CERWIN Vega XED693 3-Way Coaxial Speaker Set
INTRODUCTION
Congratulations for purchasing Cerwin Vega Mobile speakers for your car audio system. You have chosen Cerwin Vega Mobile because you deserve the best!
Cerwin Vega Mobile speakers are designed and engineered to reproduce great sound quality for many years of listening enjoyment in your vehicle! We highly recommend that your new speakers be installed by an authorized Cerwin Vega Mobile dealer. Your authorized dealer can professionally assemble/disassemble the interior of your vehicle and set the proper speaker placement for ideal sound quality.
If you decide to install the speakers by yourself, please thoroughly read through this manual before getting started. This manual will help familiarize yourself with these speakers and guide you through the installation process and procedures.
Please contact your local authorized Cerwin Vega Mobile dealer if you have any questions regarding the instructions in this manual. If you require additional assistance, please contact the Cerwin Vega Mobile Technical Support Department during business hours at 213-261-4161.
FEATURES/SPECS
- 275 Watts MAX
- Curvilinear Poly Cone
- Butyl Rubber Surround
- Balanced Piezo Metal Dome .75” CV Tweeter
- Black Coat Stamped Steel Basket
- Signature Cerwin-Vega Sound!
- Hardware
SPECIFICATIONS
INSTALLATION
Tweeter Installation
When flush or surface mounting tweeters, make sure the desired location can accommodate the hole sizes and depth required. The tweeter can also be surface mounted atop the dash, door, or rear deck. Mount cup using the provided hardware, flush mount illustration shown below. The flush mount bezel requires cutting a 1.75 (45mm) round opening. Be sure there is AT LEAST 1 INCH (25.4mm) behind the panel so the tweeter has adequate clearance. Remember when using a hole saw the thickness of the saw teeth will add to the cut diameter. Mount the surface cup at the desired angle with provided screws in the tweeter mounting kit. Route speaker wires through tweeter cup, connect the tweeter to wires, and snap the tweeter into the cup by aligning the notches in the tweeter cup with the notches in the tweeter base. Be careful not to push on the center of the tweeter grill.
Crossover Installation
Install in a well ventilated area whenever possible. If you must install the passive crossovers in the doors due to the use of factory wiring. As you “feed” into the door cavity, ensure that the crossover is installed behind the door panel instead of inside the door itself. This will offer the greatest capacity for avoiding any water damage caused by rain or moisture. Also avoid placing it near factory wiring looms to ensure no radiated noise problems. Connect the input side labeled “AMP” of each passive crossover to the amplifier’s speaker output terminals. Be sure to observe correct polarity for positive and negative terminals. Next, connect the middle terminals labeled “MID” to the midrange speaker. Be sure that the wiring is protected all the way to the terminal and that the wires are secure at both the speaker and passive crossover. Finally, connect the end terminals on the far right hand side labeled “TWT” to the tweeter. Be careful to observe the correct polarity when connecting the tweeter to its lead wires as these are smaller gauge and require care and patience to connect correctly.
Installing the Speakers
Your new Cerwin Vega Mobile series speakers were designed with the flexibility to be installed in multiple locations. However, to ensure the best performance possible, it is important to isolate the front sound waves of the speaker from its rear sound waves. This is done by securely mounting the speaker to a flat surface known as a baffle. Make sure to seal the speaker to ensure there are no air leaks around its frame.
Rear Deck Mounting
There are two primary methods for mounting speakers in the rear deck of a vehicle, top and bottom mounting. Top mounting requires dropping the speakers in through the deck (interior) while bottom mounting secures the speakers from underneath (trunk). Either method requires a good seal around the frame for the best performance.
WARRANTY
Thank you for purchasing a Cerwin Vega Mobile product and we hope to provide you with countless hours of listening enjoyment.
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Limited Warranty (U.S.A)
Cerwin Vega Mobile warrants all of our amplifiers and speakers to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) year.
This warranty is non-transferable and applies only to the original purchaser from an authorized Cerwin Vega Mobile dealer. If service is required and necessary under this warranty due to manufacturing defect or malfunction, then Cerwin Vega Mobile will repair and/or replace defective product with either new or remanufactured like product at no charge at our discretion.
Damage to product caused by the following will not be covered under this warranty: abuse, accident, misuse, neglect, modifications, repairing attempts, seller/installer misrepresentation.
This warranty does not cover any incidental, consequential, or cosmetic damage due to accidents or normal wear and tear, nor does it cover the cost of removing or reinstallation of the product.
Warranty is void if the product’s serial number has been removed, defaced, and/or tampered with.
Warranty Procedure:
We recommend that you contact your Cerwin Vega Mobile authorized dealer where your original purchase was made to initiate all warranty claims. Our authorized dealers can guide you through the warranty procedure to ensure that your claim will be processed in a timely manner. All warranty returns must be accompanied with a proof of purchase (a copy of the original sales receipt) and be shipped freight prepaid to our facility with an RA (Return Authorization) number clearly marked on the outside of the package. Direct returns from consumers or non-authorized dealers will be refused if shipped without a valid RA number authorized by Cerwin Vega Mobile beforehand.
INTERNATIONAL
Products purchased outside of the U.S.A. are covered only by that country’s distributor and not by Cerwin Vega Mobile U.S.A.
Please Ship All Warranty Claims With Pre-Authorized RA Number To: CV&DA Holdings, Inc.
ATTN: Customer Service Department 1225 E. 7th St. Los Angeles, CA 90021 USA
Please Contact Customer Service for Further Warranty Information: U.S.A.
Tel: 213-261-4161 / Fax: 213-947-4767
FAQs
The speakers in the XED693 are 4 ohms. Although it is not listed in the specifications or on the internet, the box is quite clearly designated as such.
Actually, the top of the hard plastic spacer ring that surrounds the speaker’s perimeter is roughly 11mm, or little under 7/16in, higher than the mid-high assembly.
In professional audio, coaxial loudspeakers allow sound from two drivers to emanate from a single source. In comparison to loudspeaker enclosures featuring physically isolated drivers, this feature enables a larger field of listening to a synchronised summation of speaker drivers.
These days, coaxial cables are fairly widespread and may be found in every home. They can be used as speaker cables, TV antennas, modems, cable boxes, and for the transmission of audio and video signals.
Due to their ability to reproduce a wider range of audio frequencies from a single speaker, coaxial speakers are frequently referred to as “full-range” speakers. The drivers in these speakers are identical to those in component speakers, but they have been combined to save space and money.
You generally don’t need a second crossover if your automobile audio system uses coaxial speakers. The frequencies that reach each driver are already filtered by passive crossovers that are already present in full-range speakers. The built-in speaker crossovers should be more than enough, even if you add an amplifier to the mix.
Component speakers and coaxial speakers can be powered by your car radio without the need for an amplifier. However, an amp will enable you to get a much clearer sound without distortion, a louder volume, and power for a subwoofer, allowing you to get the most from your speakers.
If you’re searching for an all-in-one, reasonably priced solution, coaxial speakers are an excellent option. However, because the tweeter and woofer are frequently not as well-matched as separate units, they typically have inferior sound quality than component speakers.
You must take the core conductor wire and attach it to the speaker’s red (or positive) connector. With the other end of the cable in your hands, attach it to the identical colour port on your receiver or amplifier.
There is no need to play a speaker at half power or low volumes for a lengthy period of time in order to facilitate or ease into this, even if it is true that the suspension of a speaker will loosen up with time.
A coaxial speaker, to put it simply, combines a woofer and a tweeter into one component. There is an additional midrange driver in the three-way variant. On a pole that extends to the centre, the tweeter and midrange speaker are mounted. They now have access to the entire audio spectrum in a little package.
Coaxial speakers are able to have a complete 2-way system in only a single installation, unlike component speakers, which must mount everything separately due to their compartmentalised design. Because of how simple they are to install, coaxial speakers are able to remain affordable. The time and labour saved throughout this process also contributes to this.
The sound produced by component speakers is much clearer, more adaptable, and frequently louder than that of coaxial speakers.
A loudspeaker with the high-frequency reproducer mounted in the middle of the low-frequency reproducer and along its axis (such as a high-frequency horn in a paper cone speaker
Coaxial speakers, or numerous speakers incorporated into one speaker assembly, are 2-way speakers located on the same “axis.” The majority of coaxial speakers have a separate tweeter with crossover and a separate woofer cone for better sound quality than a typical single cone speaker.
The back of the car is often where coaxial speakers are located.
