On a 98 2.5TL, what are the two speakers in the front dome light for? I could not find anything in the owners manual about them.

 

they're tweeters. you can replace those with aftermarket ones.

oh and by the way, WELCOME TO THE FORUM!

 

does it improve sound quality at atll to have tweeters up there?

 

everything I've read on this forum said its completely pointless to replace them... One guy who did said he got out of the car with his ears ringing and his head hurting every time... they're pretty close to your ears, not a place where you want/need a lot of sound

 

uh huh.. so thats a .. no? haha yeah anyway any ideas of what could be done with the free space?.. I'm thinking about putting a screen there instead of getting an in dash unit.. not sure yet

 

You'll probably get horrible imaging with the tweets up there. The stock ones have so little power going into them you'd think they're blown out.

 

Yeah I use to wonder what those were too, I was like, those are tweeters, hehe. TIGHT!

 

my cousin has a 1st gen tl and he placed his bostons up there and it was killing him. so he took it out and drilled holes into that plastic piece down at the footing area...next to the door hinges.. and he said it sounded much better down there. somehow, he got 4 rockford power dvc's to fit in the trunk!! and 2 large ppi amps but this should be in the audio board

but yeah, those are tweeters up there. for some reason, those dont work no more after you install an aftermarket head unit.

 

mine (diamond m561 components w/ the HEX series tweets)are up there and they hurt your ears bad.... but it sounds good

 

When I had my first gen, i swapped those tweets with some Infinity Kappas...and it sounds amazing. The acoustics in my first gen were by far the best that I had ever heard..i miss that car

 

dude, where have you been?!?!? sold out on us 1st gens and was never heard again im jk.. its me...mark..the guy who bought your amp? the amp is still working good! it gets hot but thats normal for an amp. i usually keep that middle part of the back seat open so the air can cool down the amp a bit. do you have a system in your "ugly" 2nd gen TL?!

 

Hey man. I'm on here all the time. Just dont post as much as i used to. Just moderate mostly. Glad to hear that the amp is still kicking. You've had it a little over a year now huh? Yeah, I have a system in the new car. Check out my sig...Ohh yeah, I'll have to agree with the comment you made about my ugly car....its really ugly huh.... .....

 

I you wanna use aftermarket tweeters in the dome lights, just make sure you wire them so that you have a separate volume control or L-pads for them. Then you can tweak the volume.

If noone else has explained the reason for their existence, it's to get both front occupants one step closer to a real stereo image. Hard to hear the right channel high frequencies when the passenger's leg is blocking it out...

I'm just glad Acura was the first (I've heard of) to address this in a factory sound system.

 

This is interesting. On The Legends, there's the two rear speakers and tweeters, two front speakers and tweeters. Then, on the dome lights, there a place for two mini-speakers. But ours are actually for the OEM cell phone. Everyone thinks they are speakers when they ask about them in the Legends. I guess Acura took that as a hint and put them in after the Legend years 96+