaker with a different impedance than the crossover was designed for will "shift" the crossover points. My final impedance of about 1.9ohms paired with these 4ohm crossovers has a slight shift in crossover points. So my crossover points are a bit higher not a big deal though the midranges still play very clearly. The tweeters are just using the supplied hpf for its filtering. Today I'll will be swapping the rest of the speakers and putting the supplied infinity hpf back in the front, then later I can swap the crossovers for a higher midrange cutoff. Edited: not sure what kind of tricks my meter was playing but the speakers did measure out to about 2ohms not 10ohms after checking again.
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So I've spent a few days tuning in the dsp to get these b&w woofers reproducing correctly with the infinity tweeters. I still need to play with the accubass level and threshold setting on my dsp since I haven't turned it on yet but I feel like the b&w are clearer and handle the midrange better than the grs woofers even without it. Tuning the tweeters was a bit of a challenge since the b&w handle much more power but I did get them tuned up to compliment the b&w's nonetheless. Overall I'm pretty satisfied with the output.
If you do decided to go with these I think I would recommend using the matching b&w tweeters or use a tweeter with an impedance of 6ohms for a final impedance around 3.6 ohms I just think the tweeter and midrange would just be better matched level wise at that impedance. You could do a 4ohm tweeter and it would probably be louder but I'm just unsure if the factory eq has enough adjustment to match the midrange and tweeter level. On another note, I think I'll be experimenting further with these woofers by putting together a 3-way system for the d-pillar speakers, which depending on how that goes I may apply to the front and rear doors or just create another channel in the trunk. Not really sure which I'll choose, but I'll probably be cutting some holes either way. I just don't feel like these 4" midranges can mesh with the 8" underseats without one or the other reaching their limit as far as frequency range goes. So I want to find a solution to help fill from about 250hz to 500hz and maybe get some extra bass too.
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